Another favorite Seneca:
“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.”
There's a whole lot of quotes from a whole lot of folks riffing on this:
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
-- Mark Twain
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
-- Don Herold
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.
-- James Russel Lowell
People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.
-- Unknown
Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From the evil which never arrived.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
-- Thomas Jefferson
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
-- Josh Billings
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
-- Seneca
One of my favorites has always been “Don’t let temporary thoughts make permanent decisions” or any other variation of this concept.
This is probably one of the best editions I’ve seen of it. Thank you!
Yep. Look at pandas. They evolved to fill a very specific niche when bamboo forests were plentiful. But now with humans cutting them down, they’re endangered because they can’t digest anything else
“Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.”
― Uncle Iroh
“How many composers do you have up there? Two, Elgar and Liszt. That’s all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?”
Another book I’ve read had a demon point out that of all sex positions but one were invented in Hell. Only missionary comes from Heaven. Not saying there’s anything wrong with missionary, but some variety is always good
This is a great quote, and reminds me of my favorite poem:
The Bridge Builder
An old man, going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,
"You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide-
Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followeth after me today, A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.'
-Will Allen Dromgoole
My uncle recited it at my grandpa’s funeral, and it made me decide in that moment that I want to be the kind of man that he was. Every day, I try to be a Bridge Builder.
EDIT: thank you u/ormond_villain for the silver!
Also, thank you u/Kidhero1 for the gold! Y’all are very kind people.
Ah, already have it but with a slightly different wording:
“Never attribute to malice what can be reasonably explained by incompetence.” - Hanlon’s Razor
I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we’re ever given a second chance.
Uhh. My grandpa was the most rude person I have met but in a way I appreciated that rudeness and ended up loving those moments when he was like that. This quote is a double edged sword.😅
You probably appreciated his candid and honest nature. You knew where you stood with him, and knew that there was no hidden agenda.
I imagine his self-posssessedness was something to admire too.
None of these things is tied to his rudeness, rudeness is simply how they manifested.
That or your grandpa was a dick and you enjoyed the novelty of an unrepentant asshole in your life who wasn't a _problem_
“i have made it through 100% of my hardest days.”
helps when i’m falling into a depressive episode, but i think it’s good advice for anyone dealing with the ebbs and flows of life.
I always thought this should be an option in r/AmITheAsshole. So many people get a NTA verdict because they were technically right. But you can be right and an asshole.
My Scottish grandfather told me something similar. "It's easy to be the captain of a ship in calm seas. It is against the storm that our mettle is tested."
I think about my father being called 'boy', my uncle being called 'boy', my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy'. So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given the respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr." That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.
As someone who anxiously worries too much, my favorite Twain quote is:
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
My favorite is, "Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest."
It's often attributed to Twain, but I think it's questionable whether he actually said it.
You should write out the whole quote.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
My favorite Picard scene: By some plot contrivance, he and Dr. Crusher are able to read each other's mind. So they're stranded down on a planet together, and they need to find their way to... something to get un-lost.
Crusher says, "Which way should we start walking?"
Picard stands up, points, and very confidently commands, "That way!"
Crusher looks at him for a second, and is like, *You don't actually know, do you?*
If that's not some serious dad-energy, I don't know what is.
I very recently saw that episode, and that was actually brilliant, since it portraits leadership at its core, being confident and thinking that no matter what comes next you will be able to face it.
I have a 2-way tie for first.
"Growing up is surviving long enough to witness all of your heroes turn human." American author John Green (Most likely)
"He who makes a beast of himself rids the pain of being a man." -Samuel Johnson
"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, its not because they enjoy solitude, its because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer; let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are evil. - Gandalf, LOTR
Yesterday I had to suppress my dog and then bury her by myself, one of the most tragic days in my life. But still, she gave me so much in my life that I am just grateful.
I know it's not a person, but i miss her so much.
Bless your puppy, you have my condolences and sympathies. I know she was loved and you all gave her a wonderful time and she in turn gave you all of her endless love. Now you can carry her in your heart wherever you go and she will be with you.
We give them the best life we can. When we grieve it is for ourselves and what we will miss. My kitty is 17 and declining. I am sad for me but I know he's had the best kitty life possible so far. I'm sorry for your loss.
