'What's all this then.'- Any British Bobby

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“Rain can be both destructive and rebuilding. I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.” - unknown

Always, always, always park your car next to the cart return at the supermarket.  You'll be thanking me.

(December 13, 2022 at 9:39 pm)Objectivist Wrote: Always, always, always park your car next to the cart return at the supermarket.  You'll be thanking me.

That’s actually so true, especially in the rain.

(December 13, 2022 at 9:50 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:

(December 13, 2022 at 9:39 pm)Objectivist Wrote: Always, always, always park your car next to the cart return at the supermarket.  You'll be thanking me.

That’s actually so true, especially in the rain.

Yes, and especially after a long hard day when you're tired and just want to get home and relax.

''That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of that first link on one memorable day.'' - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

One I trot out when people offer me unsolicited advice:

'I don't remember asking you a GODdamn thing!' - Jules Winnfield

Boru

(January 7, 2016 at 7:11 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I started a thread on TTA with the same concept, but not sure how many here post over there. So, here is the same thread for AF. The one on TTA has been going well, it's interesting to see what ideas, and quotes move people.

I'll start...

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ~Plato

''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein

On the serious side, though, one of the more influential things I've ever heard comes from Jocko Willink.  He says that we all have two voices in our heads.  One voice says to us it's OK, you don't have to get up early today, you don't have to work hard, you can take a break.  The other voice asks you "what could you be if you worked as hard as you can,  what could you be if you implement some real discipline in your life?  I say you turn up the volume on that voice, I say max it out."  This has had a profound impact on my life.  My Grandmother always used to say "if it's going to be, it's up to me".  

He's right.  Until we've done everything we can possibly do to succeed, we don't have a right to blame anyone else for our failures, which means we never have the right to blame others for our failures. 

Here's another very powerful idea from WillinK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8

Inside you, there are two wolves. I'd get that checked out if I were you. - Anon

“’Offense’ is the last straw the faith-heads clutch when they have run out of reasonable arguments.” (Richard Dawkins)