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What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals |
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And not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but |
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Those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality... because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives |
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Is by valuing the lives of others |
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Fantasies have to be unrealistic |
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Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. |
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In order to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent |
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It's not the 'it' that you want, its the fantasy of 'it' |
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We are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. |
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This is why we say: the hunt is sweeter than the kill, or: be careful what you wish for - not because you'll get it: because you're doomed not to want it once you do |
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Living by your wants will never make you happy. |