This Quote Irks Me

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
―Henry David Thoreau

Okay… I don’t know why… Maybe it’s the mood I’m in. But this quote irks me. And I’m totally taking this quote out of context, for sure! Because, as you can see in the first comment below this post where a commenter explains the origin of the words,this quote means something much deeper than the few words presented here. But this is what we do, right? We find little snippets of inspiration (or not)an...