You shouldn’t worry about criticism from somebody that you wouldn’t ask for advice.
~ Aaron Rodger
...a journey...
You shouldn’t worry about criticism from somebody that you wouldn’t ask for advice.
~ Aaron Rodger
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
~ John Muir
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later.
I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
~ John Wayne
Radical independence is the other end of codependence.
It’s a different way to medicate your pain of not connecting and a lack of trust.
1) When you give a government a power, it will never voluntarily relinquish it2) If you give a government a power, it will ultimately abuse that power to the maximum extent possible3) Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart
If you’re bored, go on a walk.
If you’re anxious, go on a walk.
If you lack ideas, go on a walk.
If you need space, go on a walk
If you need exercise, go on a walk
If you need sunlight, go on a walk.
Walking is a medicine
Don’t chase, don’t beg, don’t stress, don’t be desperate.
When you relax, it will come to you.
~ Stoic Wisdon
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Your life is a precious gift from your parents.
Think about them and the rest of your family. You don't have to suffer alone.
The more that is spent, the worse it gets, because the money doesn’t go to the homeless, it goes to the hundreds of “charities” that then treat the homeless as sources of revenue.
The more homeless there are, the more money these organizations get, so their incentive is to increase, not decrease, homelessness!
Whatever you incentivize will happen.
~ Elon Musk
It's called the Cobra Effect.
In colonial India, under British rule, the city of Delhi had a problem with cobras. To control the cobra population, the government offered a bounty for every dead cobra.
Huge numbers of dead cobra were handed in but the cobra problem got worse, not better. Why? Because people realized they could profit from this bounty by breeding cobras, not to kill them in the wild, but to kill them for the bounty. This turned into a small-scale cobra farming operation.
When the government became aware of this practice, they discontinued the bounty program. Without the incentive, the cobra breeders released their now-worthless snakes into the wild. As a result, the cobra population in Delhi ended up increasing rather than decreasing, exacerbated by the government's own policy.
Anybody can play.
The note is only 20 percent.
The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
One day, in retrospect
the years of struggle will
strike you as the most beautiful.
For so many years, I thought you felt nothing.
I’ll take your anger over indifference any day.
~ Rebecca’s mom, to Rebecca, on Ted Lasso
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
Gene Rodenberry’s (the creator of Star Trek) vision of the 24th century:
You’re a good cook, Maggie.You look lovely in the candlelight.
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o'clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you've never been.
Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."
- Anthony Bourdain
The problem with society today is that no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.
~ read on the internet
If there is something I could do or something I could say that would make you be happy just being with me, I'd do it.
I'd do it in a nanosecond, but I ain't got no control over any of that.
If you really wanted it, you would make time for it.
~ Bret O.
Fitness isn't about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be.
I want it to be the way it was between us…
To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it –
Basically because you feel good when you are near or with them.
People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things,
But on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.