"Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."
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.
I'm a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said 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
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"
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.
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.
“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
“1 in a million chances happen 9 times out of 10”
— Terry Pratchett
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
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.
"Change and comfort rarely come together"
"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."
What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
-Paarthurnax
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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.”
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
Off the top of my head, I'm going to go with Hanlon's razor: "Don't attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity"
Although, it's somewhat complicated by the existence of willful or lazy ignorance.
I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know.
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
You practising stoicism?
Sort of.
More it's just the way I've pretty much always been. Before I was even really aware of it, I apparently figured out that I couldn't control the outside world but I could control how I reacted to it, so that was what I focused on. One could sort of say that I did it simply because it made sense to me, but even that makes it sound more conscious than it was. It's more that it just never occurred to me to do things any other way.
It was only much later that I discovered that there was a philosophy called "stoicism" that advocated that.
Better to piss in the sink than sink in the piss
Haha but really my favorite quote is
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Really helps me feel better about the fact that I'm a 28 year old man who exclusively watches anime
Life is a comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel.
Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority.
— Matt Lee, https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opinion-github-vs-gitlab
"“That’s not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives.” IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIVE AT ALL."
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
"The world is cruel but you don’t have to be"
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.
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.
Soulmates are not found. They're made.
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
If they gave Jerry Falwell's corpse an enema, they could bury him in a matchbox.
Christopher Hitchens
Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...
"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "
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