"Don't wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to handle a hard life."
  • TiredThinker
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    "Don't wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to handle a hard life."

    What is the logic to this quote? I know it is good to be prepared and adversity teaches many great lessons, but if one can have an easy life instead of a hard one isn't that better? It also seems less efficient to have both a hard life and special training to cope with it. Why not avoid any gunk in the gears of existence?
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  • Vera Mont
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    What is the logic to this quote? — TiredThinker

    An easy life is one in which nothing much happens; little is longed-for, experienced, attained and savoured or lost and mourned; nothing is accomplished; nothing is won. Nothing to recall in the declining years when you sit staring into the fire someone else is stoking.
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  • 180 Proof
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    "Don't wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to handle a hard life." [Bruce Lee]

    What is the logic to this quote?     — TiredThinker
    Expect the worst and prepare for the best. You'll never be disappointed. Either win or learn! :strong: Besides, an "easy life" is a crutch (re: decadence) that is more likely to cripple you than not.

    Amor fati. :death: :flower:
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  • TiredThinker
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    Well maybe the issue is wanting or expecting extremes. Surely one can hope for a life that is pretty far from the bottom rung of society? Living out of ones 20s? Not being abused by an authority? Not suffering horrible illness ones whole life that can't be overcome?
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  • 180 Proof
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    ↪TiredThinker
    I'm not a fan of "hope". Courage – making an ally of fear – is what matters most. Play the cards life has dealt you the best you can, TiredT, or fold 'em.
    ... you're on earth, there's no cure for that! — Samuel Beckett, Endgame
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