#eat

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

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The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#anyone #becomes #bureaucracy #care #expensive

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#favors #greater #ingratitude #medium #most

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#death #i #look #morning #necessary

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#great man #man #never #same #time

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #goodness #grand #great #great man

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death can lead to the realization that death is fearful only to the extent to which one identifies with the body. With the aid of the body contemplations one can come to realize the true [impermanent] nature of the body and thereby overcome one's attachment to it. Being free from attachment to the body, one will be freed from any fear of physical death. ↗

— Anālayo

#death #detachment #meditation #sutra #death