Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of somke, thorougly used up, totally worn outm and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!
Hunter S. Thompson
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Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Yeah, winter sucks, it’s cold and wet.
Ugh, it’s so warm today, I don’t want to do anything, summer can be really stressfull.
I don’t know what to wear, it’s not cold, not warm, curse you spring and fall!
Well it is not always about what you don’t have and what you wish for. Mostly you have the best times if you just accept the current situation and enjoy it.
Adapt to whatever life gives you and enjoy the hell out of it. Who can stop you? That’s right, because you decided to have fun without depending on outer circumstances, no one can take you that. Enjoy your fun 🙂
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Let life happen to you. Believe me, life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes people say stuff like “This is unfair” or “I don’t deserve this, life sucks”. I don’t like those sayings. Life is not unfair. Life is life. You can make anything out of it so stop blaming “life” on your misery and start taking responsibility.
Giving something universal like life the fault for anything is plain stupid and a bad excuse for being lazy. Instead embrace life, enjoy things even if they don’t go according to plan and laugh about confusion.
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- Trust yourself.
- Break the rules.
- Do not be afraid of failure.
- Ignore the naysayers.
- WORK YOUR BUTT OFF!
- Live for something. Or die.
Set Goals, Work harder than your idols, CRUSH FUCKING EVERYONE!
I found this one around the internet and really like the determination. Don’t take the last bits too literaly, I think you get the point.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
But also know this: Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted. Not everything that seems useless is wasted time as long as you have fun doing it.
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock.
The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be suprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You are not a child! You may still be able to have fun like a child (which is awesome), but you are responsible for yourself meaning you are responsible for your own well-being. Therefore you may blame it on other people or life in general that you just don’t have motivation, love, a purpose in life, but in the end it is you who suffers and takes the consequences.
Even if you were right and someone else was trying to make you feel bad what would that make you? Nothing more than someone who gets bullied around and instead of fighting back just points his finger towards others.
Don’t be that unreactive tool, rather take action, start living! You create your own life and you have to stop thinking that ‘one day’ you will just wake up with discipline, one day you will just get to know the love of your life without effort or one day you simply get told why you are on earth.
It is your task (and a fun one) to form your habits, your mind, your soul and your body. Yup, sounds cheesy, but come to think of it: Who else but you has power over your life? Noone you say? Damn right, that’s what I wanted you to say! So go out there and be the person who you wanted to be, say the things that you wanted to say and do the stuff that you wanted to do!
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Hellen Keller
Yeah I get it. It is nice and comfy at home right? Yup, it is. I like it at home too. But you won’t grow by browsing the web and relaxing. You grow as a person only through experience so you have to get up and get out!
Do sports, follow your interests, meet new people, just don’t think about your last week like it did not matter. Life is way too awesome to sit around and relax. In the end you wont remember those days when you “slept really long” or “relaxed the whole day”. Think about it. Or better: Don’t think about it, trust me, and GET OUT!
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Money invested in fun is money well spent
Some people say money is important some say it is not.
I say: Spending money is important. While it is a good feeling to have some cash on the bank money is made for spending after all. If you are not willing to use your money why would it comfort you in any way?
Go out, have fun, make trips, and if you realise you don’t need that much money to be happy: Work less. It will pay off 🙂
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Today I talked to a buddy at the university about nothing in particular when this happened:
Buddy: I’d be happy if I made more money than my professor some day.
Since we study economics I assured him that he probably will if he goes in the open economy
Him: Only if I am good at what I do.
Me: Well, are you?
Him: I don’t know if I will be
Me: Well, why wouldn’t you?
Him: How would I know, I have not written any tests so far
I could not believe that he actually said and believed that. He honestly thinks his success in tests and in university in general defines his later work life!
How can our school system fuck that hard with the mind of a young person? I can’t believe that people really think that way, this is so damn limiting!
What about following your dreams, believing in your ideas? What about the passion that young people always have? If you ask a child what he wants to be when he grows up he sure as hell won’t say: I wanna be a firefighter, but therefore I have to study hard and be an honorable person.
He will reply: I want to be James Bond, I want to be a firefighter, heck I want to be a billionaire!
I don’t say that education is not important or should be taken lightly but everything has to have boundaries and if you really think your success in several years from now on depends on how well you do in some tests right now, there must be something wrong.
How great must this pressure be? If I fail now, I won’t have a good job in ten years?
Wow, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT apply this attitude to your life!
Go where you want to go and take important tasks serious but damn have fun on the way and don’t worry too much. It will all work out! It always has and it always will work out, trust me on this one.
And now go out and enjoy yourself!
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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.
John Steinbeck
Live! Honestly, live life to the fullest!
Don’t try to be perfect, don’t waste your time thinking about what if. Things come and go, Times change and there are times to rest and times to wort. Don’t worry too much, just be true to yourself and happy.
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