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“If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how,” Nietzsche wrote.
Nietzsche argued that suffering is a good thing that should be leaned into, embraced, and used as fuel toward the amassing of strength and psychological power.
Every decision you’ve made was the best and only decision you could’ve made at the time with the information you had and the state of mind you were in.
And every condition of life that either these decisions led to or that are fundamental to life in general, you have no control over and cannot change.
Resenting or fighting against what has happened to you or because of you only brings additional misery into the now,
is to fall in love with what you are actually experiencing right now,
Amor fati is a sentiment of willingness to accept at last the way things have gone and will go, to love a life that tries in almost every moment to make you hate it, and to still stare back at it and say yes, I love it. What’s scarier than an opponent who smiles while being beaten?
even life is hard just say yes, i love it
On the Heights of Despair,
book reco
The Trouble with Being Born,
book reco
comforting notion that “[We are] simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
nihilism idea
The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.
book reco.
One can only wonder how many individuals like Kafka have walked and continue to walk this earth, completely disconnected or restricted from ever seeing who they really are or could be.
How many Kafkas have lived and died without ever sharing their voice with the world;
The Trial,
book reo
Metamorphosis,
If we are not made with a specific purpose prior to existence, we create our purpose through our existence.
we are born unknowingly thus we create our own purpose
Even choosing to not choose is still a choice.
We become angry about everything because we refuse to let ourselves be sad about some things.
great artists and writers aren’t popular because they say something no one has thought of or experienced before, but because they say something that most of us have but weren’t sure we were right in doing so.
It can help us attempt to live in the spirit of individuality, to raise the sail of one’s own ship and use the unknowable force of the wind, always moving forward, finding beauty in the vastness that surrounds us, and creating our self anew.
personal awareness where one identifies explicitly and knowingly with themselves.
The Denial of Death,
book reco
When it comes to life and death, there are really only two certainties: you will die, but you are alive now.
you will die but you are alive now
To fully enjoy the present moment as often as you can and in as many ways as you can, to fall in love with a person, a thing, a moment, yourself, to make the most of everything despite knowing that you will lose it all to nothing, is more than enough heroism.
What’s worse than living a life knowing that one will die is living a life knowing that one will die without having lived as many moments as one can properly relishing in the fact that they have not yet died.
At some point, you will do everything for the last time. You will see your last sunset; you will taste your last bite of food; you will enjoy your last laugh; you will see everyone you know one last time; you will do anything for the last time; you will be you for the last time. If there is nothing specific to be do...
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At the opposite end of the spectrum,
And perhaps, as such, we should try our best to be careful of what we take seriously, and what we don’t.
your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.
“We work too hard. We try too hard. Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there.
At least creatively, we often perform at our best when we are ourselves, natural and honest, attending to who we really are and what we really want to say or do,
The human project is a continuous cycle of essentially trying the same things over and over and expecting different results. Madness is not the exception, it is the norm.
the Pursuit of Wonder YouTube channel,
