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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because read more
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.
Life is an incurable disease.
Life is an incurable disease.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that read more
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning read more
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
