Meditation for June 16th, 2016
Quotes
Here are some famous quotes that inspire humanity.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
Ignoring the fact that Gandhi was a terrible person and a pedophile, his quote is quite motivational. Stop blaming the world for not being what it should be and be what the world should be. You can type on your little idiot Internet box all day, but unless you show the world by example nothing will change. Get off the couch and free us with your ideal self.
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Open your mind, asshole. Once you try things and understand other people’s ideas and morals, you won’t be able to go back to the stupid idiot you were before.
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw
Basically this means instead of sitting there all the time rolling your eyes and expounding on your lazy ass philosophy, get up and do shit even if it turns out to be wrong. Experience is the spice of life and lazy grumps who are too scared to do anything are the turds in a lawn that needs to be mowed.
“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” – Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was a self-granulating son of a bitch, but he was a quotable one. This is just saying that you don’t deserve happiness unless you work hard to help others and make the world a better place. Happiness is just being useful to others and not to go party all the time with the booze and pills.
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” -Henry Ford
I mean Henry Ford thought Hitler was quite the man, so it is a surprise that he’s so quotable, but here he is telling us that if we say we suck, we’ll suck, and if we say we rule, we rule. Don’t worry about being called a cocky bastard if it’ll mean being awesome.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
Most of you will give up the first time you fail so this isn’t quite that powerful of a quote, but if you keep trying and trying you’ll finally succeed. Most of you probably won’t read this because you gave up on my meditations in February when you realized that reading anything is really difficult. Maybe I’ll make a movie based on my blogs. Who would play me? Jason Schwartzman? Miles Telller? Brenton Thwaites? Anthony Mackie? Brad Pitt? Fred Savage?
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
You’ll make lots of mistakes if you are actually trying to be interesting, but you will fuck up plenty. Don’t make excuses when you apologize, just say you made a mistake and try not to do it again. People who make excuse aren’t actually sorry, they just want you to know that they are a weak little victim and it is harder on them than you.
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” – Oscar Wilde
The old are self-absorbed gullible cretins that feel that the whole world owes them and they’ll believe anything. The middle aged are just suspicious of getting old and not being young anymore. What does Fr;fr mean? The young just think they know everything, but sadly they know nothing. There are no such things as prodigies, masters or wise old people anymore.
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” – Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t be a one trick pony. Try and do a lot. No one used to be just one thing. Hell, Leonardo Da Vinci was an inventor, painter, scientist, sculptor, engineer, architect and the keeper of the grail! Now people dress up in costumes that represent one genre of culture and it is forbidden to cross into any other cultures. Fucking get out of your hole.
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
If you want to be a better person in this world you are going to have to suffer. If you don’t ever suffer because you have the means not to, you are never going to know real life. Don’t be afraid of things not being perfect all the time and know that shit sucks before it gets better.