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
Words to live by...
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
A koan
Banzan overhears a conversation between a butcher and a customer:
"Give me the best piece of meat you have," the customer said."Everything in my shop is the best". the butcher replied. "You cannot find here any piece of meat that is not the best."
At these words, Banzan became enlightened
Dracarys!
I'd rather be killed majestically by a dragon than nibbled to death by ducks.
~ Andy Ihnatko
Ouch!
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
~ Thomas Sowell
Looking for my Piglet...
"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh.
There was a pause.
"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet.
"No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't think I do."
"That's okay," said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.
"What are you doing?" asked Pooh.
"Nothing, really," said Piglet. "Only, I know what Difficult Days are like. I quite often don't feel like talking about it on my Difficult Days either.
"But goodness," continued Piglet, "Difficult Days are so much easier when you know you've got someone there for you. And I'll always be here for you, Pooh."
And as Pooh sat there, working through in his head his Difficult Day, while the solid, reliable Piglet sat next to him quietly, swinging his little legs...he thought that his best friend had never been more right."
~ A.A. Milne
No fun, indeed...
Charlie, there are a million things in this universe that you can have, and a million things you can't have.
It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are!
~ Captain Kirk, to Charlie, when Yoeman Rand spurned his advances, in Charlie X
Or so I've read...
There are people who write books.
And there are people who read books.
Then there are people who lead lives that others write about.
~ a saying I heard long ago...
Funny, not funny...
It's pretty funny that the world is ending and we all just have to keep going to our little jobs. LOL.
~ tweet by Kath Barbadoro, stand-up comedian
And when does this happen?
People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis', but it's not.
It's an unraveling - a time when you need a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed to live'.
~ Brene' Brown
Commence selective outrage in three, two, one...
Obesity kills 2.8 million per year.
Heart disease kills 17.9 million per year.
Diabetes kills 1.5 million per year.
If governments really cared about your health, they would have banned fast food, refined. sugars, and industrialized seed oils long ago.
But they didn't.
~ found on the internet (so you know it's true)
Interesting...
We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both.
Not at the same time.
~ Brene' Brown
I'm right there with you, Jia Ye!
Take hot foot baths.
Got to sleep and wake up early.
Protect your shoulders, hips, and knees.
Think good things.
Look at good things.
Speak good things.
~ Jia Ye, Taoist hermit
Sounds deep anyways...
The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.
~ Thucydides, the funeral speech for Pericles
I concur...
Santa Claus may have issues with Mrs. Claus, but people don't want to hear about it.
They just want to have Christmas.
~ Patricia to Jackie, in I Love That For You
How about a creek, or a ditch?
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~ Persian Poet Rumi
Indeed! But married is married...
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
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