{"id":178,"date":"2022-09-18T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T18:08:17","slug":"rules-life-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/rules-life-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules, life and literature"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rules,
Rules of life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rules, life and literature, ideas, quotations, aphorisms and opinions about the wise rules to move on well in life, dealing with all the different situations of the human existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history on an alternative pathway that would not have led to consciousness.<\/span>
\nStephen Jay Gould<\/span><\/p>\n

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

At age 17, she was rejected from college.<\/span>
\nAt age 25, her mother died from disease.<\/span>
\nAt age 26, she suffered a miscarriage.<\/span>
\nAt age 27, she got married.<\/span>
\nHer husband abused her. Despite this, her daughter was born.<\/span>
\nAt age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe depression.<\/span>
\nAt age 29, she was a single mother living on welfare.<\/span>
\nAt age 30, she didn’t want to be on this earth.<\/span>
\nBut, she directed all her passion into doing the one thing she could do better than anyone else.<\/span>
\nAnd that was writing.<\/span>
\nAt age 31, she finally published her first book.<\/span>
\nAt age 35, she had released 4 books, and was named Author of the Year.<\/span>
\nAt age 42, she sold 11 million copies of her new book, on the first day of release.<\/span>
\nThis woman is J.K. Rowling. Remember how she considered suicide at age 30?<\/span>
\nToday, Harry Potter is a global brand worth more than $15 billion dollars.<\/span>
\nNever give up. Believe in yourself. Be passionate. Work hard. It\u2019s never too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Michael\u2019s Shield of Truth Prayer<\/span>
\nSt. Michael, you are our defender and safeguard against evil. Place your Shield of Truth over us and defend us in the battle which Satan wages against truth. Help us to seethe righteous path of Holy Love. Clarify our choices between good and evil by placing us always behind your Shield of Truth.
\nAmen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.<\/span>
\nAleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.<\/span>
\nGeorge Carlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is, in fact, a struggle.<\/span><\/span> On this point pessimists and optimists agree.<\/span><\/span> Evil is insolent and strong;<\/span><\/span> beauty is beautiful, but rare;<\/span><\/span> goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof;<\/span><\/span> and mankind, as a whole, unhappy.<\/span><\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.<\/span>
\nSoren kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

The literal meaning of life is wahtever you are doing that prevents you from killing yourself.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation – creation – there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadness is caused by intelligence, the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn\u2019t understand them.<\/span>
\nCharles Bukowski<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Life<\/a>
Life rules and literature<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wisdom overcomes fortune.<\/span>
\nDecimus Junius Juvenalis<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.<\/span>
\nT.S. Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans are creatures, who spent their lives trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.<\/span>
\nAlbert Camus<\/span><\/p>\n

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A noble heart will refuse happiness built on misfortune of others.<\/span>
\nSaadi<\/span><\/p>\n

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

For all evils, there are two remedies – time and silence.<\/span>
\nAlexandre Dumas<\/span><\/p>\n

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.<\/span>
\nLao Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.<\/span>
\nEdmund Burke<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.<\/span>
\nRene Descartes<\/span><\/p>\n

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.<\/span>
\nScottish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. <\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Social<\/a>
Social life and friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The modernist writers found despair inspirational. <\/span>
\nMason Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n

No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.<\/span>
\nMikhail Bulgakov<\/span><\/p>\n

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.<\/span>
\nSun Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Show respect to people who don’t even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.<\/span>
\nDave Willis<\/span><\/p>\n

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. <\/span>
\nNorman Macewan<\/span><\/p>\n

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. <\/span>
\nMeister Eckhart<\/span><\/p>\n

First appearance deceives many. <\/span>
\nPhaedrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. <\/span>
\nSaying<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be. <\/span>
\nEric Butterworth<\/span><\/p>\n

To be continued …<\/span><\/p>\n

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