Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Interpretation
Balance your responsibilities with your desires to live a fulfilling life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of balancing the necessary tasks of life with the personal passions and desires that bring joy. It suggests that while obligations must be fulfilled, it is also essential to carve out time for the things that one truly loves, thereby achieving a more satisfying and rewarding existence.
In practice
Encouraging friends to pursue their passions during a gathering.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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