Life

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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We are but visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex, not that which never has divined it.

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It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road. A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests, at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them, that is nothing but a phrase, they come to you.

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And then the final great tragedy of the distorted personality is the fact that when one fails to harness this instinct, he ends up trying to push others down in order to push himself up. And whenever you do that, you engage in some of the most vicious activities. You will spread evil, vicious, lying gossip on people, because you are trying to pull them down in order to push yourself up. And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.