Trouble is, well-intentioned people often make things worse, but ill-intentioned people rarely make things better.
Somewhere amidst life's endless array of distractions lies its purpose, disguised as one of them.
To correct someone's grammar and be accused of semantics is like correcting someone's arithmetic and being accused of mathematics.
Happy people are more often happy in spite of something than because of something.
We are all in the course of a lifetime many different people -- strangers to us now, shadows in our past, but their battle scars remain ours to carry, their sins ours to atone, their promises ours to keep. How do you reconcile this person you are with these people you once were?
Who be these strangers from my past
These ghosts who haunt my day,
Whose battle scars I carry still,
Whose debts I must repay,
Whose trinkets fill my attic space,
Whose idle thoughts my brain,
Whose sins reside upon my soul,
Forever to remain.
How came this mortal coil to be
My final residence,
This house forever haunted by
Its previous occupants?
We think of Doomsday as when everything will end, but what if Doomsday is when everything began?
We speculate on there being a parallel universe, but what if there's a perpendicular universe?
Science and Religion have this in common -- that they see everything as true or false. But, see, what if it's multiple choice?
"There are days when you feel that if you walked down the street in a clown costume, no one would recall seeing anyone in a clown costume."
"There is no actual law that says you can't get locked into a daily routine that makes you happy."
"Whatever you're trying to prove, it's good occasionally to spend a day not trying to prove it."
"Never let anything ruin your day that is not on the list of things you will let ruin your day."
~~ from Reflections
We learn from our mistakes, which explains the education level of those who claim they have never made one.
Life is an exercise in the pursuit of happiness, the actual experience of happiness confined to brief pauses in the pursuit..
If you are to succeed in life, you must ignore the advice of those who dearest desire is to keep you from being disappointed.
No one ever entered their teen years with a well-thought-out exit strategy.
The most basic requirement of a job interviewer is to distinguish the skills needed to do the job from the skills needed to pass the job interview.
It is a mistake to subscribe to reality unless you also subscribe to the annual updates.
While I like a politician who claims to know what I deserve, I would hope he/she is better informed on other subjects.
The obstacle to having a better-informed electorate is that the people elected to office rarely see it as a problem.
I have heard many descriptions of hell that sound like hell, but I have never heard a description of heaven that sounds like heaven. Eternal hellfire is easy to imagine. It is harder to imagine an eternity of anything being heavenly.
All I know about wisdom is that it lies somewhere beyond ignorance and short of certainty.
I have never envied another's material possessions, although I have envied the happiness they get from them.
There are days when I am unaccountably happy, and, in fact, that is usually the reason for it.
There are reasons for happiness and reasons for unhappiness, although unhappiness seems to be the more ingenious in coming up with them.
I compare the pursuit of happiness to a day of fishing -- it helps if you stock the pond.
