Everything is twofold. There is the thing itself, and there is the picture of the thing which is in the mind. That mental picture is called an Idea.
When we have a task we want to accomplish, a condition we want to attain, or any purpose at all, we form a mind-concept of the thing desired. That is called an Ideal.
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Like almost everything else, self-confidence is a habit.
It is formed by persistently choosing to let the mind dwell upon our successes, and in turning our thoughts just as persistently away from our failures.
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Billionaires are fascinating people. Most of them are fucking pathetic and they don’t know it.
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Dear Dacian High Priest:
My favorite artist Kanye West said to whip Jews, but I don’t know what kind of whip to use. What do you recommend?
Marco
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Dear Dacian High Priest:
Can you recommend a good book written by a black author?
bookworm69
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Dear Dacian High Priest:
I have lost everything in the recent California fires. I need to know, were the fires caused by climate change like the media says?
Burnt Californian
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Dear Dacian High Priest:
I’m a huge Donald Trump supporter and I voted for him. I desperately tried to convince my wife to vote for him too but I failed. She voted for Kamala. This made me very sad. I love my wife, but should I punish her for what she did? And if so, how?
Trumpster47
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Dear Dacian High Priest:
Is homosexuality a sin?
Cuba Pudding Jr
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If you’re looking about for something to do, something big, something that will bring you fame and money, find something that can’t be done and do it.
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All the poisons are not kept in chained bottles on drug-store shelves.
All the cases of strange illness and wasting are not due to subtle drops from India nor mysterious powders sold by old witches.
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I was waiting for my coke dealer in a beautiful park in Timișoara when a man jumped from a nearby bush and took a seat right next to me on the bench.
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Certain plants never grow except in certain soils, edelweiss in the Alps, bananas in the tropics, and cacti in the sands of the desert. Wherever you find the plant called Humility in the human garden you will always discover real wisdom in the brain-soil that produces it.
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From your chin down you are worth about a dollar and a half a day.
From the chin up you are worth — anything. There’s no limit.
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All men tremble at punishment, all men fear death; remember that you are like unto them, and do not kill, nor cause slaughter.
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Happiness is rarely visible to the multitude, says a shrewd observer; it lies hidden in odd corners and quiet places.
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Whatever you get you pay for, one way or another.
The cheapest plan is to pay cash.
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One of the recent discoveries in the art of healing is the therapeutic value of suggestion. That is to say, the physician, by suggesting to the patient, particularly the patient suffering from nervous disorder, sane and helpful thoughts about himself, can work a cure better oftentimes than by the use of drugs.
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Always the pressure is on us.
Like a low ceiling, it makes us forever stoop, often crawl, sometimes grovel.
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