think*Mindful

“When life gives you lemons, stop thinking of having lemons as a fucking achievement. Dude, life literally threw those goddamn lemons at you, so don’t be a prick about it. You are not a member of some elite lemon club, just a regular fucker with a few lemons. And no, it’s not like all lemonless people are out to taek ur lemernz. Also, believe it or not, you are not entitled to all the lemons in the world just coz you popped out a few units. Lastly, if you decide to eat that lemon and shit gets sour, do not blame the juice! Well, what do I care. Just leave me out of your lemon business.”
– Meowy

The difference between expectations and reality is disappointment (and sometime annoyance/anger).

So when you are feeling disappointed, take a step back and ask the following questions:

1. Were my expectations too high (am I the problem … which is typical the root cause)
2. Were the situations not what I expect (was my original view/assumptions wrong)?
3. Did the other party try?
4. Did the other party even KNOW the expectations?
5. Did the other party have the same standards?
6. Could I have done something so the other party could’ve met the expectation (aka communicate)

– Unknown

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you run into assholes all day maybe you are the asshole”

– Unknown

“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”

– Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

– Seneca

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

– Albert Einstein

“You keep a lot to yourself because it’s difficult to find people who understand.”

– Unknown

“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”

– Seneca

“A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”

– African proverb

“People are not against you, they are for themselves.”

– Unknown

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

– Charles Bukowski

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

– Marcus Aurelius

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

– Mark Twain

“Sometimes scepticism is to mask discomfort with something, it’s your coping mechanism for shielding yourself from experiences that you don’t want to have because you’re simply afraid of them.

– Jayson Greene