Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Wisdom comes by facing the wind; fools let it carry them." - Daniel Boone
"If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining." - Marcus Aurelius
"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure, but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity." - Epicurus
"Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation." - Eckhart Tolle
Morgan Housel has a fairly long post where he examines a number (17 to be exact) ways people think. This stood out for me:
When you are keenly aware of your own struggles but blind to others,' it's easy to assume you're missing some skill or secret that others have. Sometimes that's true. More often you're just blind to how much everyone is making it up as they go, one challenge at a time.
This reminded me of William Goldman's description of Hollywood, "No one knows anything." Which is basically true. However, we don't have to start from scratch. There's literally centuries of accumulated knowledge and wisdom to help guide your way if you only make an effort.
This approach seems especially true of Housel - and please don't take this as a criticism. Most of the thoughts and quotes in the above link I've seem elsewhere in Housel's writings. He'll take some wisdom gathered elsewhere and added his own understanding or interpretation. And repeats it in different forms - posts, books, articles, etc..
This is often something you see other respected writers do. Victor Davis Hanson does it all the time.
As a reader this is often helpful. Seeing it repeated helps the message to sink in. That's another way people think.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Professional athletes are not paid to play, they're paid to WIN." - Bill Russell
"Wisdom is foreseeing the consequences." - Shane Parrish
"Sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." - Herman Melville
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - Thomas Brackett Reed
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Tell me what you know. Tell me what you don't know. Only then can you tell me what you think. Always keep these three things separate." - Colin Powell
"What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work." - Ayn Rand
"I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire." - Winston Churchill
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Cities would never give their fire departments quotas of how many fires they need to put out - that would just give incentive to firemen to set fires of their own in order to meet the quota. Yet those same cities have no compunction to giving the police quotas. It makes no sense... The Only Real Way to Acquire Wisdom... I've said it before but given recent circumstances - if DuckDuckGo came out with a politically neutral video platform (I suggested the name DuckDuckShow) with the same privacy settings as their browser to complete against YouTube I think it would be an immediate hit... Flashback - Democratic "dirty-tricks" trial as 4 take plea deal. This has been a cancer on the body politic for years...Inaugural protocol reminder - at the after inaugural reception whoever catches the President's flower bouquet becomes the Ambassador to Sweden...
