Choosing

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Neil Peart

Decisions

"To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life" - Arbie M. Dale

Listen

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble" - Frank Tyge


I'd rather listen more than talk anyway. You learn more about people once you really listen. and observe.

Personal Development

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
- Jon Postel
Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
- Les Brown
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
- Bill Gates
Never offer what you'd hate someone for accepting.
- Tara Ploughman
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you dont win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
- Richard M. Nixon

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- E. E. Cummings

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
- A. Bronson Alcott

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
- Jesse Lee Bennett

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco

Proverbs

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
All are not cooks that walk with long knives.
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.
Always yield to temptation, because it may not pass your way again.


Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

 A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Freedom

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X

The only real prison is fear and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
- Aung San Suu Kyi

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose Kennedy

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
- Gerry Spence

Irish Sayings

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

Doubt

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts. It is a sword that kills"

Religion

"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money"


....it's all about your perception

Loneliness

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë 

 “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

“
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
― Janet Fitch

 “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi 

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― Sylvia Plath