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 like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All read more
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there read more
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
