Category: Thought for the week

If you experience self-criticism, guilt, anguish, self-frustration… Rejoice! These emotions are the result of a deep sense of love, compassion, empathy and other positive attributes. We experience negative emotions when we feel we have let ourselves down and not lived up to our own standards. A psycho/sociopath does not experience these emotions. As Leonard Cohen said: “There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in”.

Signs of the Times
All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now.

Kahlil Gibran
I’ve discovered a new term:- Screaming fuckwittery. I understand this applies to situations such as: getting a hot coffee at McDonalds, putting it between your legs when you drive off, suing McDonalds for getting burnt, and winning; suing Blackmores because you overdosed on Vitamin B6; believing Palestinian propaganda, especially groups like ‘Gays for Gaza’. REALLY???
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Old Chinese proverb
No matter what the others try and sell you. It is the destination, not the journey [that matters].

László Tóth – The Brutalist
There are three types of people: the idiot, the fool and the wise person. The idiot does the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome. (According to Einstein this is the definition of insanity). The fool learns from their mistakes. The wise person learns from other people’s mistakes.
If I have six hours to cut down a tree, I will spend five sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln
It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee
What’s important is not what you’ve got but how you use it.

E.J.M. Harrould
The individual stops thinking about himself and instead becomes himself.

Elisabeth Haich