The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Nathaniel Borenstein.

At a certain level of self-awareness, it will inevitably happen regularly that one finds oneself repulsive.

I forget who said it.

“If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards” -Tommy Boy tagline

“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken!” - Col. Sanders

never trust a fart

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

Read it, and I mean really read it. then think about what it is that you inherited that you defend and why you should continue to defend it.

“If you’re out to get the honey, then you don’t go killin’ all the bees” - Joe Strummer

I can’t post the whole Qur’an (and, as a message from the Divine, it’s hard to call it “wisdom”, it’s a bit more uhh axiomatic than that), and I won’t post the entirety of Ecclesiastes (but if you’re in a moment of existential questioning, I think reading it would be very helpful!), but I will post a passage from the NT, Matthew 25-34, because it might be useful to some of you as it has been to me (and my somewhat anxious wife likes it too!).

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

I’m going to butcher it, but it’s something like: The more you learn the more you realize how little you know.

Your favourite restaurant will end before you do

“The only winning move is not to play.”

Following from your post about indecision: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”

The moto I live my life by is “The day you stop learning is the day you become obsolete.”

The one I wish more people took to heart is, “After everything has been said, and everything has been heard, these three remain: faith, hope, and love. The greatest of these is love.”

Just love each other, that’s all I’m asking for.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.

• Jean-Luc Picard. In Star trek: The Next Generation s2e21

All form is interpretation

Serenity Prayer:

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

I’m not religious at all, but you can just kinda omit the first 3 words and the meaning is the same.

It’s pretty much the basis of Acceptance Commitment Therapy - which is an effective way to manage anxiety and depression.