Life Is Hard

• 喵心似铁

  2023-05-14
  The truth is that we should not aim to be happy but to live as well as we can. As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche quipped: “Humanity does not strive for happiness, only the English do”—a swipe at thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, who value nothing but pleasure over pain. I don’t mean we should strive to be unhappy, or be indifferent to happiness, but there is more to life than how it feels. Our task is to face adversity as we should—and here truth is the only means. We have to live in the world as it is, not the world as we wish it would be.
• 喵心似铁

  2023-05-14
  To quote the poet Robert Frost, when it comes to human suffering, there’s “no way out but through.”
• 目送飞鸿

  2023-01-11
  Whatever story you tell about yourself, however simple and straightforward, there is endlessly more to your actual life. As Joe Moran insists: “To call any life a failure, or a success, is to miss the infinite granularity, the inexhaustible miscellany of all lives.... A life can’t really succeed or fail at all; it can only be lived.