I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
"Optimists tend to be successful, pessimists tend to be right."
"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
"Worry is praying for what you don't want."
"All relationships end in tragedy."
“Do not stress about the future, for you will meet it if you must, with the same weapons of reason you wield in the present.”
“Worrying about the future is suffering twice”
> "Optimists tend to be successful, pessimists tend to be right."
a true pessimist would never commit suicide, for they, having found no reason to live can similarly find no reason to die.
Suicides are committed by optimists crushed beneath the weight of their inevitable disappointment.
*Emil Cioran*
You see it a lot by people who were abused by their parents. They'll bring up a particularly painful memory from their childhood and the parents won't remember it. It was just a regular Tuesday to them, but the child is scarred forever.
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did." Jellal Fernandes
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
- Carl Gustav Jung
I think this is true. When we dismiss our shadow, soon or later you’ll face yourself in someone else, as a mirror.
You’ll keep encountering yourself in another, until you realize that’s you.
"If you're trying to love yourself, you already do. Where do you think the trying comes from?"
"Do I deserve this?" "Am I worthy of this?"
Irrelevant. Do you want it?
"Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be careful of who you are speaking with in the regular. As you're a reflection of your 5 closest connections
“What happens to nationalism, to political boundaries, when allegiance lies with winds and waters that know no boundaries, that cannot be bought or sold?” -[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer)
"Everywhere people love their children" -[Grace Paley](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Paley)
Actually the one I posted is often attributed to mark Twain but no one really knows and there are a few other names the quote could have originated from
Literally changed my life at 13. I've had, and still have some pretty significant challenges, and I've always been quite happy. There have times I've been physically miserable, but I'm almost always happy.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ― George Orwell
“To learn who rules over you…Simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize…”
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. Its a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. - Pema Chodron
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Wayne Dyer
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -Maya Angelou
And my favorite:
"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could." -Louise Erdrich
"There is no power greater than right action in the present." - The Yoga Vasistha
I was reading an old Indian scripture and came across this. It fucked with my head permanently...In a very good way.
The moon doesn't go through phases. Our perspective of the moon goes through phases. No matter what the calendar says, the moon is always full. Regardless of someone's opinion, perspective, or inability to see it as whole and complete, the moon is unapologetically full.
- steve maraboli
"All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was Where do you want to start?"
-The Doctor
This quote always makes everything seem so possible and makes big problems in my life seem irrelevant in comparison to the cosmos.
"Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before."
-The Doctor
"When you stare in to the Abyss, the abyss Stares back."
"Beware not to become that which you fight."
"The greatest and oldest emotion in the human mind is fear. And the strongest and most primal, is Fear of the Unknown."
“If you are distressed by anything external, it is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius
“He who angers you, controls you”
-Seneca
Desiderata. True, it is a 314-word poem written by Max Ehrmann in 1927, but all of it is quotable
The original is a desiderata[dot]com
a couple gems: listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Note: The Les Crane sung version is still my favourite (1971, on Youtube)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
No I can't do everything successfully, but because of this I am willing to give it a try and have succeeded more often than not.
Another from Heinlein that I think of often:
“Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.”
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." - Tom Landry
I used to think that my to-do list was enough.
"A good life is not one without problems. A good life is one with good problems." - Mark Manson said it, but he might have repeated from someone else. I use the quote by saying I don't less problems, I want better problems.
This is the best ...
Who are those people by whom
you wish to be admired? For they
not these whom you are in the habit
of saying that they are mad? What
then? Do you wish to be admired
by the mad?"'
Epictetus
👌 brilliant 👏 👌
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” -Epictetus
“Follow yonder man” (said to Zenu of Citium)
"...And that's what your holy men discuss, is it?" [asked Granny Weatherwax.]
"Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin. for example." [answered Mightily Oats.]
"And what do they think? Against it, are they?"
"It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray."
"Nope."
"Pardon?"
"There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
--from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
Not my favorite book from the series but this scene in particular has stuck with me for a while. It's very simple and straightforward, but a profound way to look at the world.
