Applause & Regrets

Those who hold their applause
Don’t live to regret it.
11.01.12

Stories & Statistics

The human mind
Prefers stories to facts
And dreams to statistics.
10.31.12

Patience & Impatience

Patience is a divine gift
Impatience, a plebeian attribute.
10.30.12

Mind & Key

Waste no time on an interlocutor
Who has lost the key
To his mind.
10.29.12

Age & Youth

Old eyes gaze at and envy youth
Young eyes gaze at and covet youth
But no eyes envy or covet age.
10.28.12

Mire & Passion

Mired in mental fatigue? 
Find a new passion.
10.26.12

Criticism & Praise

Those who reject criticism
Repudiate truth
And invite false praise
10.25.12

Said & Seen

In politics
What is unsaid and unseen
Is more important than what is said and seen.
10.24.12

Animate & Inanimate

With few exceptions
The animate ages quickly
And becomes less valuable with time
While the inanimate ages slowly
And becomes more valuable with time.
10.23.12

Intimacy & Simplicity

Intimacy
Is the sharing
Of simple pleasures.
10.22.10

Incompetence & Excuses

The incompetent
Blind to their own shortcomings
Can always find excuses.
10.21.12

Enemies & Love

If we cannot love our enemies
We should at least pity them.
10.20.12

Secrets & Shame

Unvoiced, secret thoughts
Are universal and invariably shameful.
10.19.12

Military & Demography

Military power
Is demographically impotent
And temporally ephemeral.
10.18.12.

Elegance & Dignity

Elegance
Has everything to do with dignity
The dignity of behavior, speech, and form
Than it has to do with style, fashion, and beauty.
10.16.12

Inculcation & Truth

It is much easier to spin our intelligence
Defending our childhood inculcations
And denying their falsehoods
Rather than jettisoning them
In favor of truth.
10.15.12

Mind & Convicing

It is futile
To try to convince
A closed, made-up mind.
10.14.12

Power & Greatness

Silence between lovers
Is unvoiced conversation
Between apprehensive souls.
10.13.11

Thinking & Career

Thinking
Like any complex career
Requires much study and learning
And many years of experience
Before it can be trusted.
10.11.12

Writing & Humanity

Writing
In spite of technology
Is the greatest invention
Of humanity.
10.11.12

Soul & Others

Life is a chance
To elevate one’s soul
Through helping others
Not at the expense of others.
10.10.12

Trained & Untrained

An untrained mind
Like an untrained athlete
Loses all its races.
10.09.12

Politeness & Impoliteness

Politeness is a learned courtesy
Taught by the consequences of impoliteness.
10.08.12

Crowds & Discourtesy

The busier the crowd
The greater the discourtesy.
10.07.12

Complainers & Effects

Habitual complainers
Underestimate how often they complain
And how tiresome complaining is to listeners
And how counter productive it becomes with time.
10.06.12

Delay & Hope

Sometimes a bad delay
Begets a good outcome;
The unforeseen is hope.
10.05.12

Nations & Chess

Nations are not good chess players;
They can think one or two moves ahead
But they are blind to what lies beyond their myopia.
10.04.12

Desires & Worth

Resisting certain desires

Makes a person better 

Whereas losing desires 

Makes a person worse.

10.03.12

Superiority & Infiriority

Whenever we feel superior
We need to be reminded that
Superiority is always ephemeral
While inferiority is eventually certain.
10.02.12

Primitiveness & Reason

Primitiveness
The diametric pole of enlightenment
Resists evidence and reason
With brains pre-programmed
With unreasonable beliefs.
10.01.12