#practical quotes

[dragoneyes613]

What is generally referred to as "truth" is actually what a person wishes to believe.

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. I've Gotta Get Out of My Way! Eliminating the Obstacles to Success

[wocado]

Risk more than others think is safe ~ @Starbucks

Risk more than others think is safe.

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[dragoneyes613]

One would think that with the unprecedented comforts and conveniences that modern science and technology have delivered, we would be riding on a crest of happiness. Growing up in the 1930s, I knew a world in which life was difficult. Prior to the advent of antibiotics, the average life expectancy was fifty. Every major city had a tuberculosis sanitarium, and this disease cut people's lives short in their thirties. There was no immunization. Our house was quarantined when I had all the childhood diseases: measles, chicken pox, scarlet fever, mumps, whooping cough. A backache in the summer brought the dread of polio. In absence of air-conditioning, we suffered in sweltering heat. There were no electronics to make work easy. The kitchen was a workplace: no fast or frozen foods, no microwave ovens, few takeouts. Laundry was done on a scrubbing board. Travel was a chore. There were no jet planes, so New York to California took sixty hours by train. My first car was a 1936 Plymouth, no power steering, no power brakes, no air-conditioning. There was no television, no smartphone, no computers. If people in the 1930s had been told what life would be like in the twenty-first century, they would not have believed it possible, but might have said, "If that materializes, we will have Paradise on Earth." What is the twenty-first century Paradise? The drug epidemic killing off youth, depression and anxiety rampant. Billions of doses of tranquilizers and antidepressants swallowed to escape the misery of "Paradise." Rehabilitation centers flourish because addictions are on the increase. The number of children growing up in a single-parent home is unprecedented. That is not the way the world was intended to be. Instead of a genuine happiness, we have a counterfeit happiness. Instead of a real "self," we have a pseudo-self, and we have been deluded into believing it's real. Technology has improved communication...or has it? One can see a group of teenagers hanging out together, essentially ignoring each other's presence as they punch the keys to send text messages. The emotional bonds in face-to-face contact have been eliminated by electronics

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. I've Gotta Get Out of My Way! Eliminating the Obstacles to Success

[wepicy]

Fremen Quote By Frank Herbert, “The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said.Nothing about religion is simple.” Frank Herbert, - Dune

[lukianocom]

Joel Osteen – I deal with more practical issues of the Bible… I deal with more practical issues of the Bible. Joel Osteen

[blisstag]

True That!

[manasrawat]

Ignorance is bliss - only if accompanied by silence. Otherwise its annoying.

Manas

[bunnbacon]

I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.