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“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
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“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”
One week after I started this blog I published a post “We live many lives”. Today I decided to copy it here because it is a central post to my understanding of life and pursuit of happiness.
I want to stress that life always requires to make risky choices. When you decide to marry or not to marry it is one of the riskiest choices in your life.
I also want to stress one sentence in the post below:
“a human being is born for happiness but happiness is notquaranteed, it must be achieved!”*
- ” Man is born to be happy as a bird is born to fly”.
V. Korolenko
There are different definitions of it.
-sequences of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual
– spiritual existence transcending physical death
Below is one of my favorite poems by Sergei Yesenin. He wrote it when he was 25 years old.
I am 80 years old now and I feel that I am still young. My views changed drastically since I read this poem first time and now I doubt that “I will not be young again”.
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I do not regret, and I do not shed tears,
All, like haze off apple-trees, must pass.
Turning gold, I’m fading, it appears,
I will not be young again, alas.
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Having got to know the touch of coolness
I will not feel, as before, so good.
And the land of birch trees, – oh my goodness!-
Cannot make me wander barefoot.
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Vagrant’s spirit! You do not so often
Stir the fire of my lips these days.
Oh my freshness, that begins to soften!
Oh my lost emotions, vehement gaze!
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Presently I do not feel a yearning,
Oh, my life! Have I been sleeping fast?
Well, it feels like early in the morning
On a rosy horse I’ve galloped past.
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We are all to perish, hoping for some favour,
Golden leaves flow down turning grey.
May you be redeemed and blessed for ever,
You who came to bloom and pass away…
Sergei Yesenin
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1) Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
2) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
3) Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
4) The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
5) You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
It is trying time for people who lived both in Ukraine and Russia. I am one of these people. That’s why I decided to reblog this post today.