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 hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life read more
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is read more
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
