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“Most people lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
This quote is often attributed to US naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau, who in fact wrote in his 1954 book
Walden, “
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
Saba Karim Khan, an instructor of social science at NYU Abu Dhabi, first heard the quote, or in this instance, varnished misquote, uttered by a guest speaker during a lecture on mindfulness in November 2017. The speaker, the headmaster of a school in the UK, asked the audience to think about what their song was and to share it with the person sitting next them. “It felt quite challenging to conjure up something consequential at that moment,” Khan tells
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