Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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More Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.