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Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we ta...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Be not virtuous beyond your powers! And seek nothing from yourselves opposed to probability!...Shy, ...

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In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solel...

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(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

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Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect...

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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

A kind of memory that tells usthat what we're now striving for was oncenearer and truer and attached...

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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be...

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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...

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Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that...

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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anyt...

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All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as ...

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Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation

You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

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You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, g...

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