ArtHolic

جورج وسوف - بتعاتبني 1999 https://youtube.com/watch?v=qx9k5BIy0lQ&si=q-uAZ0DgNr8zpYy6

"Those who strive and hope and live only in the future, always looking ahead and impatiently anticipating what is coming, as something which will make them happy when they get it, are, in spite of their very clever airs, exactly like those donkeys one sees in Italy, whose pace may be hurried by fixing a stick on their heads with a wisp of hay at the end of it; this is always just in front of them, and they keep on trying to get it. Such people are in a constant state of illusion as to their whole existence; they go on living ad interim, until at last they die." - Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims

“Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin." Søren Kierkegaard

"Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself; do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superflous in the obtruse eyes of a busy world,a above all, do not permit this to deprive you of your idea of yourself, as if youra life, if lived in inwardness, did not have just as much meaning and worth as that of any human being in the eyes of all wise governance, and considerably more than the busy, busiest haste of busy-ness - busy with wasting life and losing itself." Søren Kierkegaard