Things worth pondering.

A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That’s it. The end.

Greek proverb · After Life

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey

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Bleed for This (2016)

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Charles Bukowski

In truth we are responsible to all for all. It’s only that humankind doesn’t know it. If we knew it, the world would be paradise at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Savannah Brown

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Charlie Chaplin

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After Life

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason.

Ravi Zacharias

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Naval Ravikant

Everything worth having requires sacrifice.

Lex Fridman

One person can change the world. That person can be you.

Lex Fridman

I need nothing from you, but I want everything in the world for you — and I’m here to help.

Unknown

Don’t tell me the sky is the limit while there are footprints on the moon.

Unknown

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ET, the Hip Hop Preacher

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Naval Ravikant

The wound is the place light enters you.

Unknown

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as allowed.

H. G. Wells

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

“Are you like a crazy person?” — Evey  “I am quite sure they will say so.” — V

V for Vendetta (2005)

All that matters, and all that ever matters, is right now — the mindset and decisions we make about how to spend this present moment.

Unknown

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Jordan B. Peterson

A true thing, poorly expressed, is a lie.

Stephen Fry

The World is the Story.

Like Stories of Old

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Naval Ravikant

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Ren

Play long term games with long term people.

Naval Ravikant

The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Bertrand Russell

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Dylan Thomas

If I quit now, I will soon be back where I started. And when I started, I was desperately wishing to be where I am.

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Far Out

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.

Unknown

Water created man to carry itself uphill.

Unknown

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon.

Krafft Ehricke

Reach high, for stars lie hidden within you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Rabindranath Tagore

Aim for good and pray for happiness.

Jordan B. Peterson

I could write my magnum opus, or I could simply go to bed.

Savannah Brown

Education is not the filling of buckets but the lighting of flames.

Unknown

I’m taking a break from my mental health to focus on my work.

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