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...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life... ↗


— Daniel Defoe


#philosophy-of-life #diet

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin ↗


— Benny Bellamacina


#life #love #philosophy #quote #wisdom

we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are. ↗


— Tahereh Mafi


#writing-philosophy #writing-process #dreams

We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now. ↗


— Thich Nhat Hanh


#philosophy #business

If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up! ↗


— Benny Bellamacina


#life #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins... ↗


— T. Rafael Cimino


#obama #political-philosophy #politicians #politics #religion

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling. ↗


— Kaiden Blake


#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #philosophy

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone. ↗


— Epictetus


#humility #philosophy #alone

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture. ↗


— Ayn Rand


#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #goals

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. ↗


— Mahmoud Darwish


#philosophy-of-life #poetry-quotes #life






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