“The dead outnumber the living…14 to 1. And we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind, at our own peril.”
- Niall Ferguson
“Give your life to something larger than yourself and your own pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature. Happiness lies this way, and it beats hollow pleasure.”
- Lee Gutkind.
When we trade burning out for not burning at all, we disregard the latent potential that we ALL have capacity for.
Don’t let your flame go out entirely. Never get to zero. You’re better than that.