“we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means. Nevertheless, every man desires to reach old age; in other words, a state of life of which it may be said: "It is bad to-day, and it will be worse to-morrow; and so on till the worst of all." If”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
“In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.”
― Walking
― Walking
“If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking. —George S. Patton Jr.”
― Guardian Angel: Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force
― Guardian Angel: Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force
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