Category: Quotes

  • Growing Up

  • Inner Struggle

    A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

    George Bernard Shaw (via dropkicksoul)

  • International Criminals

    The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes… past warlords… empires… its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals… not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals

    Stefan Molyneux (via socraticapology)

    As always, context is critical. 😐

  • The Impossible Dream

    Impossible Dream

    To dream the impossible dream
    To fight the unbeatable foe
    To bear with unbearable sorrow
    And to run where
    the brave dare not go

    To right the unrightable wrong
    And to love pure and chaste from afar
    To try when your arms are too weary
    To reach the unreachable star

    This is my quest
    To follow that star
    No matter how hopeless
    No matter how far

    To fight for the right
    Without question or pause
    To be willing to march,
    march into hell
    For that heavenly cause

    And I know
    If I’ll only be true
    To this glorious quest
    That my heart
    Will lie peaceful and calm
    When I’m laid to my rest

    And the world will be
    better for this
    That one man, scorned
    and covered with scars,
    Still strove with his last
    ounce of courage
    To reach the unreachable,
    the unreachable,
    The unreachable star

    And I’ll always dream
    The impossible dream
    Yes, and I’ll reach
    The unreachable star

    Sung by Luther Vandross

    (For some strange reason, the lyrics of this song is echoing in the void between my ears this morning as I recover from a Red Bull induced hangover.

  • Einstein on life…

    leydaslessons:

    “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” ~ Albert Einstein

  • Think

    What luck for rulers that men do not think

    Adolf Hitler

  • Life Lessons From Forrest Gump

    Nothing amazing was ever achieved through conformance, and non-conformance is by its very nature a painful experience. Human nature, through its inherent survival instinct will avoid pain if left to follow its instinct. But we’re a step above animals, because we have superior intellect, reason and choice. If we cower, we reduce ourselves to animals. But if we persevere, we’ll become masters of our state, rather than victims. When we’re in this state of mastery-consciousness, we’re automatically administering the cure for so many spiritual illnesses that plague our society independent of race, religion, culture, social standing or material worth.

    Life Lessons From Forrest Gump – CJ

  • The gentle souls that touch my life in my later years inevitably bear the brunt of the lessons learnt at the hands of the despicable souls in my earlier years.

    CJ