You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile, p. 265, 2012
Antifragile, p. 265, 2012
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination… and a little dough.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
The quality of your life is directly related to how well you regulate your internal state.
The attempt to develop a sense of humour and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
The first half of life is directed toward the object, the second half toward the subject.
Don’t be mean online. Life is too short.
The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.
Don’t sleepwalk through life. Find something that you really enjoy doing, if you can do it. Not everybody is lucky enough to be able to find that, but it ought to be your goal.
There are no laughs in life unless you take them yourself.
Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
Life is not fair. It never was, it isn't now, and it won't ever be.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
To fall asleep you first pretend to be asleep. That's how everything in life works.
Modern man is too busy to think about the meaning of life. We are constantly running, constantly consuming, constantly distracting ourselves from the quiet voice inside us that asks: Why are we here?
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may perhaps be the very best thing about it.
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.
I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.
Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.
My life has been a product of compound interest. Nothing more. Nothing less. And nothing brilliant.
Life is not fair. It never was, it isn't now, and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you're a victim.
A life, whose purpose is money, is death.
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn’t belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it’s life itself defending itself.
You cannot describe passion; you can only live it.
Refusing to love for fear of suffering is like refusing to live for fear of dying.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
If you’ve never eaten while crying, you don’t know what life tastes like.
It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just want to live while I’m alive.
Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize.
Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
Only he deserves freedom and life who daily conquers them anew.
We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Life begins where fear ends.
Very early in my life it was too late.
The real flex is living a soft life after surviving hard things.
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.