Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more! Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Well, hello there. I made a bit of an unceremonious decision last week to skip an article. I’ll be skipping next week’s …
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thanks for coming to take a look at this …
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. Anton Chekhov Mandated vaccinations. Tax brackets. Censorship of ideas. Definitions of words. Spending policy. These are the things we argue about nowadays. Now, despite the title, I’m not going to argue these things are pointless. That’s obviously untrue, they …
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience I was in my Sophomore year on my way to Geometry when I first heard the news. I wish I could remember who stopped to …
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. Dwight D. Eisenhower This article was one of the first I wanted to make back when I started this whole thing, but it never felt like the right time. Every week there was something more relevant or too far disjointed for a good …
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. Jordan Belfort I was recently in Las Vegas to celebrate a good friend’s wedding. It was a fun, busy time and really good to catch up with the guy in person …
They constantly try to escape // From the darkness outside and within // By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. // But the man that is will shadow // The man that pretends to be. T.S. Eliot, The Rock Mankind is full of idealists. We look around at …
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will …
Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can’t. If a thing is free to be good it’s also free to be bad. (…) Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it …
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles, Antigone At this point, you’ve likely noticed a trend in these posts. Yes, they’re all about means of self-improvement and traps we fall into, but they have all been …
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