50 Golden Rules For a Better Life
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1. As Shopenhouver said, “Just as the fish feels good only in the water, the bird in the air and the mole under the ground, so every human being feels good only in the environment that is appropriate to him.”
Know yourself and your capabilities. Develop your acquired character.
Know yourself and your capabilities. Develop your acquired character.
2. Stop looking for happiness and pleasure. Try instead to escape as much as possible from pain and suffering.
3. Do not envy. Apply to your life this quote from Seneca: “You will never be happy if you are tormented by the fact that someone else is happier than you.
3. Do not envy. Apply to your life this quote from Seneca: “You will never be happy if you are tormented by the fact that someone else is happier than you.
4. Don’t crave so many possessions.
5. Avoid illusions. The pains of the soul come when the illusion disappears.
6. Assume your reality. Live with what you have, not with what you pretend.
7. Limit your radius of action. Limitations also bring us stability and happiness.
5. Avoid illusions. The pains of the soul come when the illusion disappears.
6. Assume your reality. Live with what you have, not with what you pretend.
7. Limit your radius of action. Limitations also bring us stability and happiness.
8. Reflect before you act. But when you decide to undertake an action, put everything on your part.
9. Listen to Aristotle: “The prudent person does not aspire to pleasure, but the absence of pain.”
10. Listen to Seneca: “Submit to reason if you want to submit everything.”
9. Listen to Aristotle: “The prudent person does not aspire to pleasure, but the absence of pain.”
10. Listen to Seneca: “Submit to reason if you want to submit everything.”
11. Don’t torture yourself when something has no solution.
12. Talk more to yourself than to others. When you tell someone a secret, sooner or later, everyone finds out.
13. Think about the future and the present. Don’t neglect either. Don’t obsess over either.
12. Talk more to yourself than to others. When you tell someone a secret, sooner or later, everyone finds out.
13. Think about the future and the present. Don’t neglect either. Don’t obsess over either.
14. Maintain serenity.
15. Never forget that nothing is ours. Everything is temporary.
16. Don’t buy pleasures whose price is pain.
17. Limit your fantasies.
18. No success or failure lasts forever.
15. Never forget that nothing is ours. Everything is temporary.
16. Don’t buy pleasures whose price is pain.
17. Limit your fantasies.
18. No success or failure lasts forever.
19. Open the doors of joy when it comes into your life.
20. Do not show your anger in public.
21.Enjoy everything in its moment, without worrying about everything else.
22. Don’t regret giving up pleasures.
20. Do not show your anger in public.
21.Enjoy everything in its moment, without worrying about everything else.
22. Don’t regret giving up pleasures.
23. Use your imagination. Life is like a game of dice: if a roll does not fall as you need, art must correct what chance offers
24. Don’t idealize your dreams so much.
25. Appreciate things before you lose them.
26. Live a serene life. Don’t let your desires torment you.
24. Don’t idealize your dreams so much.
25. Appreciate things before you lose them.
26. Live a serene life. Don’t let your desires torment you.
27. Don’t compare yourself with the one who is better than you.
28. Don’t regret getting older.
29. Don’t be too ambitious.
30. Activity is vital for happiness.
28. Don’t regret getting older.
29. Don’t be too ambitious.
30. Activity is vital for happiness.
31. When you want to fulfill a dream, focus on the concept, not the detail.
32. Don’t sacrifice your health for anything or anyone.
33. Do not rely on first impressions. Reflect.
34. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
35. Pay attention to each stage of life.
32. Don’t sacrifice your health for anything or anyone.
33. Do not rely on first impressions. Reflect.
34. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
35. Pay attention to each stage of life.
36. The aspiration for happiness and the struggle for it attracts misfortunes.
37. You don’t always have to postpone your happiness.
38. Each person is different. Every being is a world of its own.
37. You don’t always have to postpone your happiness.
38. Each person is different. Every being is a world of its own.
39. Love your destiny. Consider everything that happens to you as necessary (even the bad moments).
40. Being pessimistic is not as bad as being overoptimistic.
41. When something terrible happens to you, don’t torture yourself thinking that it should have been otherwise.
40. Being pessimistic is not as bad as being overoptimistic.
41. When something terrible happens to you, don’t torture yourself thinking that it should have been otherwise.
42. Do not make excessive plans.
43. Focus on the inside, “in the self,” and you will be happier.
44. Do not be obsessed with the material. The main wealth is personality.
43. Focus on the inside, “in the self,” and you will be happier.
44. Do not be obsessed with the material. The main wealth is personality.
45. The important thing is to be the person who rejoices in victories and does not despair in defeats.
46. Listen to Aristotle: “a philosophical life gives you the most happiness.” Reflect, know yourself.
47. Friendship is a shared property
46. Listen to Aristotle: “a philosophical life gives you the most happiness.” Reflect, know yourself.
47. Friendship is a shared property
48. Happiness is not an easy thing. It is very difficult to find it within ourselves. But impossible to find it elsewhere.
49. A happy life is worth living.
49. A happy life is worth living.
50. All reality consists of two halves: the object and the subject.
The objective half is in the hands of fate and is variable, the subjective half is ourselves, and this is essentially invariable. So focus on being better.
The objective half is in the hands of fate and is variable, the subjective half is ourselves, and this is essentially invariable. So focus on being better.
The crucial point is that without having the right mindset, you won’t be deeply calm and happy.
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