You don't pursue them to pass tests or drop names at a cocktail party—but to live a wise life, a mindful life, a good life. There are people everywhere who are doing just that. Their stories aren't told in the media or made into motion pictures, but they are far better role models than movie stars or pop singers.
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Because you don't want to look stupid, you'll stay stupid or because you don't want to ask for help, you don't get help. Uh or you don't want to look like you want it too badly, so you don't get it.
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Let every man in mankind’s frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find life, at his death, a memory without pain.
Ask yourself, am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? People in the abstract want to live a long time and then you look at how they spend their days and it's on some of the dumbest imaginable, right? They spend it gossiping. They spend it complaining. They spend it working a job they don't like.
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