Secret to Life
by Nicola · 5 things on Twos
- Joy
- Dostoevsky
- Life worth living - Mary Shelley
- What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
- This is the true joy in life, to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and that as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live, I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw