Ancient German Philosophers' Life Lessons Men Learn Too Late In Life

he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how health so far outweighs all other blessings of life better truly healthy beggar is happier than a sick King the most educated person is the simplest one the busier we are the more acutely we feel that we live the more conscious we are of life prayers do not change the world but prayers change people and people change the world rules for happiness something to do someone to love something to hope for if you love something so much let it go if it comes back it was meant to be if it doesn't it never was the most harmful thing is wanting to avoid mistakes happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory give a person everything that he desires and at the same moment he will feel that this is not everything we are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without an optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere while a pessimist sees only the red stop light the truly wise person is colorblind who reflects too much will accomplish little eventually All Things fall into place until then laugh at the confusion live for the moments and know everything happens for a reason if we suspect that a man is lying we should pretend to believe him for then he becomes bold and assured lies more vigorously and is unmasked the most spiritual people experienced by far the most painful tragedies but this is precisely why they honor life because it provides them with their greatest adversities at 20. everyone has the face that God gave them at 40 the face that life gave them and at 60. the face they earned the lack of young men is that they think they are more happy or unhappy than they really are wealth is like seawater the more we drink the thirstier we become and the same is true of Fame whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor an evil person cannot be happy for being alone with himself he remains alone with the villain happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it the results of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship but on whether or not it keeps a true course [Music] you should be careful not to form a very favorable opinion about a person at first acquaintance otherwise in most cases you will have to be disappointed [Music] many people know they are unhappy but even more people don't know they are happy the more kind a person is the less he notices the bad in people if you own something you cannot give away then you don't own it it owns you hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man the future comes slowly the present flies and the past stands still forever he who cannot obey himself will be commanded that is the nature of living creatures to become what one is one must not have the faintest notion what one is in the hopes of reaching the moon men failed to see the flowers that Blossom at their feet no one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life no one but yourself alone to live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering that which does not kill us makes us stronger if you punish a child for what is bad and reward for what is good then he will do good for the sake of profit the clever are not so much looking for loneliness as they avoid the fuss created by fools the greatest of Follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness there is no such thing as chance and what seems to us more accidents Springs from the deepest source of Destiny willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see the first 40 years of life gives us the text the next 30 Supply the commentary on it the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently it is not thoughts that need to be taught but thinking sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called an at death and the higher the rate of interest and more regularly it is paid the further the date of redemption is postponed respond to critiques with accomplishments from the point of view of Youth life is an endless future from the point of view of old age it is a very short past don't tell your friend what your enemy shouldn't know if they gossip about you it means that you are enough not only for yourself but also for others an intelligent person always hides three things about himself his weaknesses his sources of wisdom and his true aspirations a man can be himself only so long as he is alone and if he does not love solitude he will not love freedom for it is only when he is alone that he is really free the reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men we can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals The Secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live Dangerously a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial the advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time it is in the treatment of Trifles that a person shows what they are

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Published: Thu Jul 13 2023