When you are feeling happy, don't pull short of feeling bliss; for though we can find joy in every little thing we do, it is not often that we break the lethargy of emptiness, so don't short change yourself in what little we have.
When you are feeling sad, don't stop yourself from plunging either; for expecting of yourself to break the desolate feeling, is both hard and unreasonable. Expectations only lead to disappointment, and further pain. It is really quite impossible to pick yourself up while falling; only when you are at the bottom, can you find your footing again.
Experience only the limits.
For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! — Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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