The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude
3) But how strange it is "You dream of years ahead without knowing what will happen seconds later." We are drying. That's why we can't live in the moment, we get lost in the flow. This is the "after life" thing. And I've been paying attention to this event since it was the sadness of an unfinished conversation inside me. "One day you will eat your last meal, smell your last flower, hug a friend for the last time. You won't know it's the last time. So, you have to do everything you love with passion. You should treasure your remaining years, because there is no more." Our aim is to always leave good impressions and not break hearts. To live the moment in the best way, to make the other party feel the feeling of worth and to experience this feeling by them.
She managed to appear both younger and older than her years. It was the way she carried herself, like she’d seen it all—the good, the bad, the downright ugly—and still believed in goodness.
It was as stupid as it was admirable.
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Our lives contain so much more bad than good in part because of a series of empirical differences between bad things and good things. For example, the most intense pleasures are short-lived, whereas the worst pains can be much more enduring. Orgasms, for example, pass quickly. Gastronomic pleasures last a bit longer, but even if the pleasure of good food is protracted, it lasts no more than a few hours. Severe pains can endure for days, months, and years.
While it's difficult for a politician to tell parents that their son died for no good reason, it is far more painful for parents to say this to themselves - and it is even harder for the victims. A crippled soldier who lost his legs would rather tell himself, 'I sacrificed myself for the glory of the eternal Italian nation!' than 'I lost my leg because I was stupid enough to believe self-serving politicians.' It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering.
Priests discovered this principle thousands of years ago. It underlies numerous religious ceremonies and commandments. Of you want to make people believe in imaginary entities such as gods and nations, you should make them sacrifice something valuable.
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The seven of us had survived three yearly “purges” because we were each somehow indispensable to the playing company. In the course of four years we were transformed from a rabble of bit players to a small, meticulously trained dramatic troupe. Some of our theatrical assets were obvious: Richard was pure power, six foot three and carved from
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