#wisdom

"She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?"

"Jesus Christ Hiaku Jesus Christget a job already.You're killing your mother!"

"FBI vs. CIA When a person works for the FBI for 20 years and retires,he gets a watch.When a person works for the CIA for 20 years and retires,he gets watched.I know this not because I'm in law enforcement or with the NSA ~I know this because I have HBO."

"Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone."

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."

"Self-Sufficiency [10w] When God closes a door,buy a Sawzall from Home Depot."

"In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars."

"Mythbusters [10w] Snipers will assure you safety in numbers is a myth."

"There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception."

"At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling period wisdom sets in; finally, the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"The most complicated skill is to be simple."

"Valentine's Day 1 [10w] Valentine's Day affirms the promise that love can be sustained."

"Rat Trap Haiku 'Hmm, 12 by 13,4 by 9. Oy! You call thisrat trap an apartment?"

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"New Year Resolutions I [10w] Change my voice;unclog my ears;open my heart."

"Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please."

"Paranoid Realist Perspective [10w] "I've conquered all my enemies except for the real ones."

"Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit."

"If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down."