General Thoughts and Words about Life
26/03/07 13:03

Too many people pretend that life’s just a party; that nothing matters because we are always somewhere between sober and inebriated; that we don’t know anything because nothing is really knowable, and we’ll figure it out when we get there. Life’s not a party, but it’s no funeral either. It’s not a contest, a masquerade, or a bullfight. There’s no place for personal advancement and selfishness, false faces or machismo. It’ll all end too fast, and we are all too insignificant for any of these things to be meaningful.

Every burning anger was ignited by a spark of pain. Every cruel action is the result of a deep or personal hurt. There are no mean people in the world, only people who were damaged and their method of fixing the hurt damages others.

Love is the greatest mystery in the world. There is no scientific explanation for it and no definition of it. I would argue that there is nothing in the world for which the demand is higher and the apparent supply is lower, making love the most valuable thing in the world.

Sometimes, two opposites are so extremely opposite they begin to look the same. Someting that is -100º F will burn your hand the same as something that’s 300º. A lot of people couldn’t tell the difference between facism and communism, which are at opposite ends of the political spectrum. Sometimes pain and beauty break your heart just the same way. East meets West on the opposite side of the world from wherever you are.

Racism is based on imagined, non-existent cultural diffences. And these imagined differences, when confirmed in the minds of the masses, convert themselves into real differences. But in the end, all people have the same wants and needs; each culture is smart and stupid and efficient and wasteful in its own way. You’ll find every kind of people everywhere you go. Whatever kind of people you know right now, you’d find that kind of people wherever you might go.

The best a man can do is to enjoy his work, to find and appreciate the beautiful and happy things, to live honestly and to live with integrity.
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