“Your life is not lying in wait in the future like a wild animal or some ominous destiny. Nor is it hidden in the heavens, like a paradise or promise. Nor is it shut up in the cave or the prison of your past. It is here and now; it is what you live and [...]
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“Those who are contented and at ease with the moment, those who live in accord with the course of Nature, cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. That’s what the ancients called release from bondage.” - Chuang-Tzu
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“A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear, while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.” - Seneca
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“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come.” -
Seneca
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“What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, or of being unhappy now just because you were then? […] When troubles come to an end, the natural thing is to be glad.” - Seneca
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“Projecting our thoughts far ahead of us, instead of adapting ourselves to the present, is cause of fear. Foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is also a curse.” - Seneca
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“Everything that will happen belongs to the domain of the uncertain. Live now.” - Seneca
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“Believe each day that has dawned is your last, and some hour for which you haven’t been expecting will prove lovely.” - Horace
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“Overlook what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows.” - Horace
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“We must heal our misfortunes by the grateful recollection of what has been and by the recognition that it is impossible to make undone what has been done.” - Epicurus
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“The life of the folly is empty of gratitude, full of anxiety, all of it focused in the ghosts of the future.” - Epicurus
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“What difference does it make what your position in life is, if you dislike it yourself?” - Seneca
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“Happiness is an ideal of the imagination, not of reason.” - Immanuel Kant
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“Everything hangs on one’s thinking. […] A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.” - Seneca
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“Friendship redoubles joys and cut grieves in halves.” - Francis Bacon
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“Of all the heavenly treasures that mortal men commend, what trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?” - N. Grimald
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“Hell is all in the word solitude.” - Victor Hugo
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“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter an immortal one.” - Epicurus
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“Of all the means which wisdom gives us to ensure happiness throughout ours lives, by far the most important is friendship.” - Epicurus
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“The whole world offers a common house to those who prize friendship: the Earth.” - Epicurist saying
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“Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things of life.” - Aristotle
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“Friendship is one soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
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“Friendship is a virtue, and the most necessary thing.” - Aristotle
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“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.” - Aristotle
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“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.” - Mother Teresa
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“The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. It results from the profound interdependence we all share with one another.” - Dalai Lama
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“No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character is in the subjective nature of the mind.” - Dalai Lama
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“Life is sown with miracles that only people who love can wait for.” - Marcel Proust
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“The two wings of our souls, immune to any gust of wind, are true love and faith.” - Stanislas-Xavier Touchet (attributed)
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“Love is the great poetry in the prosaic modern world.” - E. Morin
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“Love makes us tolerate destiny, and makes us love life.” - E. Morin
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“We human beings are animals dependant on love.” - Humberto Maturama
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“It is love which keeps us alive, since it alone makes life loveable. It is love which saves; it is therefore love which must be saved.” - Andre Comte-Sponville
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“Happiness is to be happy in love, unhappiness is to be unhappy in love, or to have no love at all.” - Andre Comte-Sponville
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“Whether life is or is not worth the pain of being lived, or, rather, whether it is worth the pain and the pleasure of being live depends, first and foremost on one’s capacity for love.” - Andre Comte-Sponville
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“We cannot but desire truth and happiness, but we are incapable of certainty or happiness.” - Blaise Pascal
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“We are never as happy or unhappy as we imagine.” - Rochefoucauld
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“Without poets and artists, men would rapidly succumb to the monotony of nature.” - Guillaume Apollinaire
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“For people of feeling, the aim of the arts is to conjure away the burden of bitterness.” - Gustav Flaubert
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“I try to treat whomever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.” - Dalai Lama
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“Religious faith, as the faith in an idea, is a profound strength that helps to support against the cruelty of the world.” - E. Morin
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“Religion gives safety, confidence and hope to the human spirit; the spirit gains the certainty of a saving truth that repeals the corrosion of doubt.” - E. Morin
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“The knowledge of man’s misery without that of God causes despair.” - Blaise Pascal
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“Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.” - Dalai Lama
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“The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease.” - Dalai Lama
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“We should devote our most serious efforts to bringing about mental peace. From my own limited experience, I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquillity comes from the development of love and compassion.” - Dalai Lama
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“The key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities.” - Dalai Lama
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“In Tibet we say that many illnesses can be cured by the one medicine of love and compassion. These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and our need for them lies at the very core of our being.” - Dalai Lama
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“Friendship dances around the world, proclaiming to us all to rouse ourselves to give thanks.” - Epicurus
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“There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.” - George Sand
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