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Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. ↗
#living-in-the-present #the-future #the-past-cannot-be-altered #inspirational
As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people. ↗
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them. ↗
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. ↗
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ↗
#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today. ↗
Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go. ↗
#choose-your-battles-wisely #choosing-peace #choosing-serenity #fighting-battles #inspirational-life
