Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.