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Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.
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spiritual
values-in-life
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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post-modernism
values-in-life
modernity
values
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.
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values-in-life
parting
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
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self-value
values-in-life
thought-provoking
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Richard P. Feynman |
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... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret... When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me...
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values-in-life
regret
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Khaled Hosseini |
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Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.
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values-in-life
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Barbara Taylor Bradford |
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The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees
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life
values-in-life
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Sue Monk Kidd |