Thoughts and analysis of famous quotes.
Franz Kafka once said that paths are created by walking, but what exactly does that mean? Firstly, it means that we cannot tread paths as long as we stand still. Second, it means that when we walk, we leave a trail for others to follow. "Paths are made by walking." Franz Kafka Let us now turn our attention to the two...
It is usually the times when we are far from well that we realize we need to do something different. Then, when we have managed to change our situation, we have made it out of a bad situation. For this reason, it is all the more commendable when we have made it. "Everyone.
Science has already discovered so much and found answers to so many questions. However, it does not yet have an answer to the question of how we live best. Is there even a blanket answer to this question? "We have figured out everything except how to live." Jean-Paul Sartre How we should live best,...
We all strive for one thing: to be happy. However, this seems difficult to achieve, almost impossible. Paradoxically, the more we want it, the harder it becomes to grasp. But why is that? Because the pursuit of happiness is a will-o'-the-wisp. "There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the way." Buddha...
We tend to seek our happiness and security outside ourselves. However, external factors cannot give us anything that we do not already have within ourselves. Only our inner light can illuminate our own world. But how do we find this refuge within ourselves? Don't look for a refuge in anyone but...
If we are too afraid of something, we may fall into a kind of rigidity. In order not to fall into this stagnation, or not to be afflicted by fear in the first place, we must simply not desire anything. But how do you manage to desire nothing? "There is no fear for someone whose...
Shadow is the absence of light, likewise there is also the good, only in relation to the evil. If nothing were beautiful, then nothing would be ugly. We must learn to understand that the good and the evil belong together and create each other first. "There must be evil in order for good to have its purity above it....
The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, who later found enlightenment and thus became the Buddha, is known for his wisdom. The following quote comes from him and can be just as useful to us today as it was to people more than two thousand years ago: "Do today with zeal what must be done. Who knows, tomorrow death will come." Buddha...
Nowadays, we take in more information in a day than people did in a lifetime in the past. It is now important that we do not let this information control our thinking. Because what we think is what we become in the long run. "What we think, we become." Siddhartha "Buddha" Gautama Our actions direct...
Unfortunately, the way we deal with problems is often far from ideal. And the reason for this is very simple: A problem is something unpleasant and one usually deals with it only very superficially - as little as possible. However, this behavior is by far nothing new and humans have apparently already...
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