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“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.”

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William Hazlitt, born on April 10, 1778, was an influential English essayist and literary critic. His works are renowned for their sharp observations and profound insights, which have had a lasting impact on 19th-century British literature. more

“I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.”

Knows Feels Humans Persons Enough Problem Next Human Beings Awareness Danger Despair Capable Conviction Defined I've Learned Bombs Pessimism Inadequate Pessimist Atomic Bomb

Author:Norman Cousins

“They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.”

People Made Play Suffering Fun Knowing Serious Enlightened

Author:Alan Watts

“Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.”

Mind Doe Play Genius Essentials Characteristics Playfulness Rare Things Versatility

Book:The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

Source: The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange

“A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.”

World Soul Play Life Is Too Much Circumstances All Things Senses Comic Vivid Miscellaneous Free Play

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.”

Play Hands Age Old Age Good Work Joyous Hand In Hand

Author:Lord Byron

“Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.”

Ifs Giving Should Firsts Pleasure Risk Satisfaction Delight Possession Enjoyed Enjoyment Owners Rejoice Diminish Stale Freshness Annoyance

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Sages do not accumulate for themselves. The more they give to others, the more they possess of their own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.”

Way Giving Heaven Benefits Possession Sage

Author:Laozi

“When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.”

People Heart Endure Satisfaction Possession Seeds Sowing Sowing Seeds

Author:Beverly LaHaye

“But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.”

Persons Rich Slave Possession Unhappy Domination No Money Rich Person

Author:George MacDonald

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