“Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
“Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details.
The details that, no matter how many times you thought them through, brought you no closer to understanding. They just tied up your mind and prevented you from really letting in the things you love.
Your demon that is standing before the beautiful floodgate and is keeping you in a dehydrated nothingness”.
― Brianna Wiest
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ”
– Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities
True happiness – Seneca
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing.”
– Seneca
You make time – Unknown
“You make time for the things and people you care about.”
– Unknown
Temptation – Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation… You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde
Man is affected not by events – Epictetus
“Man is affected not by events but by the view he takes of them.”
– Epictetus
“A measure of the emptiness of people’s lives exists: the degree to which they need to stick their claws into other people lives.”
– Unknown
Mental pain – C.S. Lewis
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
– C.S. Lewis
How we spend our days – Unknown
“How we spend our days is of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Unknown
Be kind – Unknown
“In a world where you can be anything, be kind”
– Unknown
Cage – Nipsey Hussle
“If you look at the people in your circle and you don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle…you have a cage.”
– Unknown (Attributed to Nipsey Hussle)
“I’ve loved quite a few people, and by that I mean I really feel happy in their company. That’s pretty much it – the joy of someone’s company. That’s what I call love.”
– Joni Mitchell
Want what you’re working for – Unknown
“You have to want what you’re working for.”
– Unknown
Privilege – Franklin Leonard
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
― Franklin Leonard