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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one’s life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to...
I love life—that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life’s achievement.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe.
From now on I will live in a state of joyous expectation.
It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages. . . . We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed. . . to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short, to be alive.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
