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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must!
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must!
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because read more
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All read more
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning read more
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals read more
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to read more
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
