Stupid people are more practical and action oriented than clever people, because they've no nuance, creativity or abstraction to distract them - no rabbit holes to get lost in. For stupid people, nuanced thinking is not possible, but for clever people, being practical is an art.

Not all stories are meant to be shared freely. Some origin stories contain too much power, and are too intimate to simply be revealed in all their grand and lucid detail. It'd serve as easily weaponised knowledge in the wrong hands - it is a treasure, and so must stay secret!

A man who is not a paradox has not grown, and a man without secrets has not lived.

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Fear is inferiority speaking as authority

The kiss sculpture in Vienna Central cemetery.

Peace is found in three places - in the centre of a storm, in deep meditation, and in rituals.

Why should you hold authority if you don't incur a greater burden? The strong should endure what the weak cannot, right? Which is why they get to lead in the first place - because *they are best suited to the job* and that's what ensures enough order within the chaos to have

Daily reminder that you don’t need to be appreciated to do good things - the desire to do them for their own sake and see their existence by your hand as its own reward is sufficient enough.

Enzo Maresca has to leave Chelsea immediately. And when he does, all attention has to go to Stewart, Winstanley and Egbhali who forced him on us.

The desire to be understood runs deeper than the desire to be correct.

Wage stagnation + rent inflation = modern day slavery. Doing jobs you hate for shit money that barely keeps you alive. That ain't life man.

If you feel jealousy, you've got work to do. Your instinct is to direct your frustration at the person you hold responsible for your jealousy, but you're wiser to channel that frustration into improving yourself rather than destroying another.

Women falsify their degree of innocence in much the way men feign their level of toughness.

They like hitting people on the head because they never use theirs

Nobody likes to be judged, but everybody judges as a matter of due course. Such counterintuitive inconsistency is one of humanity's quirks.

Impulsivity is weakness in succumbing and restraint is strength in self-disciplined intentionality - but when restraint is perceived as inaction and thus mistaken for passivity, it is misperceived as weakness when it is anything but. Sometimes nothing is the correct something.

If you're afraid to lose her, you already did.

Driving is one of the most dangerous things we do daily. Your life is literally in the hands of other drivers you can’t control. It’s only God that protects us on these roads.

POLITICS is the ONLY profession where you can LIE, CHEAT, and STEAL, and still be respected." Mark Twain