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The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
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.
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time read more
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
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.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of read more
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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.
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
