Some of the best advice and wisdom I know:
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"Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do. Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might" -Ecclesiastes Chapter 9:7-10
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"Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar .... Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world."
"Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life."
-Vladimir Nabokov, "The Gods"
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Whatever professors of philosophy take up nowadays tends to become scholastic, and the rigor of the scholastics is rigor mortis. -Walter Kaufmann, "Critique of Philosophy and Religion"
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
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"There is in this world beauty and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful, neither to the one nor the other." - Albert Camus
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