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The world around us is filled with danger. Filled with things trying to make our lives miserable. It’s nothing personal. It’s just the way it is.
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25 |
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No one is more miserable than the person who has made cop-outs and cowardice their go-to decision.
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129 |
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Whatever you’re doing, keep it short, fast, and direct… Most people don’t have time to waste… why make everyone miserable by being unnecessarily chatty?
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061 |
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Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.
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116 |
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…our customary focus on things temporal and material is the major cause of human misery, because it distracts us from attending to timeless, formless true reality.
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209 |
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When you focus on the shortcomings in your life, drag your feet, and belabor your bad habits and neuroses, you see nothing but your own misery.
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003 |
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How have so many humans reached the point where they accept that even miserable, unnecessary work is actually morally superior to no work at all?
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220 |
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…the belief that what ultimately motivates human beings has always been… the pursuit of wealth, power, comforts and pleasure, has always and must always be complemented by a doctrine of work as self-sacrifice, as valuable precisely because it is the place of misery, sadism, emptiness, and despair.
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244 |
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Perennial dissatisfaction is the first step on the path to misery.
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308 |
