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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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if read more
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
