Human Nature

"Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot." 

"I don't have a solution but I admire the problem."

"Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken."

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." 

"There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing."- Anonymous

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power - that is not easy." - Aristotle

"One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average." - Michael Bailey, psychologist, Northwestern

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." - P.T. Barnum

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'." - Harry Browne

"I will tell you one thing about abstinence: It works. I haven’t had booze for over 13 years, cigarettes for over 10. It’s hard to implement but easy to maintain. Moderation, on the other hand, is easy to implement but hard to maintain. Let me give you an example: We all know people who have quit smoking, but how many people do you know who have gone from two packs of cigarettes a day to half a pack -- and kept it there? Or from a pack a day to just two or three cigarettes a day? Nice in theory, but almost impossible in practice." - Peter V. Burroughs

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - Idiocy

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field." - Albert Einstein

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." - Indira Gandhi

"Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present." - William Lloyd Garrison, Abolitionist (1805-1879)

"When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it." - Jonah Goldberg

"People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors." - Gregoire

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton 

"If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say." - Jack Handey

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor

"Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament-- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome." - Robert A. Heinlein

"I'm gonna live forever, or die trying." - Joseph Heller, Catch 22

"If you will it, it is no dream" - Theodor Herzl

"If you can not answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail" - Abraham Maslow

"For every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." - H.L. Mencken

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." - H. L. Mencken

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

"You know in your heart that nothing's really wrong with you. However, your heart is just a muscle. You "know" things with your brain." - Onion Horoscope, Cancer, 1/24/01

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine

"Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed." - Fight Club, by Chuck Palahnuik

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato

"If you ignore the rules, people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so they don't apply to you." - Terry Pratchett

"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics." - Ayn Rand

"The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others." - Ayn Rand

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do." - Bertrand Russell

"Everybody wants to be a victim. And the paradox is that victim status accrues precisely to those who can acquire enough clout to make others afraid of them. Victimhood has become one of the fruits of power. Anyone can be an underdog; the trick is to be a registered, pedigreed underdog." - Joseph Belloc Sobran

"When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?" - Thomas Sowell

"Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead." - Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

"Not that it's devoid of interest now, but it is easier to introduce new complications than to resolve the old ones." - Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

"Should we throw another human wave of structural engineers at stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or should we just let the damn thing fall over and build a tower that doesn't suck?" - Neal Stephenson

"Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything." - Moe Szyslak (Moe on The Simpsons)

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

"Save time: Exact bloody revenge now, before the bastards have a chance to wrong you." - The Onion, Sagittarius Horoscope, 3/15/00

"Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you." - Sun Tsu

"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to." - Mark Twain

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut

"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me." - Oscar Wilde

40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist

If there’s one thing Friedrich Nietzsche did well, it’s obliterate feel-good beliefs people have about themselves. He has been criticized for being a misanthrope, a subvert, a cynic and a pessimist, but I think these assessments are off the mark. I believe he only wanted human beings to be more honest with themselves.

He did have a remarkable gift for aphorism — he once declared, “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” A hundred years after his death, Nietzsche retains his disturbing talent for turning a person’s worldview upside-down with one jarring remark. 

Even today his words remain controversial. They hit nerves. Most of his views are completely at odds with the status quo. Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the man himself. Many you’ll agree with. Others you will resist, but these are the ones to pay the most attention to — your beliefs are being challenged. It’s either an opportunity to grow, or to insist that you already know better. If any of them hit a nerve in you, ask yourself why.

1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

4. There are no facts, only interpretations.

5. Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.

6. No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

7. Without music, life would be a mistake.

8. Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

9. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

10. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

11. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

12. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

13. No victor believes in chance.

14. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

15. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

16. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

17. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

18. The future influences the present just as much as the past.

19. The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

20. I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

21. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, is what makes someone a friend.

22. God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

23. Success has always been a great liar.

24. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

25. What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

26. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

27. When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

28. When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

29. Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

30. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

31. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

32. Fear is the mother of morality.

33. A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

34. Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

35. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

36. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

37. The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart — not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

38. What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

39. Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

40. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Source: Raptitude

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't Quit!

Life is strange with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow-

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a fair and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup,

And he learned too late when night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turns inside out-

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be never when it seems afar,

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,-

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't Quit.

Author: Unknown

Sometimes I Feel…

Hey guys this is Umar with my new blog post about ‘Sometimes what I feel’. Sometimes I feel a little alone and just want to runaway. Sometimes I feel like I can never imagine what life can do with me. I feel like I am drowning in the depth of the oceans of faces and I hear only mocking smiles. Sometimes my plans often go unfulfilled but I still hope something positive will happen. Sometimes I feel like my both hands are shaking and I am breaking through the waves but no one there to save me not even myself. I feel like I am wasting my life to do what I want to do and I am still on it. Sometimes I feel that I believe people a lot but still they think I am pretending and making up. Sometimes goodbyes are not enough to take over the situations. Sometimes I never get what I deserve. Sometimes I feel like I am getting far away from everyone and feeling more comfortable in darkness. Sometimes I feel I am losing everything what I've got because I believe it does not belong to me. Sometimes I feel like a severe pain in the back of my head and none of the medicine will be the cure. Sometimes I feel so lost and feel like I am burning inside that even hurricanes and tsunamis cannot snuff out. Sometimes I feel like there is a gale wandering in my mind which executed all my good memories. Sometimes I feel like I am crumbling down and the memories wobble apart from my body and mind. I don’t know how to overcome these dark memories which try to swallow me and I cannot pretend that It will be. I also have colored dreams but those are being eradicated by unheard voices. All these years I feel like my time never came. Sometimes I feel like confidence is everything but I know I cannot even convince myself at all. Sometimes I feel like everyone is starring me I haven’t got a word to say. Sometimes it’s hard to find true relationships than to act upon. Sometimes things are not as they seem to be. Sometimes I am afraid of the day of reckoning. I learnt from my experience that you can judge a person by making some sort of relations with him/her and the very next time you will be more careful about what just happened with you in past but actually next time situation will be different, person will be different and obviously feelings will be different ,Indeed. 

Questions for LIFE

These questions have no right or wrong answers.

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer:

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Which is worse, failing or never trying?

If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?

When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?

What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?

If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?

Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?

If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?

To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?

Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?

You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?

If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?

Would you break the law to save a loved one?

Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?

What’s something you know you do differently than most people?

How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?

What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?  What’s holding you back?

Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?

If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?

Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?

Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?

Why are you, you?

Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?

Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?

What are you most grateful for?

Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?

Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

Has your greatest fear ever come true?

Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?

What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?

At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?

If not now, then when?

If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?

Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?

Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?

Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?

If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?

Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?

Do you feel like you've lived this day a hundred times before?

When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?

If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?

Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?

What is the difference between being alive and truly living?

When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?

If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?

What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?

When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?

What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?

In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?

Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

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