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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 |
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…the easiest and most obvious path to greater time affluence is to deliberately choose to spend more time on activities that bring you joy, and less time on activities that bring you misery.
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037 |
