“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – Andre Gide
Everyday
Are you moving close to your duty
Or moving away?
Knowing
What you value and what you’re doing
Is growing
Moored
To firmament and remaining steady
For your reward
Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.
Emilia Clarke
Whether as messiah, or as refugee, I can always use what resources I have to try and live a happy life.
Luo Ji, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
9th May 2024 – Submitted to Word of the Day Challenge – Garbage
26th Sep 2024 – Submitted to Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Supersize
We need each other to become ourselves.
Abraham Kaplan
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful for our crazy passionfruit plants that are providing me with so much fruit to enjoy. Then there’s the crazy pumpkin that also may actually give us food that doesn’t get eaten by insects this year.
What makes this leg the one to be admired?
The smoother the skin the more similarly inspired
From a foot to a thigh
I’m always wondering why
For perfection, there are always two required
When struggling for time and inspiration, a limerick rescues.
What’s uncomfortable early becomes comfortable later. What’s comfortable early becomes uncomfortable later.
unknown, seen on a Quora post about Principle of Life
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to meet the nice immigration officer yesterday. He was very helpful and made the task as smooth as possible.
Another selfie makes us unhealthy
Pic after pic makes us sick
Mental disaster, depressing faster
A selfie smile, gone out of style
The revolutionary thinker must go beyond thought. He knows that almost all his best ideas come to him when thinking has stopped.
Alan Watts
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to be able to eat Amy’s home-cooked food again. Better than any shop.
What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I’m trying to be better than I am.
Allie Brosh
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful to have had a few days away in Bangkok and to be back at home again. I like to travel but I love my home more.
The most, the best, the biggest, the loudest
A notion of bigots most often the proudest
A penis envy countered with rockets
Sold to the bidder with deepest pockets
Remember your elders said ‘sharing is caring’
Where has that gone, as people despairing
To beat the Joneses in a pointless race
For a population long fallen from grace
Better yourself, don’t worry who’s on top
It’s a race to the bottom unable to stop
Share the resources with our kindred brothers
We are one in this life with others
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs
Even without kerosene around
The house is on fire
Sparking cinders across the ground
The street is on fire
There’s nothing to do in this town
Because it’s all on fire
Now the world is burning down
Because it’s all on fire
The only real monsters might be the type of liar where there’s simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.
Hal, The Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
And then I find a book that I really love, and I talk about it for a while so I won’t seem like I hate everything. In other words, I hate everything!
Matthilda Bertstein Sycamore
Another winning goal, another scoring shot
A sharing of the soul, a stirring of the pot
Climbing the ranks, lightning to the rod
Living life with thanks, stepping up to God
The title was taken from a commentator’s proclamation during last weekend’s Sydney vs. Fremantle AFL game as Buddy Franklin scored an important goal after the halftime siren.
Why on earth do you need thanks or recognition for having done the right thing? It’s your job.
Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic
Gratitude Journal
I am so happy and grateful that I was able to safely get on and off the roof to put down some waterproof tape. Let’s see if it works.
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