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 real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was read more
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Life is an incurable disease.
Life is an incurable disease.
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you read more
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance read more
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, read more
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
