The Cost of a Thing — Henry David Thoreau Quote Journal

You wrote down where last week actually went. Most of it went to somebody else's priorities.

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it…"
— Henry David Thoreau
Walden, 1854, from the chapter "Economy." We check every line against a primary source.

Thoreau measured the price of everything in life spent. Once you see it that way, a lot of things stop being worth it.

Track the hours. Keep the ones that count.

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