"None are so old as those who
have outlived enthusiasm."
American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, transcendentalist.
If you can't get up enough blood pressure to vigorously shout
"I'm not old," well, then……
One way to keep your personal pot of enthusiasm on the boil
is to work real hard at doing the things you want to do, and not doing the
other things…I think no one is so busy that she can't decline to do some
unappealing or unhealthy or distasteful thing.
I've read Thoreau's Walden and his Civil Disobedience, the first with a reluctant awareness that it
wasn't that interesting and the last with gusto, more or less the way Gandhi and
Dr. King did….
A minor note to you who are Thoreau
fans: this prolific writer and careful thinker didn't pronounce his name like
this: Thor-oh' with the accent on the
second syllable
He pronounced it like this: Thor'-oh with the accent on the first syllable
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