Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Cesare PaveseRead
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Interpretation
The greatest happiness comes from starting new endeavors.
This quote by Cesare Pavese emphasizes that the true joy in life stems from the act of beginning something new. It suggests that the process of starting is what brings fulfillment, rather than the completion of a task or project, encouraging individuals to embrace new beginnings as a source of happiness and opportunity.
In practice
This quote can inspire team members during a project kickoff.
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.
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