My Med Today

“When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.”
― Epictetus

"There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.""
-Robert Flaherty

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”
― Marcel Proust

“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

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"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
-C.C. Scott

"The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy."
-Eudora Welty

“Did you have a rough month? I did but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG”
― Pablo

“One always has a choice.”
― Dona Wording

"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of becoming a prophet."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity."
- Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu

"Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't."
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

"Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear."
- Author Unknown

"Don't be mean when you've had a bad day. Be nice, and your day will get better."
- Terri Guillemets

“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men were both at once, men could only truly know the side of themselves that saw and the side of others that was seen—they could only truly know the inner half of themselves and the outer half of others.
At first Esmenet thought this foolish. Was not the inner half the whole, what was only imperfectly apprehended by others? But Kellhus bid her to think of everything she’d witnessed in others. How many unwitting mistakes? How many flaws of character? Conceits couched in passing remarks. Fears posed as judgements …
The shortcomings of men—their limits—were written in the eyes of those who watched them. And this was why everyone seemed so desperate to secure the good opinion of others—why everyone played the mummer. They knew without knowing that what they saw of themselves was only half of who they were. And they were desperate to be whole.
The measure of wisdom, Kellhus had said, was found in the distance between these two selves.
Only afterward had she thought of Kellhus in these terms. With a kind of surpriseless shock, she realized that not once—not once!—had she glimpsed shortcomings in his words or actions. And this, she understood, was why he seemed limitless, like the ground, which extended from the small circle about her feet to the great circle about the sky. He had become her horizon.
For Kellhus, there was no distance between seeing and being seen. He alone was whole. And what was more, he somehow stood from without and saw from within. He made whole …”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
-Robert Frost

“Life is an essay you yourself have to write, start to finish.”
― Mo

"I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution."
-Wernher von Braun

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth-that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way-an honorable way-in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words,"The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

“Trust is learning how you feel about yourself,
not how others feel about you.
Do you trust how you feel.
If not, why.”
― Ron W. Rathbun

“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body...”
― Kiley MacLeod

“It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”
― Suman Jyoty Bhante

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
-Henry David Thoreau

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It's for you to know, so that you may live; that by knowing you can live."
-Thor, ChristianDM's imaginary friend.