If indecisive, choose one of your top favorites. And by the holy powers bestowed unto me through the machinations of this platform, I grant thee to even post more than one, too!
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“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken!” - Col. Sanders
I can’t post the whole Qur’an (and, as a message from the Divine, it’s hard to call it “wisdom”, it’s a bit more uhh axiomatic than that), and I won’t post the entirety of Ecclesiastes (but if you’re in a moment of existential questioning, I think reading it would be very helpful!), but I will post a passage from the NT, Matthew 25-34, because it might be useful to some of you as it has been to me (and my somewhat anxious wife likes it too!).
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough” […]
I think some other quotes similar to this are:
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There is never a good time to do anything. [1]
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Perfection is lots of little things done well.
[Marco Pierre White] [2]
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Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
Being neurodivergent, this is the most efficient way to mentally deal with change (i fucking hate change even though its the only constant in life)
“The impediment to action advances action. What’s in the way becomes the way.”
This is basically saying that anything that gets in the way of you solving a problem becomes the new problem to solve.
“The tool works at both ends.”
This is about skill building and practice. Making cool stuff improves you as a result.
Something I like about each is that they work in reverse. No impediment in your way? You’re probably not going to have very focused forward movement. No need to use tools (literally or metaphorically)? You won’t become more skilled.
“know thyself”
Plato? I think it’s Plato idk
“Give everything you can, but never anything you need.”
I try to live by this. I give away every extra dollar, and help people every chance I get
If idioms count then my favorite is this one:
“I see,” said the blind man to his deaf wife over the phone.
My father would always say that to me growing up if i took too long to explain something 😅
“I see,” said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw.
That’s the version I heard as a kid
It’s not particularly wise, but it’s definitely my all time favorite.
“You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”
Almost always applicable.
We must imagine Sisyphus as happy
I won’t break it down, plenty of people have done that already. It’s one of those sorta zen points that’s both almost trivial and very difficult to understand
Don’t be a cunt!
nihil novum sub sole
Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. the goods we possess are not ours, but theirs.
- St John Chrysostom
The demands of justice must be satisfied first of all; that which is already due in justice is not to be offered as a gift of charity.
- Second Council of the Vatican
When we attend to the needs of those in want, we give them what is theirs, not ours. More than performing works of mercy, we are paying a debt of justice.
- Pope St Gregory
Three quotes referenced in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and just one example of the dissonance between many “Christians” in the U.S. and the faith they purport to follow.
If that doesn’t get them, the fact that the concept of social justice, as in the actual coining of the term as well as the movement against capitalist exploitation brought on by the Industrial Revolution was by the Catholics does lol
The meaning behind it all is very simple, we’re all in this together, and the gifts given to us by God/nature belong to all of us. They’re not for us to hoard, or to exploit others for.
