Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Interpretation
Balance your responsibilities with your desires to live a fulfilling life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of balancing the necessary tasks of life with the personal passions and desires that bring joy. It suggests that while obligations must be fulfilled, it is also essential to carve out time for the things that one truly loves, thereby achieving a more satisfying and rewarding existence.
In practice
Encouraging friends to pursue their passions during a gathering.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
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