When I look back at the past ...

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge needed to live, when I think of how often I sinned against my heart andmy soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn. Dear brother, I swear that I shall not lose hope. I will keep my soulpure and my heart open. I will be reborn for the better. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky(p. 574)

[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how---Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 370)

[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

"All too many people have seen power and love as polar opposites... two fulfill each other. Power without love is reckless, and love without power is sentimental." (p. 366)

[오늘의 한문장] The Laws of Human Nature

Your task is to let go of the rigidity that takes hold of you as you overidentify with the expected gender role. Power lies in exploring that middle range between the masculine and the feminine, in playing against people’s expectations. Return to the harder or softer sides of your character that you have lost or repressed. (p. 332)

it is worth cultivating momen...

it is worth cultivating moments in life in which we feel immense satisfaction and happiness divorced from our own success or achievements. This happens commonly when we find ourselves in a beautiful landscape-the mountains, the sea, a forest. We do not feel the prying, comparing eyes of others, the need to have more attention or to assert ourselves. We are simply in awe of what we see, and it is intensely therapeutic. This can also occur when we contemplate the immensity of the universe, the uncanny set of circumstancesthat had to come together for us to be born, the vast reaches of time before usand after us. These are sublime moments, and as far removed from the pettinesand poisons of envy as possible. (p. 290)