"The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else."

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Shunryu Suzuki

#Life Is Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #Acknowledge Quotes

“I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.”
“It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.”
“The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.”
“If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.”
“Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.”
“choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.43, BookBaby
“Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.”
“I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.”

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