Five Thought Provoking Quotes and why I abide by them

There are a few quotes that really resonate with me. Some are from others, but most are from myself. Little cognitive cookies I use every once in a while to put things in perspective.

"Anyone can give you feeling, only a few can give you reality"- me

This one resonates with me because there are many things in this world that give you fleeting emotions. Of happiness, excitement, pleasure, sadness, all sorts of emotions. sometimes something or someone comes along that you have never felt before and the feeling can catch you off guard. This is great,but sometimes one can be deceived in finding short term emotional satisfaction and sacrifice too much. This is a reminder to myself to always search for what really brings me consistent happiness and the people who contribute to it.

"One mans' death is a tradgedy, a million is a statistic" -Joseph Stalin

This is a rather cynical quote because it tugs at our dark nature as humans to . it is past our capacity to fathom the concept of a million other lives as independent and complex as our own. We are susceptible to see statistics in tragedy, whether it be deaths, poverty, rape, etc and our brain doesn't appreciate the full magnitude of the event. Meanwhile sometimes on persons death can be so exacerbated compared to that because we draw parallels to our own lives, our own family, our own experiences, as a spotlight is shown upon a persons passing. I remind myself of this whenever trying to wrap my head around concepts involving a large population.

If you don't look forward to anything then you can't be let down. If you can't be let down then you're cheating life -me

I'm a not a person who gets extremely excited about a lot of things. I'm not a person that gets extremely built up in anticipation, sometimes because I don't want to get disappointed. I sometimes have to remind myself that's necessary. I should care about and look forward to certain things or people, although everything, but without disappointment life just isn't as sweet.

* Amazing what you can do when you don’t view time as an obstacle*-me

Time isn't the enemy. The frustration with time comes from our exceptional skill at squandering it.

Judgment from others is all that withholds impulses.-me

Take a moment to think about how much of your life and daily living and actions hinder on that. I think about that whenever others judgment pauses a action of mine. Doesn't mean It always changes what I do, but certainly does a good amount.

These are some of my favorites. Maybe there are some you live by?

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