“...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.”
― Nadja
― Nadja
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
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