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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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They read more
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued read more
Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
