“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
- Dalinar Kholin
I am typically this when someone accuses me of being a hypocrite. Either way, I certainly do tolerate it though, in fact I have a system for it.
Whoa I’ve never thought this thought. Thank you for sharing.
Life before death, Radiant.
I’m a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Based pooh
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
That’s pretty funny
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”
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”
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?
No, “those” people are
That’s a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
I doubt.
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.
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
- H.G. Wells
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
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
I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
‘Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad’
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.”
“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
”A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.” Alan Watts
I think it’s just a reminder of the pointlessness of overthinking. I find it poignant because I spend a lot of time lost in rumination, myself
Alan Watts is so fun. He used words like that monk lady in the marvel movies that slaps people out of their bodies.
He’s masterful with words. So masterful he makes it look easy.
So many teachers like “beyond this point words fail”, and they’ve got a good point, but Watts goes “let me give it a shot” and then conveys things in words that can take years to grasp through the brute force method of direct perception.
People shit on words, and with very good reason, but they are the chutes and ladders that make enlightenment in a single lifetime possible if one’s lucky enough to have a teacher like Watts.
Yes!
“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” Alan Watts
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Or, if you like it more pithy: “The difference between theory and practice is larger in practice than it is in theory.”
Change your perspective… and the reality changes!
That’s what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven’t really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
“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
“Change and comfort rarely come together”
- Unattributed quote from a manager I work with
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.”
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
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
