Some awesome reading here, guys. I especially like this bit:
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Originally Posted by Superman
Life is not something that comes at you. Your world is not exterior. YOU have your life. YOU make your world. Two people in exactly the same objective situation.......one of them might be living a tragic, sad, pathetic, unfair life. The other might be having a BLAST. It is up to you.
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So true. I think this is what Thoreau was getting at in the quote from Walden I posted in the movie lines thread. Here it is again:
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."