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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
The troubles of age were intended to wean us gradually from our fondness of life the nearer we approach to the end.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.
We're the blessed ones who get to say we're doing what we dream of doing.
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.