#livebetter

Pleasure

As I grow older I realize that the only pleasure I have in anything is to share it with someone else. —Eleanor Roosevelt

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. —Marcus Aurelius

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. —Albert Camus

Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up. —Maya Angelou

It is not what is done to us, but what is made of us, that wrongs us. No man can be really injured but by what modifies himself. —Olive Schreiner

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another. —Buddha

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. —Reinhold Niebuhr

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. —Aristotle

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. —Margaret Atwood

Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals. —Joseph Krimsky