Michael to Jim, about Pam: "If you like her so much, don't give up."
Jim: "She's engaged."
Michael: "BFD. Engaged ain't married."
~ The Office, Season 2, Episode 11, Booze Cruise
Oh, my friend! Been there, done that...
Holly thinks that this relationship is over. I am not going to give up that easy.
I am going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
~ Michael, in the Office, Season 5, Episode 6, Employee Transfer
Worth pondering...
Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses. Second only to the neck.
~ Dwight Shrute, the Office, Season 9, Episode 17, The Farm
Toby, I often ask the same question!
Why you always gotta be so mean to me?
~ Toby Flenderson, talking to God in the Office, Season 7, Christening
Oh, Andy!
My ex is meeting my sex.Which is always scary, you know?And not just because you think they might talk about your penis. That's just part of it.
~ Andy Bernard, Season 8, Episode 10 of the Office, Christmas Wishes
I've often observed this...
If you are observant enough, people usually tell on themselves.
~ found on the internet
Herd mentality
What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently.
It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting the think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.
~ Schopenhauer
Garrrrrr, Matey!
I know we wouldn't have chosen each other, not in a million years.
But all we have is this one life, so shouldn't we at least try?
~ Mary Bonnet, to her husband, the Gentleman Pirate, Steve Bonnet, in Our Flag Means Death
Oof! This hits too close to home...
The saddest tombstone I can think of:
He gave his life to enhance corporate value
I'm not sure about this...
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than have answers which might be wrong.
I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things. But I'm not absolutely sure about anything.
~ Richard P. Feynman (Physicist)
My mantra for today...
Before opening one's mouth, ask yourself:
1. Is it true?
2. Is it necessary?
3. Is it kind?
~ Rumi's three gates of speech
True everywhere
Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
~ Gandalf, in response to Galadriel, movie version of The Hobbit
Furtive! What a great word!
Never be furtive.
If you are doing something you don't want other to find out about, it's probably wrong.
~ Internet wisdom
Oh, dear...
Marriage is a 50-year conversation.
Marry someone you want to talk to for the rest of your life.
~ Internet wisdom
Gun control (via a Buddhist parable)
A man is shot with a poisoned arrow.
The arrow piercing his flesh, the man demands answers. What kind of arrow is it? Who shot the arrow? What kind of poison is it? What feathers are on the arrow, a peacock’s or a hawk’s?
But all these questions miss the point, the Buddha tells his disciple. What is important is pulling out that poison arrow, and tending to the wound.
Wait. What?
The number one threat is the strength, and that strength that we've built is inflation.
~ President Joe Biden
Wisdom from Carlos
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castenada
Applicable to many situations these days...
A fish rots from the head down
~ ancient proverb, precise origin unknown
Truth from Gunny
You have to work hard for envy.
You get pity for free.
~ Guenther Steiner, Principal for the Haas F1 team
We could all use more snow...I mean kindness
Kindness is like snow;it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Khalil Gibran
Alas, I know this all too well...
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.It is not logical, but is often true.
~ Spock on Star Trek, Season 2, Amok Time
My new mantra!
Be curious, not judgmental
~ Ted Lasso, quoting Walt Whitman
Link to good article discussing this as a leadership principle
Not sure I get it, but it sounds profound...
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
~ Rumi
Alternatively speaking, of course...
The truth is,
if I could live in an alternate universe,
I'd live in one where we never broke up.
~ Dr. Sturgis to Meemaw (in a day dream) on Young Sheldon
From the mouths of babes...even a genius babe
Will you please stop focusing on that you don't have and try to focus on what I don't have?
~ Sheldon, to Tam, in Young Sheldon
Meemaw gives good advice...
A little exercise helps you get your head out of your BUTT!
~ Meemaw, on Young Sheldon
Interesting point...
I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people — and this is accelerated by social media — there is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.'
If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.
~ Barack Obama, 2019
Perhaps better said BEFORE the attack
At your highest moment, be careful.That’s when the devil comes for you.
~ Denzel Washington, to Will Smith, AFTER Smith slapped Chris Rock for insulting his wife (2022 Oscar Awards ceremony)
Rock Chalk!
Son, don't worry about the mules, just load the wagon.
~ Bill Self, Sr. (a basketball coach), to his son, Bill Self, Jr. (also a basketball coach)
More (vice) presidential word salad
It is time for us to do what we have been doing.
And that time is every day.
~ Vice President Kamala Harris
But...but...I wanna!
Don't call me all the time, okay?
We're not boyfriend/girlfriend.
~ Alana, in Licorice Pizza
An oldie but a goodie!
Picture a skinny little guy, a shrimp, a nothing. He walks into a lumber camp looking for a job.
The foreman is skeptical, so the shrimp steps up and fells a towering oak in 90 seconds.
“Where’d you learn that?” says the foreman.
“In the Sahara Forest,” replies the guy.
“You mean the Sahara Desert,” the foreman corrects.
“Sure, now,” the guy says.
~ Myron Cohen (a comedian popular on the Ed Sullivan Show)
A lesson I know, but I usually fail to put into practice...
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made.
If you want a different result, make a different choice.
Not any time soon, apparently...
When will our conscience grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Obvious, but yet I need reminding
If you want something different, you must do something different
~ an eternal truth of the universe
A bit spicy...
Friend: So what's the plan?
Valtteri: One stop. Fuck them all.
~ Valtteri Bottas, fighting for his seat in Mercedes, on Drive to Survive
epilog: Valtteri, under team orders, let Lewis Hamilton pass him on the way to an eventual win, and more points in the driver championship.
Valtteri finished 3rd in that race, showing himself to be a consummate team player
Does this remind you of someone?
You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.They don't alter their views to fit the facts.They alter the facts to fit their views.
~ Doctor Who (1977)
I know a person who could use this advice
When you are angry, you're just a character in someone else's story.
~ Kacy, a character in The Devil Wore Anna
Good advice for everyone!
Absolute victory every day!
~ the mantra of Ronald K. Brown, dancer and choreographer, who suffered a stroke in April 2021.
Ever have days like this?
To bartender: Could I have a lot of shots of something?
~ Katherine Hastings, in American Auto
I try to avoid politics, but...Ooooo, we are SO screwed...
Ukraine is a country in Europe, m'kay? It exists next to another country called Russia, m'kay? Russia is a bigger country, m'kay?
Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so basically that's wrong, m'kay? It's wrong to invade smaller countries, m'kay?
~ Kamala Harris, February 2022, Vice Fricken President of the United Fricken States of America 😱
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