The Blame Game

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you. - J. K. Rowling

It's called growing up.

Scandalous Superiority

Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. - Johnathan Haidt

And scandal has become an industry where if it doesn't exist, it's invented.

Gossips

Who gossips to you will gossip about you. - Turkish saying


It takes two gossips to gossip.

Pulling Up

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington


Putting down is the same as pushing down.

Spoiler

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain


Does fishing spoil a day by the water?

Good Morning

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start going 'Good morning' at total strangers. - Maya Angelou

..... Get real and stay that way; if you aren't, it shows and it ain't pretty.

Troubled

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within. - Eleanor Roosevelt

..... Don't let 'em get to ya.

Anger

Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin

..... Hate is the same way.

Hurt or Healing

What matters is this: you can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand. - Sharri Reynolds


You can dwell on the cause or the effect.

Suffering Overcome

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller


...and ideally empty of complaints about it.

Recognize Blessings

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. - Titus Livius

Spend more time looking for the good in things.

Keep Humanity Clean

You must not loose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi

Humanity, like the ocean, must continuously cleanse itself of the polluting drops.

Simple Minded

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Henri Poincare 

Both are a cop-out.

Gossip?

You will never keep people from talking. But you can take actions to influence the content of what they say. - Seth Godin


Good or bad.

Fired With Enthusiasm

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi


Or, how to build a winning team.


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Getting Rid of the Squeak

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold


Be careful how annoying your squeak is.


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Contagious Company

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. - Charles Caleb Colton


Does this explain the popularity of villainous heroes?


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Keeping Cool

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. - Frances Willard


Friction converts energy into heat.


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Devil's Critic

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics. - Seth Godin 


Does it then follow that the meek need critics, not supporters?


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Repressing Evil Taint All That Good

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.  - Calvin Coolidge 


Calling "repressing evil" as "good" is a poor substitute.


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