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I used to think of myself as a complete pacifist, but these words haven't left my mind since I heard them:
You think you're better than everyone else, but there you stand: the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs and your rigid pacifism crumbles into bloodstained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.
Of course this only applies to defense, never to offense (especially "preemptive defense"), but I can't really argue against it.
Housing can't be both affordable and a good investment.
Variation of this: Poor people rent, that's how they stay poor.
Choose your rut carefully.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Hurt people hurt people.
"Know your worth."
I've struggled with self-worth my whole life and I'm finally taking a stand for myself both in my professional and personal life. It feels great tbh.
The expression is usually meant to limit speech and ambition.
I don't take it that way at all.
I've never heard it stated in that manner either, only as a way to make it clear that one should stand up for themselves.
"Know your PLACE" absolutely has the negative connotation though.
We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end. And the thing was to get to that end.
Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead.
But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played
-- Alan Watts
This kind of question always immediately makes me think of something a friend said years ago when I was still a teen. We were talking about school and education and shit and it was on the subject of asking questions when you don't fully understand something and he said "rather ask a stupid question and be a fool for five minutes, then keep your mouth shut and be a fool for the rest of your life." I think it was something that his mother had told him, in their language, so I'm constructing that statement from memory but it was something close to that.
It's the opposite of... Rather say nothing and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.
Which one a person believes says volumes about how shitty a person they might be.
Does it?
It does not
Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind
"It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard
The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.
You can't help people that don't want help.
Goes for people who are going through mental/physical health problems or substance abuse issues. If they don't want help you have to accept that and be there for them when they do.
I've always heard this as "You can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink"
Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism—and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in faith and in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong—and lucky—he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death—however mutable man may be able to make them—our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
--Stanley Kubrick, responding to the question "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?" in a 1968 Playboy interview.
I believe in this and it's been tested by research. He who fucks nuns will later join the church.
This is my favourite lyric in any song ever.
It's from Death or Glory by The Clash, for those who don't know.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
He may or may not have known it, but he was paraphrasing a fundamental rule of the Baha'i Faith.
“It can be two things”
"Assume that everyone else just wants to be happy too"
Unfortunately, some people don't know how to be happy or take pleasure in the pain of others.
The compliment to the quote above should be “misery loves company.”
