Eternal wisdom

Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are.

~ Proverbs 26:4

Who needs to be in a coma to ask?

Who am I?

Where am I going?

~ Tony Soprano, while in a coma, in The Sopranos

I know the feeling

You do your job and you go cry alone.

~ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

This kind of makes me sad

Learn what the magician knows, and nothing is magic anymore. 

~ Richard Bach

Every person, all the events in your life, are there because your have drawn them there.

What you choose to do with them is up to you.

~ Richard Bach

Finders keepers, losers weepers

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding the truth.

~ Ludwig Borne

Been there. Done that...

And I'm under no illusions that she could solve what ails me, but when I'm with her, the world just feels...

...more interesting.

~ Coach Beard, on Ted Lasso

Troubling, indeed

In all my happiest memories, I'm single.

That troubles me. 

~ Coach Beard, in Ted Lasso

My new credo

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,

and when we escape like squirrels

turning in the cages of our personality

and get into the forests again, 

we shall shiver with cold and fright 

but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.

Cool unlying life will rush in, 

and passion will make our bodies taut with power,

we shall stamp our feet with new power

and old things will fall down.

We shall laugh, 

and institutions will curl up like burnt paper. 

~ DH Lawrence

I see application today also...

This is an old joke from the Soviet Union: 

Two dirt-poor peasants, Igor and Boris, are just barely scratching a living out of their tiny plots of land. 

The only difference being that Boris has a goat and Igor doesn’t. 

Then a fairy appears to Igor one day and says, “I’ll grant you any wish.” 

And he says, “I wish that Boris’ goat should die."