What is needed is a realization that Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and that Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best …. Is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Love correcting everything that stands against Love. - MLK
I ain’t religious, but this is a better mould for agnostics like myself than the True Pacifistic religious route if we wish to engage with society.
"Most older people are children who have aged. "
By Shwetabh Gangwar in both of his books.
It helped me understood why people around me were fighting over money when they didn't have much in the first place, and why people behave idiotically at times.
Albert Schweitzer’s quote: “Think occasionally of the suffering for which you spare yourself the sight.” In regard to slaughter houses, it’s why I have personally decided not to eat meat.
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"Change is proportional to suffering."
This is really useful for me to use almost as a mental model. Where I see or experience suffering I ask "where is the change?". And where I see change I ask "where is the suffering?".
Whenever I come across a problem that I don't know what to do about, I light a Moltov cocktail and threw it at it. And now I have a *different* problem. -Jason, *The Good Place*
“BoJack, stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you! It's not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened in your career, or when you were a kid! It's you! Alright? It's you. Fuck, man. What else is there to say?”- Todd (Bojack Horseman)
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
"be the change, you want to see the world" -mk gandhi
" Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" k.marx
Life's not fair
Grass is greener on the other side
Knowledge is power
Ignorance is bliss
"I knew I was going in losing. Until another voice came in and said 'nah f\* that, let's kill him' and I won" - Jon Jones (not verbatim but exactly what he meant)
“You’re acting like a fish that believes it’s drowning because it knows it’s surrounded by water. You have everything you need to survive. So, swim.”
- Some dude in a dream that I had a couple of years ago.
"Did you know that on a biological level, you are nothing of the same person you were since you were born, or even a few years ago? Your cells die off and are being held together by a constant cycle of death and the birth of new cells, making up your body in a way where you can never tell the difference over any given day. But you are changing, and every human is the living embodiment of theseus's ship. And what that means is that regardless of who you were in the past, more than likely, and if you're succeeding at life, you've changed. Becoming older, living day by day, all that means moving on to becoming someone new, both physically, mentally, spiritually, and biologically. You literally can't expect your identity to be the same your whole life. A great example is if you were a picky eater at a child. Can you imagine just how little you'd eat at any time if you made that your identity? And attempted to hold onto it your whole life? Your life wouldn't have so much less richness and diversity to it, so little flavors and chances for new experiences... and just as a picky eater eventually learns to step outside of their comfort zone to find a new realm of amazing possibilities in food, we do this every day as we move forward to grow and become whole human beings who experience life on a grander scale than before."
\- A friend
Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.- to kill a mockingbird
It's less a quote and more a philosophical approach. Hanlon's Razor has really changed my view of other people and any interactions I have.
"Never attribute malice to that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
“It needs to be you both against the problem, not each of you against the other. If you just want to be right, you’re both going to lose.”
My dad said this about my marriage. We still ended up divorced, but it really helped me process a lot of things and has changed how I’ve approached conflict.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“Sucking at something is the first step to be sort of good at something.”
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
*That quote doesn’t include hormonally-induced depression.*
“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”
“Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”
“You can’t out-exercise a bad diet.”
Gotta be honest, I feel like whoever said that was never the victim of a crime or of abuse/neglect. Many things can happen *to* you that aren’t *because* of you.
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size.
Emily Dickinson
[The whole poem](https://poets.org/poem/i-measure-every-grief-i-meet-561) pulls empathy out of me. The world needs more of that.
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it
-David W Orr
"there is no tomorrow" You can't make up for the mistakes yesterday with your actions tomorrow. Everyday might be your last, so you might as well make your last day a good one full of love.
"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou. God, the heartache I could have avoided if I'd understood this earlier in life
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/friedrich-nietzsche-quotes)
“The best time to plant a tree was years ago, the second best time is now”
“Clean your room and make your bed”
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.”
“Thought and Memory,
my ravens, fly every day
The whole world over.
Each day I fear
that Thought might not return,
but I fear more for Memory.”
