“To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.” FeelsDoneJobsLife IsNextWiseThis LifeUnhappinessGood JobRebirthNext Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.” ThinkingEndsHardLife IsAmountTerribleEndureUnhappyUnhappiness Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.” WantFeelsPersonsLife IsWishEmotionObjectsPrejudiceVictimReleaseUnhappinessIrrelevantSubjectiveDissatisfaction Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.” MenYearsHumansMayChildrenMadeLife IsCertainMarriedMassDaughterTradeMiseryHuman LifeRememberedUnhappinessUnfortunateIntervals Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.” WorldMindMatterWholeRealitySuccessLife IsSpiritTermPerfectResultsWorryFailureOppositesFundamentalsUnityUnhappinessTranquilityDualityLife HappinessSuccess Or FailureMind And MatterTrue Reality Author:Tom Hoover