Happiness First

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Margaret Young


Happiness is lack of pretense.

Honored Values

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. - Michael Josephson


Such as Life, Liberty and Property.

Lack of Interest

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. - Raul Armesto


You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

Fashion

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau


Following the fashion of your generation into adulthood is a sign of stability rather than lacking perception.

Skeptical Proof

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence skepticism is the first step towards truth. It must be applied generally because it is the touchstone. - Denis Diderot


All how have accepted some conspiracy theory or another should read and understand this.

Playing Your Hand

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharial Nehru


Thinking is how you play your hand well.

Essential Foods

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. - Katherine Whitehorn


Unless they hate everything but pizza.

Lamb Power!

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin


Think of this when the under-educated refer to our system as a democracy.

Life's Wounds

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare


Patience doesn't mean inaction.

Difficulty or Opportunity

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill


Choose your attitude.