Ask Lemmy

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Choose your rut carefully.

No matter where you go, there you are.

• Buckaroo Banzai

This can be applied to anything, but the quote as I read it in a book by Piers Anthony (I know, gross, I was in middle school), was:

Power is a means to an end. Don't let the means become the end.

I often think of it as:

Money is a means to an end. Don't let the means become the end.

"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you're happy. But you don't really believe it. You focus on the petty bullshit, or the next job, or whatever. It's only looking back by comparison with what comes after that you really understand, that's what happiness felt like."

-Conrad Kellogg. Fallout 4.

"Sometimes, at the end of a sentence, I come out with the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a] I don't notice it, and b] sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster."

I think we can all take something away from that.

Two quotes/ statements from a book named “The Midnight Library” ;

• “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise”.

• “Never underestimate the big importance of small things”.

You won't know if you don't ask.

People fear rejection or embarrassment for asking other people questions but once you realize that it's the most efficient way to navigate life it really helps. Saves you time and energy. Often saves you emotional energy as well in the long run.

If you like someone just ask them.

If you want to know where someone got something or learned a skill just ask them.

Curiosity is important and I feel so many people are so socially anxious that they will just try and Google and Google as opposed to entering into a simple verbal exchange with a stranger or something.

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

"Things in life aren't always quite what they seem, there's more than one given angle to any one given scene. So bear that in mind next time you try to intervene on any one given angle to any one given scene."

The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.

I was going to post something cheeky like “Fuck here we go again”, noped out, pressed backspace and then this…

"If it weren't for my horse, I would've never spent that year in college."

I don't know what it means, but it has changed my life.

Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind

"Freedom is not a goal, but a tool".

-Reiraku (Downfall) By Inio Asano

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it."