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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
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"That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before."
"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
"For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo."
"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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