Phrases/Quotes of Wisdom Thread

"Close only counts in horseshoe games and fireball spells."
-Rashemeni proverb

"You may just as well compete with yourself, because if you don't someone else will."


Same early IBM boss.

But even at your worst day
You were never bad as this
You've gone far as you can go
Without dying

Come down off your high horse and let me in

It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through
me - I am only a channel - I can imagine in many instances where
I would become sinister to you. For instance, if life had led
you to take up an artificial attitude, then you wouldn't be able
to stand me, because I am a natural being. By my very presence
I crystallize; I am a ferment. The unconscious of people who live
in an artificial manner senses me as a danger.
Everything about me irritates them, my way of speaking, my
way of laughing. They sense nature.

C.G. Jung

"If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

Here stands a man
at the bottom of a hole he's made
still sweating from the rush
his body tense
his hands, they shake
oh this, this is a mad boy
a sad boy.