Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
Asshole Proximity Disorder
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.
I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.
To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.
The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.
Deep connection is the antidote to madness.
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.
Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
The problem with the world is not that there is evil. The problem with the world is that there is evil that people think is good.
It is the height of human happiness to have somebody to love. Our agony is that we have all the light and the paint but no canvas to put the art of our hearts on.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
