nobody would be the same if you can afford to be different.

You won't have or find perfect, but nearly perfect is a rare opportunity you have grab by the balls.

a task in life is to love and be loved.

How species resolve dispute is everything in survival. Perhaps a contributing factor homosapiens outpaced other bi-pedal apes was them stumbling upon barter/money where dispute is softened.

every story has been told, repeated, lived and relived over and over again. nothing new is under the sun but just the recombination of atoms in different ways.

Warren Buffett: "I would focus on the things that have been good in your life — rather than the bad things that happen. Bad things do happen, but it can often be a wonderful life."

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire​."

​"O, flare thy wild nostrils, and welcome the day! Onward! And upward! Come what will, come what may."

sometimes i wonder how much pain is forgotten, unspoken, erased.

Little butterfly without wings, how do you fly? You're holdin' on so tight that you don't even try And if I had a dream (if I had) Love would be sunshine for me You are my air to breathe You're just like honey to a bee Better believe I'll be back It's hard to say goodbye Better believe I'll be back It hurts you every time When you appeared to me You let me know what love could be You gave me confidence You showed me light, you stayed with me It's you I'm dreamin' of (you I'm dreamin' of) Night and day when I contemplate You are my everything I'm standin' with you You are my heart Better believe I'll be back It's hard to say goodbye Better believe I'll be back It hurts you every time Better believe I'll be back It's hard to say goodbye I feel it all around, there's a fire in my spirit Needin' you around 'cause I'm down tonight Feelin' like a clown 'cause I'm cryin' every minute We'll get by tonight, we'll get by tonight Better believe I'll be back (whoa, whoa) It's hard to say goodbye Better believe I'll be back (whoa, whoa) It hurts me every time

"You cannot persuade anyone by paint-balling them with your opinion. You must paint a picture of your point using the colors of the listener's mind."

some people just love the bitching rather than the doing.

the shortcut is discipline and honesty.

you can pass down money, you will have a much harder time passing down discipline and habits, and the money follows the latter.