A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.
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