Words of Wisdom

[Survivorist]

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -Oscar Wilde

 

[JDot]

"The difficulty is not with coming up with new ideas, but with undoing the old ones" - fortune cookie

 

[JDot]

"Just like showing up for class, being here for life gives us the opportunity to learn and understand the lessons provided in each moment' - Dr. Irene Kraegel

 

[Victor Spoils]

My grandfather used say”

If you don’t value the penny-
You will never be worth a dime.

He lived in WW2 Germany
After the war they threw away nothing.
He found a bunch of bent discarded nails at a construction site.
He told me this when he was straightening bent nails in a vice to reuse.

 

[Victor Spoils]

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/539257

 

[Ash600]

The obstacle is the path

- Not every obstacle is there to be avoided, hoping it will disappear by meekly hiding behind the sofa. Some are there so as to be tackled headlong instead of sidestepping them. Walls sometimes exist so as to see who has the balls to kick them down. By doing so can improve one's courage, flexibility and resilience.

 

[KM76710]

 

[seabird]

"...Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offfers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things. "

- Mary Oliver

 

[JDot]

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce Lee

 

[seabird]

"I had been told that girls don’t do science. And fortunately, I ignored that."

Jennifer Doudna
--- Nobel Prize Winner

 

[KM76710]

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”. Frank Herbert.

 

[seabird]

"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
- Rollow May

"Trauma robs us of that freedom. "
- Gabor Maté

 

[DowntheRabbitHole]

 

[Ash600]

The only arsehole you need in life, is the one you take a dump out of.

 

[KM76710]

 

[JDot]

"Sometimes the easiest solution is the last thing on your mind" - Dashie

 

[Angie]

To procrastinate means I'd rather suffer

 

[KM76710]

 

[DowntheRabbitHole]

 

[LonelyHiker]

Being alone means there's no one left to abandon you...

- Me