The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn't sound right.""Hey, Sol," she said, her tone getting serious for a second. "Those are two things about you out of a million. Don't box yourself in. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
At any given moment, your circumstances can change. You may not be where you want to be right now. You may not even be doing what you prefer to do. But, if you change your way of thinking and realize that you have all the opportunities available to you just like each one of us. You can begin to focus on what you want to achieve and make it happen Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I did, of course, on both counts, and started going out with the boy I lost my virginity to - all of it. He lost his to me too, except that neither of us felt we had lost anything - just discovered the meaning of life and love and everything else unnecessary in between. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>