It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste is like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, then to die daily in the sick-room.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Spend health freely rather than hoarding it and wasting life.
- In plain terms
- Live fully now instead of worrying too much about health.
- What can you take from it?
- Use health to live fully.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How much should you risk for fun?
- When is health too much priority?
Another view
Neglecting health can end your ability to enjoy life.
More from Robert Louis Stevenson
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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