The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Life is driven by desire to live and dissatisfaction with living.
- In plain terms
- We are motivated by wanting life and feeling it falls short.
- What can you take from it?
- Channel dissatisfaction into purposeful action.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What dissatisfies you most?
- How can desire become constructive?
Another view
Endless dissatisfaction can lead to despair.
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