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Arthur Schopenhauer

"What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom."

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"What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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