"Here is a commandment for you: seek..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
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“What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.”
“Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.”
“My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.”
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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”
“You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.”
“Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”
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“The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.”
“When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.”
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”