thought for the day thread.

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh
 
something I thought that might be quite worthwhile to think about...

Imagine what the world could become if everyone could be a little more patient...

In the most minute of situations.
 
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I've been reading The Lucifer Effect by Phillip Zimbardo. The conclusions drawn from the Stanford Prison experiment and Milgram experiment points towards the darker side of human nature that lurks in everyone. They have demonstrated that situational forces can easily override personal disposition. A good man can turn evil under authoritarian settings.
 
Wisdom

"You cannot do nothing when you wanna be something." -floud

I tell this to myself alot, especially when it comes to guitar..:p
 
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
 
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"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your lovelovelovelovelovelovelove khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

Haha, Fight Club. Nice...
 
Today, on the way home, i pondered the effects people have as they enter and exit our lives. They stamp their footprints on our brains, our memory, in our hearts and sometimes on our souls. If all goes well, they will enrich us and bring out our best qualities, like Michelangelo releasing the sculptures from their marble confines. If it goes badly, they will diminish us, eroding our spirits, wasting our resourses, draining our energies, leaving us dry and unfulfilled. Physically, people can probably live without each other. Mentally and emotionally, it's a different matter.

What do we want from life? The stock answers are: peace of mind, health, love, fulfillment, harmony, good fortune and mind blowing sex. Well, the last one only probably refers to me. But, what we really need to enjoy nonetheless, a tranquil existence; self-sufficiency, which is our life defined by our actions, and NOT those of others. At the risk of overcoming all Self-Help Manuel, i personally think that we can't reply on other people for our happiness, it is not their responsibility.

It may be a soapy song lyric, but learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all and to me, the hardest to achieve. I hate myself so much that at times i wished i had the guts to kill myself. We look in the mirror and fail to see the big picture. We see that we are too short, too ugly, too heavy, bad hair, bad skin, big bum, small tits and bemoan these physical facts without looking within to see what really counts. Then the criticism would really begin, for who wants to admit to being guilty to any of the Deadly Sins, let alone all seven?

Now now softies, what say you?
 
mine:

- to be content with what I have
- to appreciate and cherish the people in my life
- to fulfill my dreams and potential
- to leave the world a better place than I found it
- to die happy
 
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