Comparison is the thief of happiness.
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Fear shrinks the brain.
Is another good one.
Fear is the mind-killer
I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
Funny. “Fear keeps you alive” is one I use fairly often.
lol also true! I think of mine more in the context of when I see things from the media. If they seem to be instilling fear (omg immigrants are coming, they’re scary), it’s because they don’t want you to think critically.
Yeah, the challenge is really to figure out if a fear is useful, or an unhelpful remnant from earlier on in your own life, or in evolution.
Wholeheartedly agree
If they gave Jerry Falwell’s corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”
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Oi oi oi. Me gotta hurt in here. Me smell a ting is near. Gonna bosh, and gonna nosh, and then the ting will disappear.
— Uthden Troll
Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Anarchist”
That’s a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.
It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.
When working on an office, it’s great and all that you have “the power of accurate observation” but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
No, “those” people are
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Though there are questions as to its veracity, “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”. As an artist, this is the reason I’ll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
I’m a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Don’t do what you think you have to do… only do what you absolutely must do
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably
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“To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula LeGuin has definitely seen some shit
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
lol not politics I mean some shit. Pretty sure she survived a nuclear holocaust in a parallel dimension, at least
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”
