quote/unquote | Lucretius, like Epicurus, said: limit your wants,...

Lucretius, like Epicurus, said: limit your wants, and you will limit the pain of not getting. Want less and you will not suffer: plug up the leaky jar.

But you cannot plug up the jar and still live. You have no choice but to be porous and leak, to want and love, and need to be wanted and loved.

Jane Alison in the NYT, via: the beautiful and the ordinary

Tagged: wanting

Posted on August 2, 2010 via the beautiful and the ordinary with 24 notes

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