#truism

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Love is, just like isn’t isn’t is.


Jarod Kintz


#humor #love #truism #age

Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water.


Gretchen Rubin


#happiness #experience

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.


John Green


#characters #desire #messy #experience

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.


Carl Sandburg


#independence #people #time #truism #life

Follow the rules until you make them.


Luke Green


#skills #truisms #writing #life

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.


Honoré de Balzac


#pride #self-assuredness #truism #men

Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.


J.D. Salinger


#holden-caulfield #phonies #the-catcher-in-the-rye #movies

You can observe a lot just by watching.


Yogi Berra


#science #truism #science

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.


Martin Luther King, Jr.


#creative #darkness #decide #destructive #every

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.


Mercedes Lackey


#heroes #heroism #heroism