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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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.
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a read more
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - read more
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
