We don’t know what we don’t know.
Variables in human nature
result in compatibility and incompatibility.
Life: work, play, sleep, reproduce.
Many smart people take advantage
of many not-so-smart people.
We are prisoners of our limitations.
Humanity is on a collision course with reality.
Ignorance, a frightening force, is a juggernaut.
Below a very thin veneer of civility
lies simmering chaos.
To acquire anything
we must relinquish something.
Every crossroads offers options.
Our self-image may not be our self.
Swallow only what you’ve tasted.
Freedom is a decision.
The route to wisdom cannot be mapped.
Short-lived pleasures can have
lifelong consequences.
The habits we form
form us.
Beware of prosperity.
Archaic beliefs are self-imposed bondage.
The dues we pay
determine the club we join.
Discovery is a process, not an event.
With pluck and providence,
anything is possible.
Time is a tyrant.
Familiarity cannot be fabricated.
Carefully select the boat you will row.
It rarely hurts to look good.
We must endure each other’s education.
We must let go to go on.
What we cling to
slips through our grasp.
Excessive partying ends the party.
Arrogance alienates.
A morning is loaded with potential.
One cannot debate the illogical.
The problem is that everyone sees
the same things differently.
Some search for truth,
others for jobs.
To rush is to invite delays.
Life is a bouquet
of triumphs and tragedies.
There is no illness more severe
than self-importance.
Time is our only constraint.
Waves of relentless thoughts
crash into and furrow our brows.
Emotions obscure objectivity.
Abuse invites catastrophes.
Setbacks build humility.
Assure the correctness
of your assertions.
Like best where you are or move on.
We travel far for what is close at hand.
Hearts heal, but scars remain.
Far easier is it to buy than to pay.
Promises cannot compete with performance.
We age less from years
than from lifestyle.
Philosophy is more easily contrived than lived.