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The Choice
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What happened can never be forgotten and can never be changed. But over time I learned that I can choose how to respond to the past. I can be miserable, or I can be hopeful—I can be depressed, or I can be happy. We always have that choice,
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“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a key in his soul. He didn’t understand life. He had no conception of why he had been born into the world. As he saw it, anyone to whose lot fell this adventure, the purpose of which was unknown but the end of which was annihilation, that person was absolved from all responsibility and had the right to do as he pleased—for example, to lie full length in the street and begin to moan without any reason—without deserving the slightest censure. But precisely because he considered his life as a whole an incomprehensible thing, he understood its little details individually—every person without exception, every elevated and lowly point of view, every concept—and those he assimilated at once.”
― Kornel Esti
― Kornel Esti
“Our painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.”
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
― The Choice: Embrace the Possible
“The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Ő nem értette az életet. Fogalma sem volt, mért született erre a világra.Úgy gondolkozott, hogy akinek részévé jutott ez az ismeretlen célú kaland, melynek vége a megsemmisülés, az minden felelősség alól föl van mentve s jogában áll, hogy azt tegye, amit akar, például végigfeküdhet a kocsiúton és minden ok nélkül elkezdhet jajgatni, anélkül, hogy különösebb megrovást érdemelne. De éppen mert az életet a maga egészében értelmetlenségnek tartotta, a kis részeit külön-külön mind megértette, minden embert kivétel nélkül, minden magasztos és aljas szempontot, minden elméletet s ezeket azonnal magáévá is tette. Ha valaki öt percig beszél neki okosan, hogy térjen át a mohamedán-hitre, ő áttér rá, föltéve, hogy megkímélik a cselekvés nyűgétől, a szaván fogják és nem adnak neki időt, hogy később mégis visszatáncoljon.Így élni a nagy esztelenségben a kisebb esztelenségek közepette, véleménye szerint nem is oly ostobaság, sőt talán a leghelyesebb, a legstílusosabb életmód.”
― Kornél Esti
― Kornél Esti
“A kávéház az újságíró temploma.”
― Kornél Esti
― Kornél Esti
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