'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Time is only valuable if it is spent enriching life through experience, work, or emotion.
- In plain terms
- Time is wasted if you do not live fully with experience or effort.
- What can you take from it?
- Use time to enrich life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are you living fully?
- What enriches your time?
Another view
Rest and inactivity also have value beyond active enrichment.
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