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isn’t it weird how it’s already february but it’s also only february

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

Wise words

“I am really moved and motivated by things that occur that are unjust. I’ve always hated people trampling on other people. I was in quandary, a philosophical quandary, because I tought, if I’m not my brother’s keeper, who am I? Where does my life end and my sense of responsibility for other lives begin?”  Listen to Me Marlon (2015) dir. Stevan Riley

So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for… and deserved. Which ever since I’ve… ever since I’ve always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or… evasion… but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.

Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

One of all-time greats.

RAFAEL NADAL / CHAMPION / USO ‘17

Types as Oscar Wilde Quotes

ESTJ: “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

ISTJ: “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

ESFJ: “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously–and have somebody find out.” 

ISFJ: “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

ENTJ: “There is no sin except stupidity.”

INTJ: “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”  

ENFJ: “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

INFJ: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”  

ESTP: “I can resist anything except temptation.”  

ISTP: “One should always be a little improbable.” 

ESFP: “Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.” 

ISFP: “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

ENTP: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” 

INTP: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

ENFP: “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

INFP: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Conditioned to be passive consumers, we confuse submission with security, celebrate obedience as virtue, and consent to self-destructive routines of agonizing repression, all because we lack the courage to step outside the prison cells that we affectionately regard as “comfort zones”.

Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumor or spread gossip.

In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about Diogenes?”

“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied, “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Triple Filter Test.”

“Triple filter?” asked the acquaintance.

“That’s right,” Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about Diogenes let’s take a moment to filter what you’re going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”

“No,” the man said, “Actually, I just heard about it.”

“All right,” said Socrates, “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about Diogenes something good?”

“No, on the contrary…”

“So,” Socrates continued, “You want to tell me something about Diogenes that may be bad, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued, “You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter, the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about Diogenes going to be useful to me?”

“No, not really.”

“Well,” concluded Socrates, “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me or anyone at all?”

The man was bewildered and ashamed. This is an example of why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

It also explains why Socrates never found out that Diogenes was banging his wife.