"Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like..."

By: vivian on quarta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2017

“Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all, it makes it possible for us to make up our mind and arrange to live sensibly, truthfully and always with a sense of our own limitations. It gives peace also, because true peace of mind comes from accepting the worst.”

- Lin Yutang, “The Importance of Loafing,” from his book The Importance of Living (New York, 1938)

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