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At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can’t control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
I’m a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
“What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.”
“Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.”
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
“The brave don’t live forever but the cautious don’t live at all. The only thing that’s truly terrifying is the unlived life.”
“Everything that irritates you about others can lead you to an understanding about yourself.”
“Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.”
“But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there’s no release date on that.”
“I like it, though, because when I do get it, I get it way down at that place where it hurts but feels better because you feel it, something you couldn’t feel before reading it, that makes you feel less alone.”
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe”
“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
“The grief that does not speak
whispers over the fraught heart
and bids it break.”
“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable”
Proud Leftie, Progressive, Sober, Buddhist, Pro-Choice, Grateful, Pro-Union, Atheist, Pro-Assisted Suicide, Uber-Passionate Politico