Thoughts

We all yearn for justice. But justice can only exist between equals. And the trouble with equality is that everyone wants to be equal with those above them, and no one with those below them.

We are born with a debt to our ancestors and we repay that debt by becoming ancestors ourselves.

If you have little to see, you see more in little.

All saints have a past, all sinners have a future.

The reason we feel inferior with others is that we compare out behind the scenes with their highlight reel. And reason we feel superior to others is we compare our intentions with their actions. In reality we all are way more alike than we imagine.

I am not young enough to know everything

My biggest failure of life would be knowing I never tried

The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel

When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Be where your feet are.

We don’t need willpower, we need won’t power.

What do you need in order to make a small fortune on Wall Street? A large fortune.

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets.

When you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

All of man’s problems arise because he cannot sit in a room by himself for 30 minutes.

a good Billionaire is someone who stops being a Billionaire

Do not sell your dreams for money.

any worthwhile endeavor—it becomes simple. Not easy, but simple. You decide what you want and just do the next thing. And if you don’t know what the next thing is, the next thing is to figure out the next thing.

Twain famously observed: “I have known many sorrows, most of which never happened.”

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions, but they hold him

20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids.

Youth is wasted on the young/ Misery is wasted on the miserable

Finite players play within the boundary, infinite players play with the boundaries.

I (like many others) felt a wrongness in the world. Life, I knew, was supposed to be more joyful than this, more real, more meaningful. We were not supposed to hate Mondays and live for the weekends and holidays. We were not supposed to have to raise our hands to be allowed to pee.
Charles Eisenstien

However, the two things must be mingled and varied, solitude and joining a crowd: the one will make us long for people and the other for ourselves, and each will be a remedy for the other; solitude will cure our distaste for a crowd, and a crowd will cure our boredom with solitude.
Seneca

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
-John Lennon

World will ask you who you are and if you don’t have an answer they will tell you.

Have you seen? Have you heard? What’s your take on? Can you believe? OMG that tweet. Read that story yet? Seen that video? Finish the second season yet? So much FOMO. We’d rather celebrate JOMO — the Joy of Missing Out. Life’s better when you’re missing the stuff that doesn’t matter anyway.

Plans are guesses. The longer-term the plan, the worse the guess. Replace years with weeks. 3 year plan? Make it a 3 week plan. 10 year plan? 10 week plan. Plan more often, not less often. The nearer-term your plans, the more accurate they’ll be.

Every desire beyond the basic need is a desire to be.

There are two types of people: those who finding themselves holding a minority position think “What is wrong with me?” and those who ask “What is wrong with **all of you?” IMS The program

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

Try to accept that happiness isn’t a constant state, nor does it come for free. It is a chemical reward for hard work, and to get more of it, one has to do more hard work. This applies to careers, relationships, friendships, and especially, Factorio.

We think happiness will come after we have acquired, built, experienced x. But if you have tried being human you will know that is not possible.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through firest , some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

“He who has a ‘why’ to live can bear almost any ‘how’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness/Love can’t be pursued, it must ensue. - You can’t urge someone to laugh you have give them a reason to laugh.

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.
— Terry Pratchett”

You see a lot of people saying things like “If I had Bezos money, then I’d fix and ” and that’s exactly why you’ll never have Bezos money. You don’t get to that position and accrue that much wealth by being empathetic or having a soul.

“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.” — Robin Williams

“People have a tendency to equate God and religion when they’re actually completely separate! It’s precisely because there’s no God that we need the religion! We need a moral framework to keep the society in check.” The program IMS

Just because you don’t see the help in the kitchen, doesn’t mean the cake bakes itself.

Violently shake up a castle and you won’t end up with no king; all you’ll get is a different king. Unjust circumstances cannot yield a just outcome.

People are no longer human beings, they are human doings

We must make the goal conform to individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal -Hunter Thompson

Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi