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If you don't make the decision, the decision makes you.

?I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.?

― Johannes Kepler

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
--Oscar Wilde

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ~Rumi

"Damn, the seventh graders are hot this year!" -some freshman boy who rides my bus

"Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality."
Jonathan Haidt

That which has not killed me has committed a tactical error.

Nope, I didn't say that.

the Buddha

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.” ~ David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

"Reality ... What a concept!" -- Robin Williams (1951-2014); Actor, Comedian, Philosopher

"When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in the darkness the frail blue shape of it looked like the pitch of some last venture at the edge of the world. Something all but unaccountable. And so it was."
-Cormac McCarthy: The Road

The road goes ever on
-JRR Tolkien

I know who I am. After all these years, there is a victory in that.
-Rust Cohle

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!"
— From the story "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.