Tom: I love you
Shiv: I love you, too.
Tom: Well, it's good to know that we don't have an unbalanced love portfolio.
~ Succession
It's good in love and in finances
Music and Dancing
There is nothing more notable in Socrates
than that he found time, while he was an old man,
to learn music and dancing,
and thought it was time well spent.
~ Fritz Gilbert, the Retirement Manifesto
Wondering, indeed...
Shiv: What are you saying?
Tom: I wonder if the sad I'd be with you is less than the sad I'd be without you.
~ Succession, Season 2, Episode 10
If I had a nickel...
Aegon (to his mother): "Do you love me?"
Queen Alicent: "... ... ...You imbecile..."
~ House of the Dragon
My mantra for the next year...
I choose to be content.I realize that contentment is a choice.I am consciously choosing contentment in each moment.
Pretty good crystal ball...
The North can make a steam-engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make.You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared…At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, and shut out from the markets of Europe by blockade as you will be, your cause will begin to wane.
~ General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1860
Or with regard to today's economic forecast...
In the end, this shadow is but a small and passing thing.
There is light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.
Find the light. And the shadow will not find you.
~ Bronwyn, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Rings of Power, to her son before a big battle
And again
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
~ e.e. cummings
What he said...
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
~ e.e. cummings
Now, where's my spoon?
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.
~ Shel Silverstein
But I've tried my best!
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Too short indeed...
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones that don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason.If you get the chance, take it. If if changes you, let it.Nobody said it would be easy - they just promised it would be worth it.
~ Dr. Suess
Are you certain about that?
I am certain of nothing.
~ Greek saying, and Anthony Bourdain's operating principle
I disagree!
Never ague with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you down with experience.
~ Mark Twain
Well put...
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
~ in The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
That applies to our current outrage culture, too.
Once you've slain all the big dragons, there's only little dragon to fight.
~ The St. Georgian Retirement Syndrome
He said 'stimulus'...
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Even relationships?
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion.And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
~ Alfred Perlman, CEO Pennsylvania Railroad, 1958
But, but...I'm afraid!
You cannot live your life in fear, or you will forsake the best parts of it.
~ Daemon Targaryen, to Rhaehyra Targaryen, House of the Dragon
Noted...
Gratitude is a path walked daily, and is especially endearing when in service to others.
~ Renee Blanche
Good advice!
First, know when to engage. Arguments easy to start and hard to end. For a dispute to go well, it should be real, important and specific. You need to have a point to make, not just an emotional conflict or complaint to air. If someone has hurt you, figure out why; that becomes a real basis for argument.
Next, pause to consider how important that point is and whether it’s worth arguing over.
Finally, stick to the specific dispute at hand so that the argument doesn’t expand or spiral. If the disagreement really is over the dishwasher (and look, there’s often cause), don’t let it become a referendum on your marriage.
~ an article in the New York Times (How to Argue Well), paraphrasing Bo Seo's book Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
I've never met an envious billionaire, either...
The world is not driven by green, it's driven by envy.
And so the fact that everybody's five times better off then they used to be, the take it for granted.
All they think about is somebody else having more now and it's not fair that he should have it and they don't.
That's the reason God came down and told Moses that he couldn't envy his neighbor's wife or even his donkey. Even the old Jews were having trouble with envy!
It's built into the nature of things.
It's weird for somebody my age, because I was in the middle of the Great Depression, and the hardship was unbelievable. I was safer walking around in Omaha in the evening (back then) than I currently am in Los Angeles after all this great wealth and so forth.
So I have no way of doing anything about it. I can't change the fact that a lot of people are very unhappy and feel very abused after everything has improved about 600 percent, because there's still somebody who has more.
I've conquered envy in my own life. I don't envy anybody. I don't give a damn what somebody else has.
But other people are going crazy about it
~ Charlie Munger, billionaire, and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Instagram is an envy multiplier
~ Elon Musk, also a billionaire
Well, this explains a lot...
Love burns hottest when you're playing with fire.
~ found on the interwebs
Nor 'basket of deplorables'...
It probably wasn't the unwashed masses who coined the term 'unwashed masses'.
~ Greg Gutfeld, discussing the beautiful people attending the 2022 Met Gala in New York City
Bill, I ask myself the same thing nearly every day...
How did we get to be this shitty country, that we can't do anything?
~ Bill Maher, on Real Time with Bill Maher, on how we can't monitor and track abuse in government COVID payment
A little outer space humor!
Captain, I respectfully submit that the attractiveness of the ship's occupant makes rescue imperative!
~ Lt. Malloy to Capt. Mercer, the Orville
Madness, indeed...
Princess Ceinwyn: "Do you understand that madness? (meaning love)"
Derfel:
"I do understand that you can look in someone's eyes
and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them,
and know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat,
and that their company is all your heart can ever desire,
and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft, and lost."
Princess Ceinwyn: "Has that every happened to you, Lord Derfel?"
"It has never happened until this moment, my Lady."
~ Derfel to Princess Ceinwyn, in The Winter King
Sometimes, yes
Sometimes, the only reason why you won’t let go of what’s making you sad is because it was the only thing that made you happy.
~ found on the interwebs
Indeed...
The hardest thing I have ever done is to walk away still madly in love with you.
~ found on the interwebs
There's always a last time. We just don't know when...
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time
~ Ilsa to Rick, in Cabalanca
Wait, what?
There's what's right and there's what's right and never the twain shall meet.
~ H.I. McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) to Ed (Holly Hunter), in Raising Arizona
If only...
Brie: "Brady, I'm in love with you."
Brady: "Right now that's true. And that's enough for me."
~ Star-struck couple, in bed, on Virgin River
I can't decide about this...
Be decisive.
Right or wrong, make a decision.
The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision.
~ found on the interwebs
As in Mind, so in Manifestation
Imagine what you want then get out of the way
Remember energy follows thought so be careful what you say
So be careful what you ask for
Make sure it’s really what you want
Because your mind is made for thinking
And energy follows thought
~ Willie Nelson, in Energy follows Thought, on the A Beautiful Time album
Love is inefficient
Your presence here is interfering with my efficiency.
~ Kirk, to Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas (who beguiled Kirk, with her love-potion tears) - Star Trek
Whaaat?!
Not all marriages are based on love.
In real life, you don't always get what you want.
~ Jack's dad, to Jack, in Virgin River
Shhhh! It's my secret!
It's hard to cite my sources when the source is my ass that I'm pulling these answers out of.
~ found on the interwebs
In life, as in politics
Insufficient facts always invite danger.
~ Spock, Star Trek, Season 1, Episode 24 (“Space Seed,” 1968)
We call that 'virtue signaling' today, Albert
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~ Albert Einstein
Ha, ha
You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you’ll just weep yourself to death.
~ Merlin, to Derfil, in The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell
If only...
I have come to the conclusion that you need to go after what you want, even if it's the rougher road.
~ Hope, in Virgin River
Words to live by...
If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally.In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.
~ Professor Richard Feynman, Physicist
Specifics, indeed
Specifics, Doctor.
Labels do not make arguments.
~ Spock, to Dr. McCoy, when discussing a new crew member in Star Trek
Wait, what?
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
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