Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what your believe in.
~ Aristotle
Eternal truths
Yikes! Sad, but true...
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four.
~ novelist and lifelong bachelor Samuel Butler wrote to his friend Eliza Savage, in 1884.
True then. True now.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln
More word salad...
I think it's very important...for us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist in our present. And to be able to contextualize it. To understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.
~ Vice President Kamala Harris
Indeed...
You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children.
Your success as a family, and our success a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
~ Barbara Bush
Me, too!
I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
~ Richard Feynman
The secret is acknowledging the charlatan
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
~ Carl Sagan, in The Demon-Haunted World
Deep...don't waste your life
Listen well everyone
Great is the problem of life and death
No forever gone gone
Awake awake each one
Don't waste your life
~ old Buddhist poem (sent to a friend by teen-aged Steve Jobs)
Grim determination, indeed...
The Finnish way of life is summed up in “sisu,” a trait said to be part of the national character. The word roughly translates to “grim determination in the face of hardships", such as the country’s long winters.
Even in adversity, a Finn is expected to persevere, without complaining.
Back in the day when it wasn’t that easy to survive the winter, people had to struggle, and then it’s kind of been passed along the generations,”
Our parents were this way. Our grandparents were this way. Tough and not worrying about everything. Just living life.”
~ Matias From, age 18, finnish citizen, in a NYT article on Finnish happiness
'Gratitude' is my mantra for this week
Being sad or being not content with our life would be seen as ungrateful.
~ Clara Paasimaki, in a New York Times article on happiness
Wait. What?
There isn’t just one model of enduring happy marriage. But the usual contemporary ideal begins with sexual attraction and passionate romantic feelings and turns into a long-term mutual engagement, with physical intimacy as a big part of it.
~ The Ethicist, New York Times Magazine
He’s not wrong…
Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally.
A man is only loved under the condition that he provides something.
~ Chris Rock
Odd connection
Oscar gets caught cheating with Angela's husband.
Angela: YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MY FRIEND!
(later)
Angela: I feel so stupid. I sit next to him every day.
Dwight: You're not stupid. Jazz is stupid.
Angela (crying): Jazz IS stupid! I mean, just play the right notes!
~ in The Office
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