Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to read more

Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to love it while you have it...

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

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.

Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.

Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.