Meanings

‘…the last man on earth met the first woman. She said, “We made you” He heard no more… not a word’

This is not a riddle

“If you feel you do not like someone, do not let it grow worse. Offer to do them some kindness they might accept or give them a present they might like. Explain to them with the lamest reason in a way that seems like you just did that merely because you like them. Because you will”

Peaceable

“A man decides he likes a woman and hopes to find reasons to like her more. A woman decides she likes a man and hopes NOT to find reasons to like him less. So if you’re the man, better come clean first while you seek her attention. Because her mind reinforces her trepidation by every UNPLEASANT surprise. If you’ re a woman, better let him discover your coolness SLOWLY while you have his attention. Because his mind reinforces his anticipation by every PLEASANT surprise”

Attraction

“There are not many things quite as NOBLE as to DEFEND people behind their backs and NEVER mention a word of it to them. Especially people who have caused you some PAIN in the past. You never let them know about it. And your WILLFUL choice to keep your kindness HIDDEN from them preserves the INTEGRITY of your virtue. And it brings PEACE to your own Soul, and improves your CHARACTER“

Goodness

“You are only as poor as it bothers you, and as distressfully bothered as ungrateful

Gratitude

“Actions are the truest statements of beliefs”

Belief

“There is such a thing as repaying evil with EVIL. But there is NO such thing as repaying with evil AGAINST evil. Evil can only INCREASE with more evil. And it doesn’t matter what different forms it takes, or what opposing sides it appears to be. The very act meant to condemn evil could end up only arguing for more EVIL”

Evil

“There’s no such thing as a WHITE LIE. There are only white-washed lies. If you ever think you’re lying to redeem a situation. You’re only lying to postpone the situation. And you better hope on the day you are found out, the situation would not have evolved too far in hiding beyond redeemable. TRUTH is the only tool for redeeming properly, even if it is COSTLY. And even if no one will ever find out your lies, know that in every little lying, you only corrupt your own character and strengthen your inclination to be more comfortable with lying, enough to do it more in the future. Anyhow it turns out, you surely pay for lying”

Lying

“Science and Religion only seem to contradict each other when either of them steps beyond the bounds of their relevant claims”

Religion

“We will always have regrets, no matter how well we carefully try to live our lives. There is little we can do about that. What we can do any much about however, is how much we live to regret. So what does this mean? Maybe it means we need to practice enough COURAGE to challenge our inclinations, and learn enough HUMILITY to recognize our limitations”

Courage

“The only thing worse than a problem is a problem half analyzed. A solution may be sure to eliminate the symptoms of it, but will only risk to ignore and even invigorate the substance of it”

Problem Solving

“Freedom may not be so much about the power to lay hold of whatever we desire as it is about the power to let go of whatever we desire. Because our desires are not so much of the things we lay hold of as they are the things that lay hold of  us”

Freedom

“Your expensive college education was for you to learn to think critically be sure not to reduce it to some political circus art”

Education