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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Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Life is an incurable disease.
Life is an incurable disease.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as read more
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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.
My life has been a series of emergencies.
My life has been a series of emergencies.