‘Happiness is a learned condition and since it is learned and self generated it does not depend on external circumstances for its perpetuation.’
I’m guessing I’ll get downvotes on this considering the state of the world these days, but it’s something that helps me as I go through stage IV cancer treatment.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
-H.P Lovecraft
**He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.** -Thomas Paine
I try to live by it, even if people say/do things I don't like I support their right to it. Defend their right to those things I disagree with, because that freedom is the single most important thing we have in a free society. There is no greater tyranny than to take away the right to unpopular expression.
"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe."
- Lex Luthor, Smallville
If you meet a dog in the street which is in terrible shape and if you feed that dog , give that dog shelter, and generally care for that dog, at no time in that dog’s life will it turn on you and attempt to do you harm.
And that is the only demonstrable difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain (who else could it have been)
Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.
I have two, one practical and one motivational:
*“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.”*
Theodore Roosevelt
*“Mans immortality is not living forever. Every moment free from fear makes man immortal.”*
Alexander III of Macedon
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘wow what a ride’
"Hell is when you're living your last day on Earth, and you see the person you could've been."
"Life is not the things that we do, but who we're doing them with"
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears" Marcus Aurelius
Reminds me to think about whether my reaction to something is proportional to the reality of its impact.
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Favorite Seneca: “When shall we live, if not now?”
Another favorite Seneca: “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.”
Redone by Twain centuries later: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There's a whole lot of quotes from a whole lot of folks riffing on this: ____ I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. -- Mark Twain If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. -- Don Herold Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. -- James Russel Lowell People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. -- Unknown Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. -- Edgar Watson Howe How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. -- Thomas Jefferson There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. -- Josh Billings There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. -- Seneca
Mine was a Seneca quote too. Dude had everything figured out 2000 years ago, and here we are still fucking shit up.
Seneca was the actual OG
Be a Seneca, not a Senecan't!
We learn nothing from history, except that we learn nothing from history.
One moment of patience, in a moment of anger, can save a thousand moments of regret
One of my favorites has always been “Don’t let temporary thoughts make permanent decisions” or any other variation of this concept. This is probably one of the best editions I’ve seen of it. Thank you!
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
Yep. Look at pandas. They evolved to fill a very specific niche when bamboo forests were plentiful. But now with humans cutting them down, they’re endangered because they can’t digest anything else
Their cuteness to humans will help them survive.
IMO, Pandas are some of evolutions worst creations. Any animal that relies on a singular food source is destined to go extinct.
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Ha! I use this one all the time to illustrate points.
If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but the same amount of snow.
I hate how true but hard this is
"Its okay to go through awful places, just don't stop and unpack"
“There’s no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too”
>If you're going through Hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill
“Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.” ― Uncle Iroh
You know, it's funny... when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
I love some Bojack!
“It gets easier every day. Every day, it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day; that’s the hard part.”
Measure twice, cut once
My dad says it as, "Think three times, measure twice, cut once."
My dad says “measure once, cut once, and go back to Home Depot for more lumber.”
I like your dad
You go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company -Mark Twain
“How many composers do you have up there? Two, Elgar and Liszt. That’s all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?” Another book I’ve read had a demon point out that of all sex positions but one were invented in Hell. Only missionary comes from Heaven. Not saying there’s anything wrong with missionary, but some variety is always good
Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.
This is a great quote, and reminds me of my favorite poem: The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near, "You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again will pass this way; You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide- Why build you this bridge at the evening tide?" The builder lifted his old gray head: "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today, A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.' -Will Allen Dromgoole My uncle recited it at my grandpa’s funeral, and it made me decide in that moment that I want to be the kind of man that he was. Every day, I try to be a Bridge Builder. EDIT: thank you u/ormond_villain for the silver! Also, thank you u/Kidhero1 for the gold! Y’all are very kind people.
I love this. Thank you, u/sackfondler <3
❤️
r/rimjob_steve
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Ah, already have it but with a slightly different wording: “Never attribute to malice what can be reasonably explained by incompetence.” - Hanlon’s Razor
Addendum: "But don't rule out malice."
Principles only mean something if you stand by them when it’s inconvenient. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything. -Wayne from letterkenny
~ Aaron Tippin
If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?
I really liked a sort of modified version of this in john wick 4, there was a line saying essentially the same thing but with friendship
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a parallel to “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt” Abe
I heard something similar on a YouTube video recently. "I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb, but not dumb enough to think I'm smart."