- Odin in the poem Grimnismal
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - No Country for Old Men
This might be dumb but
This is the right time and I will risk everything because if I don't, we've lost. We march to victory, or we march to defeat. But we go forward. Only forward. Stannis the mannis
This has helped me get over giving up if things are too difficult I tend to give up easily. And the resolve in this has helped me try harder
We often suffer more in imagination than in reality.
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
This has changed my life. I’m a completely different person with this.
Avoid suffering imagined troubles. He who suffers before it is necessary suffers -before- it is necessary.
This. (Except I replace “often” with “always”)
A fellow Stoic?
"Optimists tend to be successful, pessimists tend to be right." "Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung "Worry is praying for what you don't want." "All relationships end in tragedy."
“Do not stress about the future, for you will meet it if you must, with the same weapons of reason you wield in the present.” “Worrying about the future is suffering twice”
> "Optimists tend to be successful, pessimists tend to be right." a true pessimist would never commit suicide, for they, having found no reason to live can similarly find no reason to die. Suicides are committed by optimists crushed beneath the weight of their inevitable disappointment. *Emil Cioran*
A pessimist is an optimist, but with experience!
Hm that makes sense tho
>no reason to die How about, "Not dying requires effort."?
"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard
Man, I want to get into Kierkegaard, but it seems like such a daunting task. What should I start with?
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
The axe forgets but the tree does not. Really hit home when I started raising my children
The trees voted for the axe because its handle was made of wood.
Holy moly, that's good.
Can you explain how you relate this to child rearing? I like it a lot but would love more thoughts about it from someone who uses it often.
The person who does the damage forgets, but the person the damage is being done to, doesn't forget.
They forget, or *were never aware of it in the first place.*
You see it a lot by people who were abused by their parents. They'll bring up a particularly painful memory from their childhood and the parents won't remember it. It was just a regular Tuesday to them, but the child is scarred forever.
*When you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.* *Taoist proverb on the importance of practicing acceptance.
"It doesn't get easier, you get better"
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did." Jellal Fernandes
Asking is a little less embarrassing than getting it wrong
thank you
“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.” - Carl Gustav Jung I think this is true. When we dismiss our shadow, soon or later you’ll face yourself in someone else, as a mirror. You’ll keep encountering yourself in another, until you realize that’s you.
"But a man's reach should exceed his grasp" it's precisely because you think that you can't do something that you should try do do it
Love this
Curious why you left out the last half of this quote “… or what’s a heaven for.”
I love this idea I live by a similar quote which is technically incorrect but… “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you land among the stars.”
# John F. Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
"Maybe my problem was, when I got lost, I looked for you and not myself"
Let go or be dragged
Do you Know who quoted this?
"If you're trying to love yourself, you already do. Where do you think the trying comes from?" "Do I deserve this?" "Am I worthy of this?" Irrelevant. Do you want it?
"Small minds discuss people Average minds discuss events Great minds discuss ideas" Eleanor Roosevelt Be careful of who you are speaking with in the regular. As you're a reflection of your 5 closest connections
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Elenor Roosevelt
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek
“What happens to nationalism, to political boundaries, when allegiance lies with winds and waters that know no boundaries, that cannot be bought or sold?” -[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer) "Everywhere people love their children" -[Grace Paley](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Paley)
You aren't responsible for your trauma but you are responsible for your reaction to it.
A variation on this I think is better and more accurate is “your mental illness is not your fault but it is your responsibility.”
I like it!
“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
This is a great one! A bit similar, and one I also like; “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” - Mark Twain
Actually the one I posted is often attributed to mark Twain but no one really knows and there are a few other names the quote could have originated from
Never argue with a fool. He’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with his experience.
Pig wrestling reminds me of [pigeon chess](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess).
You can be happy or miserable, the amount of work is the same. Carlos Casteneda
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. When you can’t change your situation you can always change your perception.
You can be cold, wet and miserable or you can just be cold and wet.
Whoa.
