aphorisms

#2 There is truth in everything but very little in any one thing.

#3 Let the battles come as they may and smile with your sword in hand.

#4 Perhaps what everyone wants is respect, but everything has a price.

#5 Home is a place where comfort is not your enemy.

#6 Expectations and hopes for capabilities are as rare as the expectations and capabilities themselves.

#7 Common Sense does come naturally to human beings. Of course, we try to beat most of it out of ourselves.

#8 When perspectives change, importance changes.

#9 Circumstances, as good or bad as they may seem at the moment will and should change.

#10 Take what is your life and ask yourself a simple question: Why?

#11 We all have to find our sanity from somewhere.

#12 Failure is really only lack of action.

#13 To make a decision is to invite change.

#14 “Beyond Good and Evil” -F. Nietche

#15 To live as a human being is to think for yourself

#16 Our truth is only dependent upon how much of it we perceive.

#17 “Experience alone, can decide the truth” –A. Einstein

#18 Change is the only consistent.

#19 You must be your own teacher.

#20 Live with knowledge not in knowledge.

#21 Do not live by boundaries; do not lose boundaries; but by all means change them.

#22 Learn to act and act to learn.

#23 Prioritize your circumstances or they will you.

#24 The end of a path is the start of a journey.

#25 To be completely open is to be completely closed.

#26 Why?

#27 Being normal is simply a state of being familiar.

#28 Balance extremism with conservative intemperance.

#29 The Scent of Self

#30 The Scent of Self denied

#31 Sometimes why we are doing gets lost in the weeds of what we are doing.

#32 In the sense that sanity is what we all search for, I wonder if Mankind is lost?

#33 It may take a lifetime, but really we have nothing else to do.

#34 Life is often times in the quiet places that we work so hard to fill.

#35 Without “You” there is no “Them”.

#36 Nothing is important. Everything is important.

#37 “Fill your life up with action not activity.” –Bruce Lee

#38 Look for answers to find questions; ask questions to find answers.

#39 To know ones self is to know the meaning of life.

#40 Awareness gives freedom, fear takes freedom away; awareness of fear is freedom from fear.

#41 Infinity exists only when we do not know that exists.

#42 Beauty has a lasting effect on the human spirit and so does ugliness.

#43 Right and wrong are wrapped in the blanket of perspective as everything else.

#44 A closed mind is useless to the beholder and a hindrance to those around it.

#45 To claim absolute truth is to lose truth absolutely.

#46 To be blinded by ignorance is sorrow; to accept ignorance is a shame.

#47 A lifetime of blindness can easily be called truth, but a lifetime of truth cannot be lived while blinded.

#48 Simply because one chooses to live in a society ought not guarantee that one has the right to live in that society.

#49 Consideration entails empathy even when understanding fails.

#50 If we are to live together in peace then each of us must accept the limitations that peace requires.

#51 What are individual rights? First, we have the right to pursue our potential. But, we also have the responsibility to accept the consequences of that freedom.

#51 As long as we keep separating ourselves the longer we will have to keep separating ourselves.

#52 Ignorance is a challenge, but stupidity is a choice.

#53 The color of my skin has nothing to do with the content of my thoughts.

#54 To educate ourselves is a personal responsibility that leads to a responsible society.

#55 There are correct and incorrect answers. Unfortunately we do not know which answers we get until we ask the question.

#56 It is not my responsibility to be patient and understanding if it is not your responsibility to try to understand with patience.

#57 Blind faith, like stupidity is the acceptance of ignorance. Blind faith simply considers its stupidity as a universal fact.

#58 Excuses are those things we use when we do not want to use the real thing.

#59 Music is a great human accomplishment, but there are not many humans who are accomplished at making great music.

#60 Cynicism is a dying art because to be a cynic, one must also be intelligent.

#61 When we use such things as children and pets to make up for an empty life, we still have an empty life; only now we also have a child or a pet.

#62 Empathy is free. Acting empathetically is not.

#63 So much time and effort is spent on reacting to symptoms rather than acting on the causes of those symptoms.

#64 There are two types of people: those that are part of the solution and those that are not. Ironically, it is the problems faced that define who it is that is part of the solution, and the solutions that define who it is that is part of the problem.

#65 Those who consider art as entertainment do not know what either is.

#66 Nothing is easy. It is something that is hard.

#67 When someone says, "You wouldn't understand." they usually don't understand.

#68 We are a product of nature, but that does not mean that we are always limited by nature.
#69 Natural law is not good or bad; it is pragmatic. it roots out those who do not abide by it.

#70 Changing how we say something does not change the something that we are talking about.

#71 No amount of faith will change the truth, and no amount of truth will change the minds of the faithful.

#72 The point is: potential.

#73 We sell ourselves short when we change our desires to fit our limitations.

#74 It is OK to be lazy. It's not OK to justify laziness.

#75 Who we are is a choice that we make every minute of everyday.

#76 In order to be truly happy, sometimes we must do things that do not make us happy.

#77 When we limit ourselves: we learn. But when we set our limitations we limit what we can learn.

#78 Perfection is death: the lack of and the inability to change.

#79 Life is that chance that we all have to live in and free from ignorance.

#80 The mouth is not the source of understanding, intelligence or anything else. But, it is the mirror of that source.

#81 Nothing is perfect; nothing is infinite; nothing is certain; nothing is all of these things because nothing is perfect, infinite, and certain.

#82 Hatred is fuzzy and unclear. Animosity is hatred with glasses.