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I Philosophize

My thoughts and words about life...

1. The past is over, it can't be changed. Tomorrow is Forever, hope is held within tomorrow and regrets should be buried in the past.

2. Impress yourself and God, other's opinions don't mean much if you know you are living your life with virtue, it becomes worth it. Be honest with yourself and others. Honesty and courage are the two greatest virtues, without them nothing else really matters.

3. Time sometimes dulls the memory, it helps us forget. We may carry wounds and crosses in life but they lessen in time. Use the crosses and wounds as learning tools which teach you to become a better person.

4. Walking a few miles in another's shoes goes a long way in being grateful for the comfortable shoes you wear. Never judge a person's life you do not know of. Some people hide pain better than others. Smile at strangers, it may help them a lot.

5. The passage of time and experience comfort a thinking mind. Wisdom isn't found over night.

6. Happiness comes from peace of mind. Peace of mind comes from doing the right thing all the time, especially when nobody is watching. Never compromise your soul. Integrity is the glue to your soul.

7. Be grateful, somebody most likely is probably suffering a great amount of physical and emotional pain somewhere in a hospital or a nursing home. Do some volunteer work, make another person smile. Helping others smile goes a long way in making you smile.

8. Beware of people who laud you with many compliments and tell you, "you are the best." They most likely say this to a whole bunch of people. Be aware of the phonies.

9. Be an individual, true to yourself and heart/soul. Becoming part of group thought is never healthy.

10. Use logic, reason and common sense when coming to a conclusion. Seek truth and wisdom. Know the difference between confirmation bias and reality.

11. Give humbly and with graciousness. Never expect anything in return or words of praise for doing good and caring about another human being.

12. Respect those who deserve respect. Disconnect from people who don't deserve your respect. You don't need to be a doormat in life.

13. Embrace critical thinking. Be open to new ideas which are based upon merit and not ideological indoctrination and brainwashing.

14. Perseverance and challenging yourself every day keeps you vibrant. We are only as good as our last at bat in a baseball game. Never be content to exist in mediocrity or left mired with excuses. Try and fail but try again and again with the intention of making a difference and becoming better.

15. Know freedom isn't free. Do what is required to maintain freedom and be grateful to those in the past who paid the ultimate price so you can have the opportunity to live free.

16. Live your life and don't settle for existing. Don't be passive toward evil, evil can only thrive when good men and women remain silent. We can all ignore reality at times but we can never ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." -Montesquieu-


"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -C.S. Lewis-


“The Communists’ chief purpose is to destroy every form of independence—independent work, independent action, independent property, independent thought, an independent mind, or an independent man. Conformity, alikeness, servility, submission and obedience are necessary to establish a Communist slave-state.” -Ayn Rand-


"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher-


“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.” -George Orwell-


"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." -Aldous Huxley-


“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” -Aldous Huxley-

“Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” ― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave.


“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
-Ayn Rand-


"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke-


"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-


“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.' "
-St. Anthony the Great-


"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?"
-Ayn Rand-


A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
-Booker T. Washington-


“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
-George Orwell-


"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
-St. Augustine-


“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
-John Stuart Mill-


"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
-Aristotle-


“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
-John Wayne-






“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.” -Ronald Reagan-




"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” -Ronald Reagan-




“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”

-Thomas Jefferson-




"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

-John Adams-


Everything good has been destroyed or is being destroyed. I feel lucky to have grown up in an era where men and women were free and common sense reigned supreme. Today's world sucks, those that can't see this, well refer them to Plato's quote above.