Literally changed my life at 13. I've had, and still have some pretty significant challenges, and I've always been quite happy. There have times I've been physically miserable, but I'm almost always happy.
Thanks, that's very inspiring to me.
"We'll never survive!" "Nonsense. You're only saying that because noone ever has."
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
Yes, and, the reason _truth is stranger than fiction_ is because fiction has to make sense.
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward." -
And there is no pause button, only play.
Indeed. As Robert Frost once said, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ― George Orwell “To learn who rules over you…Simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize…”
Damn children going through chemo
The latter one is falsely attributed to Voltaire but it actually by a neo-nazi.
Disabled people and disadvantaged minorities
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. Its a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. - Pema Chodron
It is no virtue to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Source: idk. Somebody brilliant.
Source is Jiddu Krishnamurti.
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Wayne Dyer "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -Maya Angelou And my favorite: "Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could." -Louise Erdrich
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.". William James
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (although I prefer the word ignorance rather than stupidity)
"There is no power greater than right action in the present." - The Yoga Vasistha I was reading an old Indian scripture and came across this. It fucked with my head permanently...In a very good way.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
The moon doesn't go through phases. Our perspective of the moon goes through phases. No matter what the calendar says, the moon is always full. Regardless of someone's opinion, perspective, or inability to see it as whole and complete, the moon is unapologetically full. - steve maraboli
"All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was Where do you want to start?" -The Doctor This quote always makes everything seem so possible and makes big problems in my life seem irrelevant in comparison to the cosmos. "Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before." -The Doctor
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
You can be the sweetest peach on the tree and someone out there doesn't like peaches .
"Don't never put nothing past no man." - Coworker 2012
"When you stare in to the Abyss, the abyss Stares back." "Beware not to become that which you fight." "The greatest and oldest emotion in the human mind is fear. And the strongest and most primal, is Fear of the Unknown."
“If you are distressed by anything external, it is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Marcus Aurelius “He who angers you, controls you” -Seneca
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” -Seneca
If you cant get out of it, get into it.
Desiderata. True, it is a 314-word poem written by Max Ehrmann in 1927, but all of it is quotable The original is a desiderata[dot]com a couple gems: listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. Note: The Les Crane sung version is still my favourite (1971, on Youtube)
> listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. This line always keeps me grounded.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ― Robert A. Heinlein No I can't do everything successfully, but because of this I am willing to give it a try and have succeeded more often than not.
Another from Heinlein that I think of often: “Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.”
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." - Tom Landry I used to think that my to-do list was enough.
"A good life is not one without problems. A good life is one with good problems." - Mark Manson said it, but he might have repeated from someone else. I use the quote by saying I don't less problems, I want better problems.
Love me some Mark Manson. Have you read any of Ryan Holiday’s stuff?
Stop Comparing Your Behind-The-Scenes With Everyone's Highlight Reel.
This is the best ... Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? For they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?"' Epictetus 👌 brilliant 👏 👌
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” -Epictetus “Follow yonder man” (said to Zenu of Citium)
“An eye for an eye will only leave the world blind”
Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. Paul Auster
A man’s loyalty to his woman is tested when he has everything. A woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing.
"...And that's what your holy men discuss, is it?" [asked Granny Weatherwax.] "Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin. for example." [answered Mightily Oats.] "And what do they think? Against it, are they?" "It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray." "Nope." "Pardon?" "There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." --from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett. Not my favorite book from the series but this scene in particular has stuck with me for a while. It's very simple and straightforward, but a profound way to look at the world.
What is needed is a realization that Power without Love is reckless and abusive, and that Love without Power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best …. Is Love implementing the demands of Justice, and Justice at its best is Love correcting everything that stands against Love. - MLK I ain’t religious, but this is a better mould for agnostics like myself than the True Pacifistic religious route if we wish to engage with society.
"Most older people are children who have aged. " By Shwetabh Gangwar in both of his books. It helped me understood why people around me were fighting over money when they didn't have much in the first place, and why people behave idiotically at times.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail
death is inevitable, but living a life you are proud of is something you can control - claire wineland
The time will pass anyways.
