Fools will welcome your affection.
Most will tolerate your existence.
Few will question your truth.
The wise will accept your contradictions.
Be true to yourself, or be true to no one.
If you are untrue to even one, you are untrue to at least two — the other and yourself.
Knowing truth is knowing what it means to be alone.
Reality is not to scale.
Understanding is partial.
Perception is skewed.
Experience is biased.
Let everything without words say everything that words cannot say.
The fool fear incompletion and so fail even commencement.
The fool cling for life to the noose.
A diamond’s beauty is but the quality of light reflected, is but the quality of its facets.
A fledgling must risk falling if it is ever to realize flight.
To blame technology for any limitation is but an excuse.
Persistence transcends the impossible, the will transcends all.
May your will be good will.
The fool’s truth is not truth.
Trust takes time.
Trajectory with misdirection, is a truth twisted.
The fool share their trash, hide their treasures.
Exclusion will betray you in time; inclusion is loyal, now and forever, to you and to all.
Priorities are more than hopeful words, they are actions, our past actions. In the history of our beings, can we view our priorities.
If there exist the privileged and the underdogs, then also exist the underprivileged and the dogs.
《the real fight》
It is not enough that the underdog fights for the underdog.
Who is not afflicted, who is not oppressed, who is not persecuted -is tasked to support the underdog by assisting their fight for equality by opposing inequality.
For whosoever does not apply their ability, in essence, so gives up their ability. Whosoever has a right, but does nothing to extend and fight for all to have this right, so upholds a wrong.
The privileged condone by overlooking, condemn by standing by. The war of injustice is fueled by disregard, and the fight against injustice begins only when the privileged stand up for -and fight with- the underdog.
So, do not fight for your cause alone. Do not voice only that which concerns you. Do fight the wars that persist, large and small, for one and for all.
Because we are all the privileged, if not in one way, than in another. And we are all the underdog, if not today, then someday.
A friend is not one who shoulders your burden, but rather accompanies you on your journey.
The fool trust no one. The wise trust everyone.
Prison orange looks good on anyone.
《grounded by flight》
When all the birds have been leashed
like an inverted mobile in our hands,
will we pause to see our blindness
that it is ours, whose hands are tied.
Love accepts you for all that you are (in spite of all that you are not) and challenges you to be all that you can be (in spite of all that you could be).
Apologies cannot be demanded, only accepted.
One need not beware to be aware.
The fool beware, the wise are aware.
To love freely is not enough; one must love truly.
People eat M&Ms for the chocolate, not for the candy coating.
‘Tis better to sing off-tune than to not sing at all.
Fear is a poison.
Be cautious, but never calloused.
Hold in your heart what is dear, let go of the rest.
Peace belongs to no one, if it belongs not to all.
Freedom belongs to no one, if it belongs not to all.
No matter the color of skin, all hearts are red through.
The desert dweller prays for rain, but is prepared not for the storm.
The fool waits for the rains to sow his seeds.
The fool tames a beast he cannot feed.
Fantasy is the reality of the fool.
To judge another’s rationale is simply to impose one’s own motive upon another’s actions.
Climax not without the crescendo; lo, the fool is clueless, the wise is cognizant of.
Life, ’tis a puzzle.
Cast a worm, catch a fish.
[Other times, cast a worm, drown a worm.]
The fool act without understanding.
The lay do not act, understanding only of consequence.
The dilettante do not act, understanding not of impact.
The wise act with understanding of impact.
Consequence impels the fool; impact propels the wise.
Hold experience dearly, opinions loosely.
Project that which is beneficial to others;
Retain that which is worthy of possession;
Relinquish all else.
The wise balance output with input, teaching with learning, giving with receiving, apology with forgiveness.
Prudence in opinion, abundance in perception.
Share candid opinions as you would fresh onions -sparingly and with consideration.
From the valley, espy the peak.
Cash not backed by gold is but pretty paper.
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