Behind The Mask

Sometimes we don't win another person's trust because we can't tell the lie it would take.

Life is not fair, a frequent observation of those who would be clearly to blame otherwise.

Never put yourself in the position where you consider someone telling the truth a traitor.

You are not a true hypocrite if you merely preach one thing and do another; you must also, simultaneously, deplore hypocrisy. 

Not all marriages prove to be true love, but all marriages serve to identify it.

It is easier to engrave it on a monument than to live it.

This, That And Happiness!

It's a curious thing, the School of Life, its graduates never known to have a class reunion or respond to an alumni appeal..

 One advantage evil has over good is its vastly greater ability to cite precedent.

We learn from our mistakes, especially the mistake of not learning from history.

The problem with self-improvement is that it's usually not completed early enough in life to affect evolution. 

Ah, happiness, lying unnoticed beneath the busyness of the moment, revealing itself only to the quiet of our recollection.

From Our Random Observer

In 1492, Columbus discovered America, which, up to then, had been minding its own business.

If there's a lesson in history, it is that you don't ever want to be discovered by a more advanced civilization. 

One thing you never get from love is a credible explanation of what it sees in you.

The chief cause of unemployment is getting the job done.  If you want steady work, merely show progress.  

 We get pretty much the happiness we arrange to have, the happiness mainly in the arrangements.

It is a difficult trade, comfort for happiness, and usually done over the loud objections of the body.

Well, Yes, Now That You Mention It

 When science tells us that nothing prior to The Big Bang can be known, it effectively says, "There be God." 

What makes accepting reality so hard is that our perception of reality keeps changing, while our delusions stick to their story.

A human lifetime is that brief instant in all of eternity when we have no alibi.

We find in our imagination the means to overcome most obstacles, a good thing because that's where we find most obstacles.

To believe anything on insufficient evidence is to believe anything, because there is never a shortfall of insufficient evidence.

From My Observation Post

As much as we crave admiration and respect, it's hard to resist someone who just thinks we're funny.

What is often lacking in people of good intention is a compelling ulterior motive.

There are days when it would be hard to remain an optimist were it not for your army of secret admirers.

The words, "I'm not perfect" are usually accompanied by a willingness to hear arguments to the contrary.

There is a tendency to confuse inherited worth with inherited worthiness.

Nothing makes you question the importance of good parenting like the success of your neighbor's kids.

Love Is A Many-Splintered Thing

  

 

 "The cause of many a broken relationship is someone who craved respect and got love."

"Most sinners know who their forgivers will be, and that, more than anything else, is what makes it a sin."

Nothing is more difficult, after you say, "I love you," than explaining what you didn't mean by it.

Thoughts Of A Clearly Older Fellow

There are worse moments in old age than recalling some long-ago embarrassment and realizing that you have outlived all the witnesses to it.

 

You can look upon life as dust to dust or you can look upon life as seed to seed.

Sign over the gates of Hell, "DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE A BAD PERSON."

We all know them -- people who, if they end up in the fires of Hell, will complain about their neighbors screaming too loudly.

Parenting, too, is an art form, although one in which you don't get to hide your early, amateur works in the attic.

 

No one really wants to be someone else.  We want to be ourselves, only with someone else's brains and talents and physical reflection in a mirror. 

We crave understanding, believing that with understanding will come approval.  But not everyone who disapproves of us misunderstands us.