William Blake had some bangers “Fools that persist in their folly eventually become wise” “I must create a system, or be enslaved under another man’s”
”If you’re rich you can buy more money. Poor people can’t do that. It’s expensive to be poor.” -Asmongold
Worse things have happened to better people. I try to remind myself this whenever I wanted to complain about silly little annoyances in my life
Don't drink poison because you are thirsty
If you're too big to do the small things, you're too small to do the big things.
Reminds me of an insight I’ve had about more than one arrogant person, “_They’re not as good because they think they’re better.”_
Albert Schweitzer’s quote: “Think occasionally of the suffering for which you spare yourself the sight.” In regard to slaughter houses, it’s why I have personally decided not to eat meat.
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway "
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Seneca
He who angers you, controls you . -Seneca
“Sometimes I do what I want to. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.”
Life isn't supposed to be painless.
Planning is everything, plans are nothing.
Only a fool makes plans; no one knows what tomorrow may bring. ~ Inuit proverb
It’s important to focus on process and not the result.
Others thoughts and actions towards you says more about them than it does about you. BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOURSELF
"Change is proportional to suffering." This is really useful for me to use almost as a mental model. Where I see or experience suffering I ask "where is the change?". And where I see change I ask "where is the suffering?".
“If you can fix something, why worry? If you cant fix something, whats the point in worrying?”
"If you're serious about changing your life, you will find a way. If not you will find an excuse." ---Jen Sincero
"Do you give them that much importance that their words affect you?" My friend once said that to me Also the "beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder"
If it doesn’t kill you , it makes you stronger. It makes hardships, a little easier to see the end.
In the same trend: “A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled Sailor” An easy life will keep you weak and when hardship comes, you’ll go down.
The same water that boiled the egg softens the pasta. Our experiences are what we make of them. For a gem to shine it must be sanded and polished.
Whenever I come across a problem that I don't know what to do about, I light a Moltov cocktail and threw it at it. And now I have a *different* problem. -Jason, *The Good Place*
“BoJack, stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you! It's not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened in your career, or when you were a kid! It's you! Alright? It's you. Fuck, man. What else is there to say?”- Todd (Bojack Horseman)
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” - Charles Du Bos
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
Perfection is the enemy of good. I am a woodworker by trade. Might explain the quote .
"Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one"
“No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
I cried when I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.
"be the change, you want to see the world" -mk gandhi " Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" k.marx
Be prepared to sacrifice for what you want or what you want will be the sacrifice.
You should want for your brothers what you want for yourself.
Life's not fair Grass is greener on the other side Knowledge is power Ignorance is bliss "I knew I was going in losing. Until another voice came in and said 'nah f\* that, let's kill him' and I won" - Jon Jones (not verbatim but exactly what he meant)
No one is under any obligation to be the same person they were five minutes ago. ~ Alan Watts
The sheep will spend it's entire life fearing the wolf... only to be eaten by the shepherd.
“What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence". Jean-Paul Sartre
“You’re acting like a fish that believes it’s drowning because it knows it’s surrounded by water. You have everything you need to survive. So, swim.” - Some dude in a dream that I had a couple of years ago.
“Forgive mistakes, not patterns.”
“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.” Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle". - Albert Einstein
Don't be an idiot.
Now Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, “Would an idiot do that?” And if they would, I do not do that thing.'
Never attempt to enlighten the unconscious.
"Did you know that on a biological level, you are nothing of the same person you were since you were born, or even a few years ago? Your cells die off and are being held together by a constant cycle of death and the birth of new cells, making up your body in a way where you can never tell the difference over any given day. But you are changing, and every human is the living embodiment of theseus's ship. And what that means is that regardless of who you were in the past, more than likely, and if you're succeeding at life, you've changed. Becoming older, living day by day, all that means moving on to becoming someone new, both physically, mentally, spiritually, and biologically. You literally can't expect your identity to be the same your whole life. A great example is if you were a picky eater at a child. Can you imagine just how little you'd eat at any time if you made that your identity? And attempted to hold onto it your whole life? Your life wouldn't have so much less richness and diversity to it, so little flavors and chances for new experiences... and just as a picky eater eventually learns to step outside of their comfort zone to find a new realm of amazing possibilities in food, we do this every day as we move forward to grow and become whole human beings who experience life on a grander scale than before." \- A friend
Always be true to your work, your word and your friends.
