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Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person read more
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only read more
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
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.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
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.
