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We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires.
— Apr 29, 2017 01:13PM
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رسیدم به اونجایی که می گه اگه کسی بهت فحش داد چکارش کنی
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— May 02, 2017 06:20AM
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Mohammad
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If we cannot resist pleasures, we will end up playing, Marcus says, the role of slave, “twitching puppet wise at every pull of self-interest,” and we will spend our life “ever grumbling at today or lamenting over tomorrow.” To avoid this fate, we must take care to prevent pains and pleasures from overwhelming our rational capacity. We must learn, as Marcus puts it, to “resist the murmurs of the flesh.”
— Apr 30, 2017 06:05PM
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"You will someday eat your last meal, and soon thereafter you will take your last breath"
how liberating ...
— Apr 29, 2017 01:59PM
how liberating ...
Mohammad
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There is, in other words, a danger that when you are on your deathbed, you will look back and realize that you wasted your one chance at living. Instead of spending your life pursuing something genuinely valuable, you squandered it because you allowed yourself to be distracted by the various baubles life has to offer.
— Apr 28, 2017 12:49PM
