You are responsible for everything that happen to you, as people like to say. And change comes from within. And if you want to change the world, why not start with yourself?
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
She was housed in Middlesbrough.“They put me there, in a place where I knew no one. It was so depressing,” she said. “Before I came on this course, I was lonely, jobless, not integrated into society.” (Asylum seeker quoted in the Guardian)
You can completely change your world in a matter of minutes. (Charlotte Proudman)
The men decide to deviate from their original route and take an uncharted and seemingly little-used turning on the canal - a decision that they, and the reader, soon discovers is a very large and terrifying mistake. (Amazon commenter on EJ Howard’s short stories)
If somebody’s punching and slapping me, I punch and slap back. Luckily, that happened only, like, two times. I let it go, one time. And then they would just continue to push and shove me. And then I just pushed and shoved back and then it stopped. So. (Ideas man Erik Finman, 17)
Just be yourself, and everything will be fine:
'Just be yourself', people say. Until you actually are yourself. And then they say, 'Yeah okay, scale it back a notch.' (@matthaig1)
Oh god, this happens all the time on my university course. "I was only being honest." "Well don't be honest, be more diplomatic!" (@ArianeSherine)
I was always honest about my feelings. Not in a passive-aggressive way. Just being myself. And no one liked that. (Erik Finman)
Take a more ruthlessly strategic approach to following the instructions you’ve been given. Make sure you get seen at office happy hours but bail once everyone else is two or three drinks in, when they’re less likely to notice you’re slipping out early. Schedule one or two short breaks in your day when you know most of your colleagues are likely to be chatting in the halls or in the breakroom and spend five or 10 minutes chatting amiably before getting back to work. (Mallory Ortberg, slate.com)
When my daughter was 12, I told her I loved bird-watching as a child, and she burst out laughing and said 'You must have been so UNPOPULAR!' (@mrjohnofarrell)
If "no one ever talks about it" is said of a thing there is a 90% chance that everyone talks about it. (@BDSixsmith)
Local gangs looked askance at any form of ambition. (Bradley Wiggins)
When you have a drinking problem you feel like the drink is the only thing holding you together. (Jon Stewart Obs Nov 2015)
I’m thankful that no one is fact-checking the stories I tell about my life. I am not confessing to lies. But I’m not about to claim complete historical truth either (see my earlier post on the difference between historical and narrative truth). (Ira Hayman, Psychology Today)
One previous, and remarkably similar, incarnation was Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which had it that psychological conditions such as depression were nothing more than patterns learned by the brain and that success and happiness were just a matter of reprogramming it. The idea appeared in a more academic costume... in the form of what’s known as the Standard Social Science Model. “This is the idea from the 1990s where, in effect, all human behaviour is infinitely malleable and genes play no role at all.” (mosaicscience.com)
Those defending the Bible often quote nice words from Jesus. In truth these are mostly idealistic platitudes no sensible person could live by. (Noel McGivern @Good_Beard)
I think I prefer action to prayer. Try changing a flat tyre by the power of prayer. (Some Bloke in a Hat @toolegs)
Some commentators today honestly sound like tragedy hipsters “Bro – I care about suffering and death that you’ve never even heard of”. (@JamilesLartey)
When people don't like a scientific finding why do they think simply putting 'science' in inverted commas is enough to discredit the data? (James Wong @Botanygeek)
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