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“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men.
The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
-Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - 2008)

We could have lost our egos
but we lost each other instead.
- j.b.

“Um die Einsamkeit ists eine schöne Sache wenn man mit sich selbst in Frieden lebt, und was bestimmtes zu thun hat.”
—Goethe

“It is a beautiful thing to be lonely when one lives in peace with oneself and has something definite to do.”
—Goethe

This is what appeared from my translation project today. Every so often, something like this appears which propels me forward.

people go
but how
they left
always stays

You come home,
make some tea,
sit down in your armchair,
and all around there's silence.
Everyone decides for themselves
whether that's loneliness
or freedom.

Chopping a
sentence to
bits does not
make
it a poem.

Seduce my mind and you can have my body.
Find my soul and I'm yours forever.
- Anonymous

@shallow-blue said
Chopping a
sentence to
bits does not
make
it a poem.

necessarily.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

You cannot be wise & in love at the same time. - Bob Dylan

Tibetan proverb:
The secret to living well and longer is:
eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Know your Worth
You must find the courage to leave the table, if respect is no longer being served.
- T.Edwards

@torunn said
Know your Worth
You must find the courage to leave the table, if respect is no longer being served.
- T.Edwards

Great quotes Torunn!
😊

@wolfe63 said
Great quotes Torunn!
😊

Thank you! 🙂