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, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to read more
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life read more
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come read more
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own read more
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.
Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.
