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“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Awareness of limited time is turned into a reason to choose more wisely rather than merely fear mortality.
Source note: Psalm 90:12 in the King James Version.
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“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
Change is treated as the condition of the world, while our experience of life is shaped by judgment.
Source note: Meditations, Book IV, in George Long’s translation.
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“While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”
Limited time turns character into a present-tense responsibility rather than a future intention.
Source note: Meditations, Book IV, in George Long’s translation.
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”
The move to the woods is a deliberate experiment in stripping away distraction and paying closer attention to living.
Source note: Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
Mortality cannot be eliminated, so the practical answer is to make conscious use of the finite span between beginning and end.
Source note: Soliloquies in England, “War Shrines”; the sentence follows a contrast between strained worldliness and a more festive acceptance of life.
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“The mind is its own place.”
Voice: Poetic speaker · Satan
The statement emphasizes how mental framing can alter the experience of circumstances, for good or ill.
Source note: Paradise Lost, Book I; the fuller sentence continues with heaven and hell as states the mind can make.