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Conventional Wisdom Thread
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(August 19, 2016 at 12:52 pm)robvalue Wrote: Appreciate what you have, rather than worrying about what you don't have.

Or, to quote a dead white guy, 
  • If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

[b]Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu  aka  Charles de Montesquieu


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Please excuse the ept-challenged quoting from wiki
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#12
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When Asda gives you lemons return them and say you actually ordered some oranges.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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#13
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Awesome people certainly recognize other awesome people.

Being a people-pleaser is the enemy of assertiveness.

Happiness comes both from within and from without. Without internal sources of happiness perpetual frustration and dissatisfaction is inevitable and without external sources of happiness perpetual boredom and emptiness is inevitable. Extracting both appreciation and pride from within one's self, identity and values and enjoyments and pleasures from outside one's self, identity and values -- from the external world -- is required to be at one's happiest.
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#14
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Lasting joy and happiness is not found in the things we accumulate or in immediate gratification, but in the things we hold appreciation for.
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#15
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All this philosophy is so cringy, utopian, idealistic and cute it hurts my mind.

Its still is a decent hobby.
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#16
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Because your posts are just dripping with meaning, PP.
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#17
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PP's posts might be profound if I could decipher what he's trying to say in half of them or their relevance to the current topics.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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downbeatplumb Wrote:[...]small and timid pussy[...]
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It's okay to own things so long as you don't let them own you.

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Wherever you go; there you are.
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