Surprises About Mankind

What surprises you most about mankind?

"That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up and then long to be children again."

"That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health."

"That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future."

"That they live as if they will never die and they die as if they had never lived."

What are some the things that mankind can learn?

"To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved. "

"To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but whom they have in their lives."

"To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it in a completely different way."

"To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most but rather is one who needs the least."

--Author Unknown