Wisdom
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- Quotes Warren Buffett
- Quotes Shigeo Shingo
- "A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned." Naval Ravikant
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- "Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died."
⏤ C.S. Lewis, Miracles
- An atheist was seated next to a dusty old cowboy on an airplane and he turned to him and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The old cowboy, who had just started to read his book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.
“Okay,” he said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
The atheist, visibly surprised by the old cowboy's intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
To which the cowboy replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don’t know shit?”
- Poet and writer Joseph Brodsky on how to deal with the critics, detractors, and negative influences in your life:
"Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those — in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists; most likely they are counting on your being talkative and relating your experience to others.
By himself, no individual is worth an exercise in injustice (or for that matter, in justice). The ratio of one-to-one doesn't justify the effort: it's the echo that counts. That's the main principle of any oppressor, whether state-sponsored or autodidact. Therefore, steal, or still, the echo, so that you don't allow an event, however unpleasant or momentous, to claim any more time than it took for it to occur.
What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react. Therefore, rush through or past them as though they were yellow and not red lights. Don't linger on them mentally or verbally; don't pride yourself on forgiving or forgetting them — worse come to worse, do the forgetting first. This way you'll spare your brain cells a lot of useless agitation; this way, perhaps, you may even save those pigheads from themselves, since the prospect of being forgotten is shorter than that of being forgiven. So flip the channel: you can't put this network out of circulation, but at least you can reduce its ratings."
- "I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it." Vincent Van Gogh
- “Someday, I would like to go home. The exact location of this place, I don't know, but someday I would like to go. There would be a pleasing feeling of familiarity and a sense of welcome in everything I saw. People would greet me warmly. They would remind me of the length of my absence and the thousands of miles I had traveled in those restless years, but mostly, they would tell me that I had been missed, and that things were better now I had returned. Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year. At night, I would walk the streets but not feel lonely, for these are the streets of my home town. These are the streets that I had thought about while far away, and now I was back, and all was as it should be. The trees and the falling leaves would welcome me. I would look up at the moon, and remember seeing it in countries all over the world as I had restlessly journeyed for decades, never remembering it looking the same as when viewed from my hometown.”
~Henry Rollins
- "And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." -- Haruki Murakami
- "That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it." -- Joan Didion
- “Only people desperate for freedom from all of the ways that sin has wrapped itself around their lives are willing to own and confess their brokenness to other people. And only people who are that desperate are likely to receive the gift of entire sanctification.” -- Kevin Watson
- "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
⏤ Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book
- "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, air-less—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." --C. S. Lewis -- The Four Loves
- “His name is revealed to be what it how it ought to be. It's revealed in all of its glory and majesty and goodness, the more we embody his character.”
From The Art of Holiness: Matt O'Reilly, Aug 26, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-holiness/id1513040080?i=1000666699291
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- “This is surely the main problem of the twentieth century: is it permissible merely to carry out orders and commit one's conscience to someone else's keeping?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Wed Sep 10, 2025
- 10 Morning Declarations
1. I am in complete control of my response to everything that happends to me.
2. I am responsible for my own life and happiness.
3. My past does not define my future.
4. 1 am constently growing and improving.
5. I attrack opportunities by being prepared and staying alert.
6. My education and personal development are my highest priorities.
7. I choose to focus on solutions not problems.
8. I am building something meaningful with my life.
9. 1 am grateful for what I have while working for what I want.
10. Today is an opportunity to become the person I am meant to be.