“Our whole life it is the present and the present alone that we actually possess.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: present
“A man should avoid being led by the phantoms of his imaginary nothing.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: present
“A man should never let himself be master by the impressions of this moment or indeed the outward appearances at all.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: present
“Therefore we should always be glad of it and give it the welcome it deserves, and enjoy every hour that is bearable by its freedom from pain and annoyance with a full consciousness of its value.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: present
“For the less the will is excited, the less we suffer.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: The Process
“The is the pleasure attached to a work of art of manuscript or even more manual labor; and of course the tougher the work, the greater the pleasure it will give.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: The Process
“There is direct pleasure seeing what grows under one's hands day by day, until at last it is finished.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: The Process
“In their search for gold, the alchemist discovered other things–gun powder, medicine, the laws of nature. There is a sense in which we are all alchemists.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Persistance
“For that which is otherwise quite indistinguishable all affliction, vexation, loss, grief, time alone digests.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Persistance
“Life is a game of dice. Even if you don't throw the number you like, you still have to play it and play it well.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Fate, Amor fati
“You must let it run its course and abide the result.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Fate, Amor fati
“Fate soon teaches us, in a rough and ready way, that we really possess nothing at all, but that everything in the world is at its command.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.comTagged: Fate, Amor fati