~ George Orwell, 1984
This guy was a prescient genius
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
My favorite joke of all time
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.
She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What's the matter, dear”, she whispers as she steps into the room, "Why are you down here at this time of night?"
The husband looks up from his coffee, "It's the 20th Anniversary of the day we met".
She can't believe he has remembered and starts to tear up.
The husband continues, "Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating, I was 18 and you were only 16," he says solemnly.
Once again, the wife is touched to tears.
"Yes, I do”, she replies.
The husband pauses...The words were not coming easily.
"Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?"
"Yes, I remember”, said the wife, lowering herself into the chair beside him.
The husband continued. "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years’”?
"I remember that, too”, she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said “Today, I would have been a free man…"
Tom is the G.O.A.T.
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.
~ Tom Brady
Indeed
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
~ Charles Bukowski
Yes
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.
~ Charles Bukowski
People are indeed strange
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.
~ Charles Bukowski
My experience generally confirms this
Sayre's Law
People often argue the most about things that matter the least.
Rasor to ponder
Hanlon's Razor
Don't attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
If your little brother colors on your homework, it's probably not because he hates you.
It's more likely he didn't know how important your homework was.
He was speaking in the context of relationships, but works in life generally
Do not punish behavior that you wish to see repeated.
~ Jordan Peterson
She knew
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~ Judy Garland
Good point
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
~ Bertrand Russell
Good Advice from the Oracle of Omaha
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you.
Frue power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint.
If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
~ Warren Buffett
If you know, you know…
Sometimes all I need is the air I breathe…
…and to love you.
~ seen on a piece of wall art on a shop in Pella, Iowa.
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