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Thought for the day
"You know what everyone's greatest fear is? It is that all the dreams we have, all the crazy ideas and aspirations, all the impossible romantic longings and utopian visions can come true, that the world can grant us our wishes... No weight could be harder to bear than the possibility that everything we want is possible. If that is true, then there really are things at stake in this life, things to be truly won or lost." -- Nietzsche
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(Anonymous) 2007-06-11 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)That alternative approach might change what we want, leading us to find that what we want can be possible.
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One of my favourite Nietzsche quotes is "The consequences of our actions grab us by the scruff of our necks, quite indifferent to our claim that we have "gotten better" in the meantime."
That's always struck a chord for me :)
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All the dreams we have can come true, and life is glorious because of those dreams, even the ones that are never realised.
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(not entirely true, but it is the first and hardest hurdle to get to over)
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