You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.
Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.
You’re only responsible for being honest, not for someone else’s reaction to your honesty.
I’m an open book. But some of the pages are stuck together.
These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports…they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them…that’s not facing your fear, that’s embracing your stupidity.
Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it’s covered by so much dirt that it’s a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.
I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.
Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic.
I want to make the choice that gives an accurate impression of who I am; and who I am is someone who wants to be ethical, evolved, yet not at all an oil pan for the machinations of the morally corrupt.
I’ve never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It’s only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the salisburies?
Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?
The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It’s really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
Good communication is less about saying what you mean, and more about defining what you say.
Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can’t get off, because of their arthritis.