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.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
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