A good book gets better at the second reading.
A great book at the third.
Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Hurrah!
“Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant.”
— Unknown.
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Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
Seneca: “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
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Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.
— Anthony De Mello
Heraclitus would shed tears whenever he went out in public-Democritus laughed. One saw the whole as a parade of miseries, the other of follies.
And so, we should take a lighter view of things and bear them with an easy spirit, for it is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.
— Seneca (On the Tranquility of Mind 15.2)
Just because we are light footed in this journey of life, people think of us as frivolous, which is not the case …
Life should be a … There should be happiness and cheer and lightness of being, no?
What else we here for?
— Ranveer Singh (KWK S07E01)
“I’m thankful for my struggle for without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.”
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“Once you’ve taken a few punches and realize you’re not made of glass, you don’t feel alive unless…”
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Don’t let your struggle become your identity.”