G.k. ChestertonThere are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less
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If you really want to get enough of something, you need to stop accumulating more and more. You can’t stop having wants and needs; we all want, we all feel pain. But if you don’t live with an awareness of the limits of your desire and pain, you will keep chasing after the future, and the future won’t come. Instead, you can follow the advice of Aristotle: “The happiest life is the one in which there is nothing that one wants.” What this means is that happiness lies not in never wanting or experiencing pain, but in being able to accept those experiences as a part of yourself. In other words, happiness lies in finding the acceptance within yourself to let go of desires as well as pain.
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