“A brief period of organised effort and, at the end, death, is of more vital usefulness today, than a futile doing of the things a man feels like doing in a leisurely way, and then meandering feebly down the years.”
~ Alice A. Bailey, 1880-1949, Theosophist and Author on Esoteric Spirituality
Using more concise modern language, I would word the above more like the following: “A brief period of organised effort, followed by death, is of more vital usefulness than meandering feebly down the years doing whatever futile things one desires.” ~ Azure Seer