“I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken.”
– Unknown
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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
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Good people – Donald J. Trump
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.”
– Donald J. Trump
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7-Eleven – Donald J. Trump
“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down”
– Donald J. Trump
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Important – Bertrand Russell
“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Beautiful women – Zan Perrion
“There’s a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women, on the other hand, are rare and a real mystery. Hotness speaks to our impulses. Beauty speaks to our imagination.”
– Zan Perrion
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Getting started – Mark Twain
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain
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Moods – Larry Drain
“Moods are processes — not events. They have a coming and a going. It means knowing that because something “feels so” doesn’t make it so.”
– Larry Drain
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How you want to feel – Unknown
“Don’t think about what you want to do, think about how you want to feel.”
– Unknown
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A single thought – Henry David Thoreau
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Shout out – Unknown
‘Shout out to all of the people wondering what the opposite of “in” is.’
– Unknown
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Cult of ignorance – Issac Asimov
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
– Issac Asimov
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Shadow boxing – Muhammad Ali
“I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.”
– Muhammad Ali
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Don’t believe – Unknown
“Don’t believe everything you think”
– Unknown
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Carried – Megan Devine
‘Some things in life cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.’
– Megan Devine
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Price – Warren Buffett
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
– Warren Buffett