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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I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
Life is made up of interruptions.
Life is made up of interruptions.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
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Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
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