"one can only go as high as they have been low"
From "Transcending the Levels of Consciousness."
Wisdom
"Your room is an externalization of your mind"
From a video short (see here) with Jordan Peterson. Request: Should I clean up?
"One is responsible for the effort but not the results"
Request: A useful reminder to release the desire to control the future.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
Priority request: A quote attributed to Nietzche, of all people. It has become sort of a mantra for resilience in the face of adversity.
"The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior"
Request: I just heard this in an interview of Jordan Peterson by Piers Morgan.
"no good deed goes unpunished"
a sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them -- wikipedia.
"fight fire with fire"
to use the same methods as someone else in order to defeat them -- request.
making a mountain out of a molehill
over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue -- wikipedia.
"What the thinker thinks, the prover proves"
"This idea is based on the fact that our senses filter what we see, hear, and taste based on our thinking. This can make illusions seem more believable, but they are still illusions, and are just thought, not reality" -- thefertilemind.net.
"this too shall pass"
It reflects on the temporary nature, or ephemerality, of the human condition — that neither the bad, nor good, moments in life ever indefinitely last -- wikipedia.
To err is human, to forgive divine
Alexander Pope said it.
“place no head above your own”
Attributed to the Buddha, but not likely from the Buddha.
if you're not against it, you're for it
A manipulative fallacy.
"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind"
Request: Gandhi quote.
statement: everything is being done for a payoff
Request: This is something I often live by and Hawkins has said the same thing.