You may not be owned, but still may have been bought;
You may have slow speech, and yet not have slow thought
Because you are nice doesn’t mean that you’re frail;
Because you’re alone doesn’t mean that you’ll fail
You may know you’ll lose, but yet still choose to fight;
You might be an expert and still not be right
You might go no further, yet not have gone far;
The person you were’s
Not the person
You are
Never excuse one evil by pointing to another evil
When recounting your grievances, remember: people lose patience with reruns
You aren’t a failure just because someone said you were —
you aren’t a success by that measure, either
Never try to explain some small random thing
by substituting an even larger, more random thing
Respect people for the human value they provide; i.e.,
show a lot more respect to farmers
Better yet, respect people, period
Fight the human tendency to believe
that if you don’t know what someone does
they must not do anything
Imagination breeds expectation, which yields disappointment;
imagination also breeds empathy, which allows us to help each other through disappointment —
so, do that
Social reinforcement doesn’t make something right or wrong,
it just makes it feel that way
People are starving for any bits of respect or affection
even though we can all give them away for free
Never spend another person’s money, and never think
you really know their grief
Despair is the same sort of mistake as overconfidence;
in both cases, we assume we know the future perfectly
If you know and admit to yourself that you have it in you to be cruel,
you have some chance of stopping it
Never overdo a good thing;
remember that time when you were thirteen and ate fifteen doughnuts, because
that didn’t turn out well
They told him, “just the strong survive.”
But he does not believe that, much —
A type of mere tautology
Because strength is defined as such
For he’s known weakness, indolence,
The need for frequent healing —
But he survives ’cause he’s refused
To ever give up
Feeling
