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.
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of read more
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -Pericles.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world read more
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for read more
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too read more
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
