Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
But I've tried my best!
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
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