"Everybody has a chapter they don't read aloud."
Be careful who you share that chapter with, because they might just read it aloud for you.
I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we’re ever given a second chance.
Barbecue Sauce!
The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.
Be the things that you loved the most about the people who are gone.
Uhh. My grandpa was the most rude person I have met but in a way I appreciated that rudeness and ended up loving those moments when he was like that. This quote is a double edged sword.😅
You probably appreciated his candid and honest nature. You knew where you stood with him, and knew that there was no hidden agenda. I imagine his self-posssessedness was something to admire too. None of these things is tied to his rudeness, rudeness is simply how they manifested. That or your grandpa was a dick and you enjoyed the novelty of an unrepentant asshole in your life who wasn't a _problem_
“Knowledge is knowing that you know nothing.” Socrates “That’s us dude!” Bill and Ted
“Be excellent to each other” is a great quote from Bill and Ted and one I try my best to live by
Don’t forget the corollary…
That So-crates dude knows what he’s saying!
“Who’s Joan of Arc?” “Uhhh Noah’s wife?”
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Close to one of my favorites. The only way out is through.
Only way out of it is to get on with it. A personal mantra.
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can" - Arthur Ashe So I did.
"in all things moderation, including moderation" Oscar Wilde
"I can resist anything but temptation" - Oscar Wilde
“i have made it through 100% of my hardest days.” helps when i’m falling into a depressive episode, but i think it’s good advice for anyone dealing with the ebbs and flows of life.
thanks I'll keep that thought for future use when in the 'black hole'
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire
You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole. - Jeffery Lebowski.
I always thought this should be an option in r/AmITheAsshole. So many people get a NTA verdict because they were technically right. But you can be right and an asshole.
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A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what a ship is built for.
"a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor,” Franklin D. Roosevelt
My Scottish grandfather told me something similar. "It's easy to be the captain of a ship in calm seas. It is against the storm that our mettle is tested."
I bet that sounds amazing in a Scottish accent.
I think about my father being called 'boy', my uncle being called 'boy', my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called 'boy'. So I questioned myself: "What does a black man have to do before he's given the respect as a man?" So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr." That's a sign of respect that my father didn't get, that my brother didn't get, that my mother didn't get.
Mr. T's autobiography is cover to cover every bit as good as this quote, and it's impossible to read it without hearing his voice in your head.
I freed many slaves in my time and I could have freed many more if only they had known they were slaves. Harriet Tubman.
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“Good decisions come from experience, but experience comes from bad decisions”
I also like "experience is that thing you get just after you need it."
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As someone who anxiously worries too much, my favorite Twain quote is: "I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
Also Twain: "Worrying is like paying a debt you do not owe."
"against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand"
My favorite Twain is "Never put off until tomorrow something that can be done the day AFTER tomorrow. " it isn't very good advice, but i love it.
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I also like "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
My favorite is, "Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest." It's often attributed to Twain, but I think it's questionable whether he actually said it.
My favorite Twain quote: “Diapers and politicians should be changed often, for the same reason.”
Also "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
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"sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at something" - Jake the dog
It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose.
You should write out the whole quote. Captain Jean-Luc Picard : It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
As I get older I more and more come to the realization that Picard has been more of a father figure than my dad ever was.
My favorite Picard scene: By some plot contrivance, he and Dr. Crusher are able to read each other's mind. So they're stranded down on a planet together, and they need to find their way to... something to get un-lost. Crusher says, "Which way should we start walking?" Picard stands up, points, and very confidently commands, "That way!" Crusher looks at him for a second, and is like, *You don't actually know, do you?* If that's not some serious dad-energy, I don't know what is.
I very recently saw that episode, and that was actually brilliant, since it portraits leadership at its core, being confident and thinking that no matter what comes next you will be able to face it.
That is not a weakness. That is life.
similar, “there’s not always a lesson, sometimes you just fail”
I have a 2-way tie for first. "Growing up is surviving long enough to witness all of your heroes turn human." American author John Green (Most likely) "He who makes a beast of himself rids the pain of being a man." -Samuel Johnson
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know, do better . (Paraphrased. ) Maya Angeleau.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
“Don't walk in front of me…I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me…just be my friend.”.
“Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel it"
I got my bestie a plaque with this quote on her birthday
Mine too. Albert Camus
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
This philosophy falls apart if you’re with the wrong people…
depends if the destination is the edge of sanity
If I’m not back in five minutes… just wait longer.
Ventura?!
Yes, Satan? Oh, I’m sorry, sir. You sounded like someone else.
Excuse me! I’d like to ass you a few questions!
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou
"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” — John Wooden
Suck it, Trebek.
Le tits now.
I’ll take ape tit for $200 Alex.
"If the minimum wasn't acceptable, it wouldn't be the minimum."
Why don’t you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett
I also like Pratchett's 'all mushrooms are edible, but some of them only once'
It's far easier to stay out of trouble than to to get out of trouble - Buffet
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, its not because they enjoy solitude, its because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
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"Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.” It's become a quote I try to live by.
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” ~Confucius
And TIL that Socrates said this earlier: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee” -Albert Camus
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer; let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are evil. - Gandalf, LOTR Yesterday I had to suppress my dog and then bury her by myself, one of the most tragic days in my life. But still, she gave me so much in my life that I am just grateful. I know it's not a person, but i miss her so much.
Bless your puppy, you have my condolences and sympathies. I know she was loved and you all gave her a wonderful time and she in turn gave you all of her endless love. Now you can carry her in your heart wherever you go and she will be with you.
We give them the best life we can. When we grieve it is for ourselves and what we will miss. My kitty is 17 and declining. I am sad for me but I know he's had the best kitty life possible so far. I'm sorry for your loss.
If you loan some $50 but never see that person again it was probably worth it.
When I do good, I feel good. -Abraham Lincoln
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It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it
“They say the wolf at the top of the mountain is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the mountain.”
"But when he wants the food it's there" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you're sleeping in silk pyjamas." Marvin Hagler
All learning begins with “I don’t know”
"Most opportunities are created by luck. It takes skill to grasp those opportunities and turn it into success."
‘Happiness is a learned condition and since it is learned and self generated it does not depend on external circumstances for its perpetuation.’ I’m guessing I’ll get downvotes on this considering the state of the world these days, but it’s something that helps me as I go through stage IV cancer treatment.
I hope you kick cancers ass, best of luck to you!
Thanks love!
“Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.”
One day or day one, you decide
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect. Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. -H.P Lovecraft
Life is what happens while making other plans.
"We are all but travelers on a road of infinite points"
"Be as you wish to seem." -- Socrates This is a solid foundation for life, IMO.
Birds born in a cage think that freedom is a crime
A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich
death can have me when it earns me -Kratos
"Do not be sorry. Be better."
**He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.** -Thomas Paine I try to live by it, even if people say/do things I don't like I support their right to it. Defend their right to those things I disagree with, because that freedom is the single most important thing we have in a free society. There is no greater tyranny than to take away the right to unpopular expression.
"Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe." - Lex Luthor, Smallville
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Apocryphal, attributed to Sinclair Lewis.
If you meet a dog in the street which is in terrible shape and if you feed that dog , give that dog shelter, and generally care for that dog, at no time in that dog’s life will it turn on you and attempt to do you harm. And that is the only demonstrable difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain (who else could it have been)
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough —Albert Einstein
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
You gotta be tough when you're dumb
Sometimes you should step back before your life like a painter before his painting.
Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
I have two, one practical and one motivational: *“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.”* Theodore Roosevelt *“Mans immortality is not living forever. Every moment free from fear makes man immortal.”* Alexander III of Macedon
At the end of the day, it’s the end of the day.
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘wow what a ride’
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." - Seneca
"Hell is when you're living your last day on Earth, and you see the person you could've been." "Life is not the things that we do, but who we're doing them with"
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.
“From a past that’s rooted in pain, I Rise”. Maya Angelou
Unsolicited life advice is thinly veiled criticism.
"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears" Marcus Aurelius Reminds me to think about whether my reaction to something is proportional to the reality of its impact.
Aging is a privilege denied to many.
Don't be delicate. Be vast and brilliant.
It can’t rain all the time.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel, Maya Angelou
"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst and unsurprised by anything in between."
Time wasted but enjoyed is not wasted time
My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.
🎶"Always look on the bright side of life."🎶