Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Conspicuous Waste

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

- Bertrand Russell

5 comments:

  1. No, he's wrong, that's the dispensable part of happiness. The indispensable part is to be without want of things.

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  2. It avoids disappointment, sure, but the 'striving' can be more fulfilling than the 'obtaining'. If you are striving to be without want, isn't that still a type of 'want'?

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  3. There is no point trying not to try, but not trying isn't difficult.

    You make not wanting sound like an immense challenge.

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  4. Of course it's a challenge.
    Not for you, perhaps, but you know it's not all about you.

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  5. Well then you have to decide whether it is a worthwhile challenge, or whether, as you're going to go to that much effort, it might not be better to get the girl, the job, and the loft in Manhattan. On the other hand, how hard is not wanting that?

    Of course it's all about you, who else would it be about?

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