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Life
17 quotes
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
It's good to have people in your life who you don't want to disappoint.
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, it is to be useful.
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
The long-term success of a relationship depends far more on avoiding the negative than on seeking the positive.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night—there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.