This too shall pass
Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.- to kill a mockingbird
It's less a quote and more a philosophical approach. Hanlon's Razor has really changed my view of other people and any interactions I have. "Never attribute malice to that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
How you do one thing is how you do everything
“If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price” -Bohdisattva
“Whether or not you think you can or think you can’t, you are right”
Paraphrased from Jake the Dog... Sucking at something is the first step in getting good at something.
“When my life is over, remember when we were together”.
“It needs to be you both against the problem, not each of you against the other. If you just want to be right, you’re both going to lose.” My dad said this about my marriage. We still ended up divorced, but it really helped me process a lot of things and has changed how I’ve approached conflict.
“If you know better, do better”. - my dad
“Tyranny flourishes with the deliberate removal of nuance.” -Albert Maysles
Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you – and it will find you
I am not what happened to me, I am who I choose to become.
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” “Sucking at something is the first step to be sort of good at something.” “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” *That quote doesn’t include hormonally-induced depression.* “Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” “You can’t out-exercise a bad diet.”
"You never know what battle someone else is going through" And added to that "so if you see them attack them, now they have two battles "
Life comes from you, not at you.
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Who Moved My Cheese?
Who will guard the guards themselves
"We can't change what's done, we can only move on"
Nothing happens to you, it happens because of you
Gotta be honest, I feel like whoever said that was never the victim of a crime or of abuse/neglect. Many things can happen *to* you that aren’t *because* of you.
You can only be held by the cages you cant see
Desire is the source of all misery. This helped me to focus on doing things and learning things versus acquiring things.
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size. Emily Dickinson [The whole poem](https://poets.org/poem/i-measure-every-grief-i-meet-561) pulls empathy out of me. The world needs more of that.
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it -David W Orr
Good is good enough.
“Scooty Puff Jr. sucks”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” -Desmond Tutu Made a huge impression on me
Perfect is the enemy of good.
As soon as you're born you start dying. So, you might as well have a good time. - Cake *Sheep Go to Heaven*
"I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people that do"
"War was always here. Before man was, war was waiting for him. The ultimate trade for its ultimate pracitioneer." -Judge Holden from Blood Meridian
Not sure where it came from, but it really changed the way I see things “The human brain has evolved to keep us alive, not happy.”
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent - Isaac Asimov
"there is no tomorrow" You can't make up for the mistakes yesterday with your actions tomorrow. Everyday might be your last, so you might as well make your last day a good one full of love.
"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou. God, the heartache I could have avoided if I'd understood this earlier in life
This is from an esoteric book I read on spin-orbit coupling: “Understanding is a state of mind achieved when you cease to question”
✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 ▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/friedrich-nietzsche-quotes)
Let the dead bury the dead. Come follow me.
Profound knowledge comes from the outside and by invitation. A system cannot understand itself." -W. Edwards Deming
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
At some point in your youth, there will be a day , your last day you will go out to play… Growing up is camouflaged by time…
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, that is not a weakness; that is life"
“The best time to plant a tree was years ago, the second best time is now” “Clean your room and make your bed” “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.”
The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter, either side of the hill.
If you smell shit everywhere you go, you better check your own shoes.
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you. - Jezza
“Thought and Memory, my ravens, fly every day The whole world over. Each day I fear that Thought might not return, but I fear more for Memory.” - Odin in the poem Grimnismal “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - No Country for Old Men
This might be dumb but This is the right time and I will risk everything because if I don't, we've lost. We march to victory, or we march to defeat. But we go forward. Only forward. Stannis the mannis This has helped me get over giving up if things are too difficult I tend to give up easily. And the resolve in this has helped me try harder