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I think many people do depending on the weather, noise volume in head, how many stupid people you have to deal with on that day haha well unless you have multiple personality disorder then that’s a whole different conversation

 

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” - J. P. Getty

 

I am beginning to wonder if perhaps I do have a multiple personality disorder, lol!

 

Great formula, Jim!

 

A year ago,
you did not know today.
You did not know
how you’d make it here.
But you made it here.
By grace, you made it here.

 

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be”

Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

 

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely”

Roald Dahl, The Twits

 

That's ok, Em, we like all three of you!!...

 

Why thank-you Jim, from all of us.

 

Thank-you for the links to The Twits and My Uncle Oswald, @Agrajag364. Both books look very interesting. I am always looking for something new to read.

 

Dahl was of course a famous children's author and the Twits is one of the children's books. His short stories for adults are less well read but very good. My uncle Oswald is a short story from one of the collections.

 

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

~ Kristin Armstrong

" Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian members! "

 

“He’s not Jesus - he’s just a fella.”

(from ‘Whistle Down the Wind.’)

 

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

- Joseph Addison

 

The truth is this,
every monster
you have met
or ever will meet,
was once a human being
with a soul
the was as soft
and light
as silk.

Someone stole
that silk from their soul
and turned them
into this.

So when you see
a monster next,
always remember this.
Do not fear
the thing before you.
Fear the thing that created it, instead.

 

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

― James Baldwin

Back at it again, huh @emmalee

 

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

 

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

 

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Winston Churchill

 

"Epstein didn't kill himself"
- Everyone

 

“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain? War. All our philosophies, religions, arts, techniques and trades lead to nothing but this. The finest flowers of civilization. The purest constructions of thought. The most generous and altruistic passions of the heart. The most heroic gestures of man. War. Now and thousand years ago. Tomorrow and a hundred thousand years ago. No, it's not a question of your country, my German or French friend, or yours, whether you're black or white or Papuan or a Borneo monkey. It's a question of your life. If you want to live, kill. Kill so that you can be free, or eat, or shit. The shameful thing is to kill in masses, at a predetermined hour on a predetermined day, in honour of certain principles, under cover of a flag, with old men nodding approval, to kill in a disinterested or passive way. Stand alone against them all, young man, kill, kill, you are unique, you're the only man alive, kill until the others cut you short with the guillotine or the cord or the rope, with or without ceremony, in the name of the Community or King.
What a laugh.”
― Blaise Cendrars

 

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart ~

 

"If you watch the movie Jaws backward, it's about a shark who vomits up so many people that they have to open a beach" -- an astute redditor.

 

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do."

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own."

– Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was an amazing human being.

 

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Robert Frost
I am frequently reminded of this when I scare myself with the recognition of how tinnitus has wiped out so much and created such a desert place in my consciousness.

 

"Never trust a doctor"
- Me (and probably many others)

 

My doctor is the absolute best, all to gain. I only wish he could be your doctor.

 

I was told that my now ex-doctor was great, too. I put too much trust in his expertise. I shouldn't have. But it's not just him, it's others in the medical field I have encountered too. But we all need doctors at one point or another, so it is good that you have found that you are happy with.

I still say: Never trust a doctor.

 

“the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” - FDR