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Life, and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison, is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
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Life, and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison, is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Be sure of this, o young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Life has its beginning and its maturity comes into being when an individual rises above self to something greater. Few individuals learn this, and so they go through life merely existing and never living.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor. Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done and was about to do.