Sentence examples for live deliberately from inspiring English sources

In the 1840s, Thoreau took to the woods to "live deliberately".

Few things will thwart your plans to live deliberately faster than those messy, confounding surprises known as other people.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately," he explained, "to front only the essential facts of life".

June 27th "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately... and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived".

Since Bill McKibben published "The End of Nature" in 1989, those writers wishing to live deliberately were as likely to seek the marrow of life on the farm or in a vacant city lot as in the woods.

Like many canonized works, it is more revered than read, so it exists for most people only as a dim impression retained from adolescence or as the source of a few famous lines: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately".

That's the opposite of "living deliberately".

Still, if not precisely an outsider artist, Zink was, for a very long time, an outsider: unknown, unpublished, living deliberately far from the mainstream and looking at it with the sharply angled vision that such a position affords.

It means living deliberately and authentically, and you can learn how.

It teaches us two important points about life: the necessity of living with the bad to get the good and the secret formula for happiness, living deliberately.

For his high-demand class "Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints, and the Contemplative Life," students spend a month of the semester in silence, refraining from any electronic communications and limiting their spending to $50 a week.