We are all only visitors

Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.”
John Wayne

What gives us advantage

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances,”
Thomas Jefferson.

Hidden forces

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Take off your gloves!!!!

“A cat in gloves catches no mice”
Benjamin Franklin

Limited vision

“Nearly everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

Paleopower

More to the point, the government gets it wrong. Can you think of much good advice from this government that is dominated by politics and pushed into areas of incompetence? A deadbeat institution that can’t pay its own bills.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/14/fight-for-your-right-to-go-paleo

Follow your bliss

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Joseph Campbell

Interesting quotes

‎”… the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.”
G. I. Gurdjieff, 1922 (In Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous)

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” – Aristotle

‎”I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
Frank Costello, as played by Jack Nicholson in The Departed (2006)

‎”Parva leves capiunt animos” (Small things fascinate little minds) –
Ovidius, Ars amatoria

‎”Freedom is not just a dream. It’s there on the other side of those fences we build all by ourselves.” Dr. Ethan Powell, played by Anthony Hopkins in Instinct (1999)

‎”Little souls wish you to be unhappy. It aggravates them to have you joyous, efficient and free. They like to feel that fate is disciplining you. It gives their egos wings if yours are clipped. You can ruin your life in an hour by listening to their puerile opinions.”—David Seabury

“Hope is the raw material of losers.” – Fernando Flores

“I am glad you make a fresh beginning daily; there is no better means of attaining… than by continually beginning again.” – St. Francis de Sales

‎”We possess such immense resources of power that pessimism is a laughable absurdity.” – Colin Wilson, in “Poetry and Mysticism”

‎”The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.” – Carlos Castaneda

‎”The successful warrior is the average person with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

‎”Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.” — Muhammad Ali

Ordinary men vs Warriors

”The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.”
Carlos Castaneda