If you physically distance, the emotional distance will inevitably follow.
~ Megyn Kelly, discussing relationships
The more things change...
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulties and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Where do dreams go to die?
Comfort is a drug.
Once you get used to it, it becomes addicting. Give a weak person consistent stimulation, good food, cheap entertainment and they'll throw their ambitions right out the window.
The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.
~ found on the internet
Alas!
Happy endings do not exist, Kate.
At least not in real life.
~ Edwina Sharma, to Kathani ‘Kate’ Sharma, in Bridgerton
Ouch! Those props hurt...
You got to stop being a manatee, Daya!
Floating around, with your big eyes,
Waiting for a boat to come by and ram a propeller into your head!
~ Aleida to Daya on Orange is the New Black
Agreed (as a discontented man surrounded by relative luxury)
Luxury is artificial poverty, contentment is natural wealth.
~ Socrates
Why I read history
For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Too often we hold to the clichés of our forebears….We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
~ President John Kennedy
Unquestionably!
The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask.
~ Dr. Voung
A koan
Banzan overhears a conversation between a butcher and a customer:
"Give me the best piece of meat you have," the customer said."Everything in my shop is the best". the butcher replied. "You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best."
At these words, Banzan became enlightened
Dracarys!
I'd rather be killed majestically by a dragon than nibbled to death by ducks.
~ Andy Ihnatko
Ouch!
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
~ Thomas Sowell
Looking for my Piglet...
"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh.
There was a pause.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet.
"No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't think I do."
"That's okay," said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.
"What are you doing?" asked Pooh.
"Nothing, really," said Piglet. "Only, I know what Difficult Days are like. I quite often don't feel like talking about it on my Difficult Days either.
"But goodness," continued Piglet, "Difficult Days are so much easier when you know you've got someone there for you. And I'll always be here for you, Pooh."
And as Pooh sat there, working through in his head his Difficult Day, while the solid, reliable Piglet sat next to him quietly, swinging his little legs...he thought that his best friend had never been more right."
~ A.A. Milne
No fun, indeed...
Charlie, there are a million things in this universe that you can have, and a million things you can't have.
It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are!
~ Captain Kirk, to Charlie, when Yoeman Rand spurned his advances, in Charlie X
Or so I've read...
There are people who write books.
And there are people who read books.
Then there are people who lead lives that others write about.
~ a saying I heard long ago...
Funny, not funny...
It's pretty funny that the world is ending and we all just have to keep going to our little jobs. LOL.
~ tweet by Kath Barbadoro, stand-up comedian
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