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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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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.
