“It’s not your fault, but it is your problem.”

I honestly love and repeat this line way too much

Just because you weren’t the cause doesn’t mean it isn’t something you need to worry about/fix. I learned this one from my high school English teacher when a student was late and tried to get out of it by blaming traffic lol. The traffic was not their fault, but it ended up being their problem.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.

Almost every horrific thing that humans engage in stems from fear.

In my language it goes : “Alone you go faster, together you go further”.

What you do when you don’t have to, makes you who you are.

Everything in moderation.

Work smarter, not harder.

Yay Disney cartoons!

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Unfortunately, too many people have been trained to reject ideas or thoughts without first thinking them through. Many simply react to whatever word, expression, or concept triggers them without giving the rest a second thought. For example a brilliant idea can be presented online, but if one word is out of place, the usage of that word will debated instead of the idea.

If you make yourself irreplaceable you can’t get promoted.
Everyone always has a plan until they get punched in the face.

Making fun of the weak (poor, minorities, etc) is easy because they can’t fight back, that’s why the best comedy is the one that upsets the powerful.

Enjoy this thought poison that’s been with me for a long time:

Whenever you are killing time, time is also killing you

I don’t think it’s really profound but ‘perception is reality’. How a person perceives something is what they think is true and real, even if it isn’t.

This has influenced my entire idea of spending money:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

From “The Good Place”: If soulmates do exist, they’re not found. They’re made.

I believe Seth MacFarlane said something similar in “The Orville”.

A great reminder from two great shows.

“Everyone has what they deserve”