Quietist Proverbs, Part 4

We mustn’t ever get upset, or complain.

Anger is a stone cast at a wasp’s nest.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. (Possibly makes more sense in a world of Montagues v. Capulets.)

Every minute I spend angry or resentful is 60 seconds of my life I just wasted.
Flaming burns the flamer not the flamed.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument.

If you love somebody, you will let them go. (Look, he’s not leaving me – the rat! – I’m letting him go! Isn’t that lovely?)

If you sit by the river long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.
If you’re angry, you’re wrong.

Judge not, lest you yourself be judged.
Living well is the best revenge.

Neglect will kill an injury sooner than revenge.
No reply is best.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Revenge never repeairs an injury.
Revenge only hurts the avenger.

Take no offence where none was intended.
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. (Confucius)
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.


The remedy for injuries is not to remember them.
There’s always an off button.
Turn the other cheek.

Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.
Violence never solved anything.


And they want us to shut up.
A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he heard,
the less he spoke.
The less he spoke.
The more he heard.
Let’s imitate that wise old bird.

If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. (US historian Will Durant)

Silence is a woman’s best garment.
Speech is silver, silence is golden. (Jewish proverb)
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

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Inspirational Quotes, 57

Just be yourself, looks don't matter, you're stronger on your own blah blah blah.

Often, Saga functions dramatically as a moral critic of society's loony hypocrisy. (Stuart Jeffries, Guardian blog on The Bridge 2014)

Happy teenagers earn more as adults. (Observer 2014)

Fairness is an imperfectly attainable goal for which any decent society should aim. (Ian Gordon)

Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel. (everydaylifelessons.com)

He got easily the things that I had to work hard for; amusements and friends and money. (The Odd Flamingo, Nina Bawden)

In general, dominant elements in a society dismiss the beliefs of less powerful elements as superstitious. (The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, Steve Roud)

[They had never] known a moment’s shame of friendlessness, never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym, never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom. (Jerusalem the Golden, Margaret Drabble)

I started to observe others... and acquired the trick of being part of the rest of the human race. I made tentative overtures to other girls at school, the quiet outcasts, and became part of a studious group which went to the cinema at weekends. (The Clothes on Their Backs, Linda Grant)

I was like a much-loved dog that counts on affection from everyone.
Frequently I reminded myself not to "act young" when people were present.
The status symbol principle had operated in the provinces quite as much as in London and conventional men seldom chose odd little wives.
(The Town in Bloom, Dodie Smith)

Infatuation dies a lingering, painful death. Even after all hope is gone the afterglow sometimes stubbornly clings on and on. (Murder, Obliquely, Cornell Woolrich)

Sherlock: We're in a good place. It's very affirming.
Watson: You got that from a book.
Sherlock: Everyone got that from a book.

I still haven’t forgiven the feminist movement of the 1970s for largely rejecting science as patriarchal, a fundamental mistake that’s taken decades to correct. (Wendy Grossman, The Skeptic April 2013)

People who are just shitty to you "for free", just for the sake of being mean, they are the worst. (Agata Pyzik)

I am fairly certain that [people read me] as a Fancy White Lady. Now that I have a wedding ring, I may have reached the very peak of privilege in my lifetime. (medium.com See the French girl who found she got more respect from shop staff and tradesmen if she called herself “madame”. And the woman who got more online writing work when she called herself Richard.)

Single? Do you make THESE mistakes in trying to get married? Click here now! (FB ad, 2014)

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