If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. - David Foster Wallace
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
- David Foster Wallace
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's th… - David Foster Wallace
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's th…
The man who knows his limitations, has none. - David Foster Wallace
The man who knows his limitations, has none.
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it. - David Foster Wallace
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. - David Foster Wallace
It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to ch… - David Foster Wallace
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to ch…
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. - David Foster Wallace
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. - David Foster Wallace
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because th… - David Foster Wallace
If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because th…
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