#life

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #god #life #live #misfortune

Doing well in life is like going up and down stairs. Its easier to go down but harder to go up. ↗

— Kimber Simchayof

#experience

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others. ↗

— Michael J. Sandel

#good-life #greater-good #individuals #justice #laws

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#past-experiences #experience

-Mary: Il sesso senza amore è un'esperienza vuota! -Isaac: Beh, ma tra le esperienze vuote è una delle migliori. ↗

— Woody Allen

#life-experience #sex #experience

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#ignorance #life #parameters #experience

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happened. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#experience

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#life

One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time. ↗

— Andrew Levkoff

#life-experience #life-lessons #experience

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#life-experience #experience