No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.
After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.