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What does it mean?
Everything in life has a price, whether you change things or leave them as they are.
In plain terms
Everything has a price, including keeping things the same.
What can you take from it?
Accept that all choices involve costs.

Where it applies

  • decision making
  • life philosophy
  • planning

Putting it to work

  • weigh costs before acting
  • accept tradeoffs

Questions to consider

  • What is the price of inaction?
  • How do you weigh life's costs?

Another view

Some things like health have intrinsic value beyond price.

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