Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

Carew Papritz
About This Quote

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive is a simple yet powerful phrase that captures the essence of being alive in the context of being fully awake. In this quote, Nelson Mandela acknowledges that our time is limited and so we should spend every moment of it wisely. This quote illustrates how Nelson Mandela was a wise man by his own definition of wisdom, in that he knew how to live every second of his life in a way that made him happy.

Source: The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

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