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Or maybe that’s just my perception. Often, what comes with age is not wisdom but intolerance.
There are some things in life you can alter—your weight, your appearance, even your name—but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those things are the ones that shape us. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can’t.
A principled man is generally a man who has everything he wants, or absolutely nothing to lose.
What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.
The thing you have to understand is that being a good person isn’t about singing hymns, or praying to some mythical god. It isn’t about wearing a cross or going to church every Sunday. Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing.”
We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope will give us the truth we want to hear. The problem is, you can’t choose your truths. Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not.
BEING AN ADULT is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up.
Maybe minds aren’t lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.
For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you strip those away we become just a mass of flesh, bone and blood vessels.
No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions.
