#lying

I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself: why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think? Well, tell me!' His brother was silent and Edward went on: 'If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you really thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told a man the truth to his face, it would mean I was taking him seriously. And to take something so unimportant seriously means to become less than serious oneself. I, you see, must lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become one of them myself. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#lies #lying #truth #virtue #imagination

If you're heading downtown from Centeral Park, my advice is to take the subway. Flying pigs are faster but way more dangerous ↗

— Rick Riordan

#flying-pigs #funny-and-random #subways #funny

How often do you find yourself saying, “In a minute”, “I’ll get to it” or “Tomorrow’s good enough” and every other possible excuse in the book? Compare it with how often you decide it’s got to be done, so let’s get on and do it! That should tell you just how serious your procrastinating problem really is. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#defer #delay #dilly-dallying #laziness #postpone

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#power #tease #bullying

The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Williams

#bullying #kindness #strength-of-character #bullying

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do? ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#bullying

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#depression #mean-people #suicide #bullying

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#tumbling-hair #bullying