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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if read more
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves read more
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
