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14. "Chronic pain is not all about the body and it's not all about the brain—it's everything. Target everything. Take back your life." — Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, Pain and the Brain 15.
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
14. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus 15. “Life, if well lived, is long enough.” —Seneca If you have the time, read these gratitude quotes that will remind ...
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
The experience of pain is, due to its seeming universality, a very good portal through which to view various aspects of human life. Discussions in philosophy of mind concerning qualia has given rise to a body of knowledge called philosophy of pain , [ 1 ] which is about pain in the narrow sense of physical pain , and which must be distinguished ...
"The Last Messiah" (Norwegian: "Den sidste Messias") is a 1933 essay by the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe.One of his most significant works, this approximately 10 page long essay would later be expanded upon in Zapffe’s book, On the Tragic, and, as a theory describes a reinterpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch.
Six-time Olympic downhill ski racer Sarah Schleper told me, “Ski racing is all mental. If you have a bad race, you have to have the memory of a goldfish, or you will stay in the dumps — and ...
"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" was an essay by the philosopher William James, which he first delivered as a lecture to the Yale Philosophical Club, in 1891. It was later included in the collection, The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy.