We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
All deaf people would kill for an opportunity to spend the entire day listening to sober adults whine.
The happiest people are not those who have the most, but those who are the most grateful for what they have.
Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.
The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.
Some people would kill for the results or situations because of which some people have killed themselves.
It is impossible to count your blessings while you are counting the things with which you need or want to be blessed.
There are often many people dying from thirst while many people are running for dear life away from the rain.
Because our minds are problem solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.
We are almost always way more grateful to be alive, when we are laughing, than we occasionally are, when we are praying.
You need to be blessed with things such as sanity to realize that you have been cursed with things such as poverty and disability.
It is comforting, after finding out that your loved one has just drowned, to estimate the number of times their life was saved by water.
Nobody is stopping you from using things such as your ability to read or hear as your definition of success or wealth.
All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.
Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.
Oftentimes someone leaves their partner who is comparable to the sun for someone else who is comparable to a spark.
12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
A promotion usually increases the amount of money we can spend on our loved ones, but decreases the amount of time we can spend with our loved ones.
Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.
Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.
Every now and then, someone blames their not being physically strong for their not being able to think of a solution.
He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.
Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.
Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.
Depression is usually the result of focusing on a negative thought or situation way more often and for way longer than usual.
Life is millions of billions of trillions of transformations of something into some things, or another thing; never into nothing.
Expecting difficulties is wise, if that usually gives you the strength to continue, and foolish, if that usually takes away the courage to begin.
An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.
I do not mind someone talking to me, as long as they do not mind me not listening or talking to them.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.
We played the main role in the doing of some things we didn’t do, by saying they couldn’t or wouldn’t be done.
Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.
To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.
The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.
Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.