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• every moment of our existence—happy, sad, generous, or cruel—gives us our experience of life and should be ac- cepted as such.
• “Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended  side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness ...
• I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowl- edge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”
• “Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land.”
• While we were waiting for the shower, our nakedness was brought home to us: we really had nothing now except our bare bodies—even minus hair; all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence. What else remained for us as a material link with our former lives? For me there were my glasses and my belt; the latter I had to exchange later on for a ...