When someone gives you a compliment, just accept it.

Don’t apologize for being yourself.

(Unless you’re a narcissist. Then you probably should apologize.)

People are good, but you’re WAY less likely to encounter them in the south. It’s a poisonous hellhole filled with mostly demons.

“If they are willing to cheat with you, they are willing to cheat on you.”

Maya Angelou: ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’

You choose which emotions to empower and which to discourage. I think Buddha said it?

Basically, you really can choose to focus on the good parts of life/an event and you don’t have to let the negatives consume you.

Expanding on the second point: we are what we focus on. if you are practicing to be the type of person who believes people are bad you look for the evidence of bad in people. “Everyone lets me down”. To do this requires discounting and avoiding and ignoring the good that people do.

This means if you do this sort of thing you’re also not that great of a person.

Just imagine being on the other side of it: think of all the nice things you might do for such a person and got overlooked because they focus on complaining about all the bad people in their life all just to prove people are bad.

In regards to having children. “You’re going to fuck them up in some way no matter what you do, just try to minimize it”

“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”

This has helped me learn nearly every physical skill I know.

Being is better then having and having is better then seeming.

Ps: If you are reading this share your 2 cents about the above. Came up with it myself!

Paraphrasing from Terrence McKenna.

“The one thing that seems constant through all the years is that… nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. Which is good news for some but will bum out others. Your happiness is slowly turning into something else, while your sadness will also become something else.”

“if you have a problem, you can either solve it or you can’t. If you can fix it, no problem! If you can’t, no point in worrying about it!” -from a cartoon sheep from Garfield and Friends, turns out this is writing a bodhisattva.

I’m shit at implementing this wisdom but it’s still pretty good.

Never hold onto anything so tightly that you can’t let go.

That startrek quote about making no mistakes and still losing

“Stairs are lots of little floors which makes it easier to get between the bigger floors” - Philomena Cunk

“The good things won’t be as good and the bad things won’t be as bad as the mind lead you to believe.” (Unknown source)