“To be alive at all is
to have scars."
- John Steinbeck,
born on this day in 1902.
“To be alive at all is to have scars." - John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902.
Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Dostoevski said once, “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Scars and bruises are left behind on it, and if one doesn’t erase them completely, it will no longer be bruises that are found there when one receives further blows on that spot, but wounds.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
On life: the more you feel, the more you alive you are, and the more death becomes omnipresent; a constant in your mind. But in turn, the thought of death becomes your motivation to live harder. feel stronger. And the cycle is infinite, until death shines upon you its magnificent light.
“The man who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive,” as Seneca put it.