Diane Ackerman: Living

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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.”

Diane Ackerman

As quoted in Meditations for Women Who Do Too (1991) by Anne Wilson Schaef

Motivational , Deep , Happy , Life

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

Diane Ackerman
Life , Memory

“So much of our life passes in a comfortable blur. Living on the senses requires an easily triggered sense of marvel, a little extra energy, and most people are lazy about life. Life is something that happens to them while they wait for death.”

Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses

Postscript (p. 305)
A Natural History of the Senses (1990)

Waiting , People , Sense , Life

“That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on.”

Diane Ackerman book A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 5 “Vision” (p. 256)

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