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The Contemplative Life Is Often Miserable. One Must Act More, Think Less, And Not Watch Oneself Live.
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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less,
and not watch oneself live.
-- Nicolas Chamford
Related:
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable
he damages of time and injustices of men. -- Nicolas Chamfo...
Eat less and chew well. Ride less and walk often. Have fewer clothes and launder often.
Worry less and work harder. Waste less time, and continue to learn....
The more often a person feels, and fails to act, the less he will be able to act, and in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
-- C. S. Lewi...
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense, it is the life of the spider. -- Jonathan Swif
Many people go throughout life committing partial suicide- destroying their talents, energies, creative qualities.
Indeed, to learn how to be good to oneself is often more difficult than to learn how to be good to others....
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one
And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all....
I really would not be so bothered by people who speak out what they think, if before they spoke out, they actually did think.
This is one of the main problems with a democracy....
One must never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than, "Watch this!
(Keep 'em guessing.) -- The Third Commandment of Frisbee -- Dan Roddick...
The less men think the more they talk. MONTESQUIEV