I want to look at the role that an awareness of death might play in our project of living more happily. Whilst self-help books typically focus on setting goals to fill your life with everything you want in order to find happiness, you’ll understand by now my approach foregoes such questionable methods. We’ll aim for something richer and less neurot

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Writer Maya Angelou on complaining:

“Sister, there are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. Sister, those who expected to rise did not, their beds became their cooling boards, and their blankets became their winding sheets. And those dead folks would give anything,... See more

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others. But this is the wrong path. The right path is to know that life is short, every day is a gift, and you have certain gifts. Happiness is about understanding that the gift of life should be honored every day by offering your gifts to the world. Don’t let your

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Je prends très au sérieux l’idée que si vous vivez content et sans trop de regrets, vous affronterez la mort avec plus de sérénité. C’est une leçon que m’ont donnée nombre de patients proches de la mort, ainsi que des écrivains tels que Tolstoï, qui permet à Ivan Ilitch de comprendre que s’il meurt si mal, c’est parce qu’il a mal vécu. Vivre de faç

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