56 Aphorisms and 10-Second Essays

paradoxicalsentiments:

by James Richardson

  1. No matter how fast you travel, life walks.
  2. Desire’s most seductive promise is not pleasure but change, not that you might possess your object but that you might become the one who belongs with it.
  3. There are silences harder to take back than words.
  4. Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.
  5. If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.
  6. Wind cannot blow the wind away, nor water wash away the water.
  7. Our lives get complicated because complexity is so much simpler than simplicity.
  8. Everyone loves the Revolution. We only disagree on whether it has occurred.
  9. Pain is not a democracy.
  10. Once it’s gone, how easy to say it was mine.
  11. The world is not what anyone wished for, but it’s what everyone wished for.
  12. The great liars are credulous; they have convinced themselves first of all.
  13. Like late afternoon, a pale cirrus crosses the nearly transparent moon. They are so alike, meeting, that I feel, suddenly and childishly, They like each other. Somehow I can’t help liking them for that. Somehow I can’t help feeling that they like me liking them.
  14. My weaknesses are less remarkable than all the things I have at one time or another imagined were my strengths.
  15. Stand watch over your peace and you will be peaceless.
  16. What I’m not changes more than what I am.
  17. So many times I’ve made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted.
  18. The wound hurts less than your desire to wound me.
  19. Think of all the smart people who are made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn’t fine long when used as a hammer.
  20. To lose weight or regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear.

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