Quotes: Lifestyle

Lifestyle 313 A life of adventure is better than a life that simply exists to prolong life. "For surely the love of living is stronger in an Alpine climber roping over a peril, or a hunter riding merrily at a stiff fence, than in a creature who lives upon a diet and walks a measured distance in the interest of his constitution." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 314 Intelligence recognizes that life is precarious and is not at all afraid of it. "...so it is the first part of intelligence to recognize our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be not at all abashed before the fact." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 314 Prudence grows into a life afraid to take chances. "So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts...begins to shrink spiritually...develops a fancy for parlors with a regulated temperature...." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 314 Concern for scruples produces a life that stands still. "...the scruple-monger ends by standing stock-still." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 315 It is better to live and die than to be afraid of death daily in a sick room. "It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick room." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 316 A cheerful heart leaves a legacy of hope for mankind. "Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 316 It is wonderful to die in the midst of great plans. "And even if death catch people, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous foundations, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful language, they should be at once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination?...when the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods love die young, I cannot help believing they had this sort of death also in their eye...surely, at whatever age, it overtake the man, this is to die young...in the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side...full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land." Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex.” 1878. Gross, ed. Essays.

Lifestyle 190 They worked out on their running machine, hoping to live forever. Clarice and Carl went running on their running machine upstairs…training to live forever. DeLillo, Underworld.