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There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is �Where am I going?� and the 2nd is �Who will go with me?� If you ever get these questions in the wrong order , you are in trouble.�
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
The Ethics of Ambiguity
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
If I raised the alarm at being alive, voiceless and hard they would drag me away since they drag away those who depart the possible world, the exceptional being is dragged away, the screaming being.
The Passion According to G.H.
When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
The Old Man and the Sea
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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