Aphorisms Galore- what's been on my mind lately

In times of grief our happiest memories can be the source of our greatest pain.

Uncertainty over past actions inhibits our ability to grow.

I would rather be hurt by someone I love than ever have to feel the remorse caused by hurting another.

Anyone who cannot trust another probably should not be trusted.

Sometimes the right choice brings more heartache and tears than the wrong. We cannot base moral decisions on our own comfort.

The masks we wear never stay intact through the crucible of personal trial.

Time dulls the varnish of compromise.

Those who routinely detour around hills never build the strength needed to climb mountains.

Old memories rarely come in color; the past is seen in black and white.

Getting to know someone new is like seeing a city from far down the road, those tiny warning signs you can barely make out from a distance tend to be the biggest billboards.

There will always be more willing to be diners than cooks.

It always surprises me how much people yearn to conform… up until the moment they are told to.

Life is an engine that can’t be shut off, and time is the precious gas. Will you waste your time in idle, or climb the highest peaks? In the end it won’t matter how long you lasted. You’ll only really care how far you went.

Those who compartmentalize their moral character in the end prove nothing but their lack of it.

We only notice the movement of the sun when it begins to darken.

If you live to avoid pain you're living in avoidance of knowledge.

Loving before a friendship has evolved is like eating meat before cooking it.

Never be ashamed of the ignorance in your past, the redwood feels no shame over the size of the seed it grew from.

Commanders of armies seem full of bravery because they seldom have as much to lose as the common foot soldiers.

We are all blessed with wisdom, but only a wise few choose to use it.

In the end, the way you went won’t matter nearly as much as what you did along the way.

We are all of us damaged, some deeper, and some more severely than others. What really sets us apart is how much we try to hide it.

How ironic it is that those who are the most truthful are also the most mysterious. It is so much easier to see through to the baseness of a liar than to stare into the depths of the honest.

Nothing is really moral if it is done solely because it is expected of us.

We are not here to follow blindly, but to forge our own paths.

We often long for the exact things we are unwilling to give to others.

My mistakes are just as valuable as my accomplishments in regards to what I have learned as a result. Because of this, guilt is easily seen as a pointless obstacle of growth.

Suppressing our desires does nothing to accomplish mastery over them. The only way to truly conquer is to fully accept and understand our weaknesses.

Devotion to a life of honesty takes true courage. Only the spineless dabble in deception.

Life is only as meaningful as we choose to make it.

Excuses are rare delicacies we save for ourselves, but there always more than enough criticisms to go around.

Do questions need answers?

If you go the same way everyone else seems to be going, you’ll probably end up the same way they all seem to be ending up.

Blind rebellion is just as enslaving as blind conformity.

Never be so afraid of life that you forget to live it.

Our actions are affected by the kinds of thoughts we have just as our thoughts are affected by the kinds of actions we take.

Wisdom is action, foolishness reaction. Wisdom would shape the struggles that shape the fool.

Fear of failure is fear of growth. We are not here to display our strengths but to explore and struggle with our inadequacies.

Happiness cannot be the goal. Happiness is a by-product of living a life of meaning.

The man who lives only in action is just as dead as the man who lives solely in thought.

Maturity has almost no correlation with age. We can easily move forward through time while still holding to childish views of our past.

The second that I think myself superior I remove all possibility that I am.

It is usually the weak that try to persuade you of their strength.

My biggest regrets are not the mistakes I’ve made but the lessons I failed to learn.

Just because the wise man built his house upon the rock doesn’t mean an earthquake will hesitate in ripping it down.

When you believe yourself to be the exception you become the rule.

How strange it is that we are at our strongest when we realize how weak we are.

Our strength is composed of our scars.

Truth in its purest form is simplicity. Never make the mistake of thinking less of a truth because of how easily it is understood.

The best thing you could do to encourage the progression of another is to believe in their ability to progress.

More is learned in the process than in the completion.

True strength is a test of endurance.

My biggest fear is not that I won’t live up to the expectations of other’s but that I won’t live up to my own.

Of all emotions, shame helps progression the least.

We struggle to reach our potentials because we are more afraid of change than we are of failure. We are too often content with the relative comfort of the status quo.

Wounds heal when forgotten and scar when picked at. If you want to heal, forgive. Otherwise go ahead and fester.

The best way to avoid growth is to pretend we don’t need it.

Beauty can only be seen without us when it can be felt within us.

Our weaknesses often cower directly behind our strengths.

It’s the sign of true wisdom to understand that there and endless things you will never comprehend in this life.

Our hidden wants and desires are the clearest indications of our true nature.

Never let the expectations you have for others overcrowd the ones you hold for yourself.

We cannot rely on our own earthly perception to find transcending knowledge. Truths of the spirit are seen by eyes of the spirit, heard by ears of the spirit and can only be shared through the voice of the spirit. Enquire of men to understand things of man, but to understand things of a higher nature we must enquire of a higher source.