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Saturday's Quote of the Day
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you...
I have two tattoos (nothing too crazy)—one of which reads, "Amor Fati."
Translated, it means "love your fate."
I had read a Nietzsche quote about the concept—with his theory being that you have to love the good and bad that happens to you, because it all went into making you who YOU are.
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"Love your fate, which is of course your life," was more or less what he said.
Which leads me to one of my favorite quotes by the philosopher, one that's interesting to ponder. And for the record, I can only hope we can all learn to answer, "Never have I heard anything more devine."
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Here it is:
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon? Or would have answered him: 'Never have I heard anything more divine.'”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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