If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
I think that's why I wanted to write about seventh grade. I'd say seventh grade is a time when kids are really exploring a lot and becoming aware of the world around them in a deeper way. And they just have sort of have a wider appreciation of what's happening around them. They are seeing themselves from the outside more than they had before.
Now, as Mandelbrot points out,. . . Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology.