The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.