Use it or lose it.

By John on Jun 15, 2006 filed in Deep Thoughts

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.??? –Eleanor Roosevelt

I guess the old adage of “use it or lose it” can be part of what Mrs. Roosevelt is talking about, but that can just mean getting in your walk each day. I think, based on her life of service and social responsibility, Eleanor was reminding us that we have to do something that makes the world better.

This is a challenge here. The definition of contributing is, to give or supply in common with others.” This seems to intimate a message of working in community with others to bring about a greater good.

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Table of contents for Deep Thoughts

  1. Deep Thoughts: The Series
  2. The Advantages of Heaven and Hell
  3. An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  4. Emerson Explains Karma
  5. Choose The Way Of Life
  6. Honesty Pushes You Forward
  7. Make the Circumstances You Want
  8. The Great Opportunity Is Where You Are
  9. The Golden Opportunity Is In Yourself Alone
  10. The Cure For All The Ills And Wrongs
  11. Life in Abundance
  12. Imagination and Knowledge
  13. Power Is An End
  14. Wilderness
  15. The Immortal Flow of Energy
  16. The Price of Success
  17. A Drop In the Ocean
  18. Basic Decency and Goodness
  19. Respecting Nature
  20. Discovering The Limits of the Possible.
  21. We Must Sail
  22. The Journey Matters
  23. Never Haste to Day’s End
  24. A Heart Full of Grace
  25. The Mysterious, Source of All True Art and Science
  26. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity
  27. To Help
  28. Use it or lose it.
  29. Seek help first for a friend.
  30. Your Legacy?
  31. The Defeat of Night by Sunrise

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