Dean Alfange
- My Creed (abridged)
I seek to develop whatever talents God gave me - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat.
NautiusMaximus
- Letters and words
I've moved around a lot. I grew up at 2213 Craig Lane, Onalaska, WI 54650. When I graduated High School, I moved to 502 Lacy St, Fairbanks, AK 99701. After I finished my bachelor degree, I moved to 2321 Cool Spring Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783 to attend grad school. Then I got a job and moved to 131 Marley Rd, Elkton, MD 21921. A better job opportunity came along, and I moved to 97 Summit Trace Rd, Langhorne, PA 19047.
Mitch Hedberg
- 13th Floor
I'm staying in a hotel right now. There's no 13th floor because of superstition. But come on man, the people on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on.
Mitch Hedberg
- Above Ground Pools
I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool. It was 30 seconds long. You know why? Because that's the maximum amount of time you can depict yourself having fun in an above-ground pool.
Mitch Hedberg
- Forget Everything You Know About Slipcovers
I saw a commercial on late-night TV that said "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So, I did. It was a load off my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, and I didn't know what the hell they were.
Michael I. Bennet, MD
- F*ck Feelings: Getting to the root of your problem doesn't always yeild a solution
People prefer to believe that, with enough fact gathering, insight, and the heart-to-heart sharing of honest, heretofore suppressed, and probably embarrassing emotion, any problem can be sourced and solved. In fact, knowing why you've got a bad habit usually gives you no ability to stop it, and the search for deeper knowledge sometimes serves as an excuse for waiting until it's easier to stop, which it never is. So getting to the root of your problem is often a waste of time.
Michael I. Bennet, MD
- We're often f*cked
Neuroscience seems to show that many emotional and behavioral problems we thought were caused by bad parents or trauma are also caused by wiring that isn't reversible. This explains why self-improvement is hard and sometimes impossible, even when we're strong willed and well guided. In other words, we're often f*cked.
Fred Rogers
- The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
Nessmuck (George Sears)
- Types of Men
There are men who on finding themselves alone in a pathless forest, become appalled, almost panic stricken... These are the men who grow enthusiastic - at home - about sylvan life, outdoor sports, but always strike camp and come home rather sooner than they intended. And there be some who plunge into an unbroken forest with a feeling of fresh, free, invigoration delight, as they might dash into a crisp ocean surf on a hot day. These know that Nature is stern, hard, immovable...
Carl Jung
- Creativity
The creation of something new is not created by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Purpose of life
Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotten prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
