Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don’t blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.
If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around ‘negative people’ is the mark of real positivity.
Good... if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.
It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.
Most people want so desperately to be an individual yet are so easily shaped by the media.
I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.
With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.
Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.
The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.
It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.
People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.
If you assume that the new – and simply because it’s new – is always to be better than the old, chances are you’ve never known anything valuable.
Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.
Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.
All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.
Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.