Quotes

Long quotes

• Life isn’t just or unjust. Life just is. It’s our responsibility to make it more fair.
• Don’t underestimate how badly poeple can misinterpret and misunderstand. Nuances are good, but complex words are not always necessary. If possible, a monkey should get it.
• The meaning of our thoughts can be lost or distorted by speaking, writing, reading… But simplicity can keep it clear.
• Good mood is like a disease, spread it everywhere until earth be heaven! Expect them to be nice so it takes them more effort to not be.
• What’s the value of your life?
• Assuming it existed, god created the universe because it was bored of nothingness. Suffering is better than death because at least it is something.
• Suicide is giving up. Don’t give up. “nothing” isn’t better than suffering. Suffering is something. Even if there is an afterlife, our time here is limited.
• Sometimes things arent that dark, but we’ve been using sunglasses in the rain, instead of dancing.
• Technology cured boredom. And thinking.
• Being right is nothing more that not finding a reason to be wrong.
• Everyone has a dark side. The difference between the crazy and the “normal” is only due to self control. Be the master of the beast inside! Often the best way to do that is joy.

Childhood

• We must never stop trying to understand all that surrounds us. Don’t stop after childhood. Don’t let the train of life take you away without thinking if it’s the right one for you. You should be driving it.
• And make sure you don’t leave your inner child behind.
• Childrens have the easiest time changing but it is possible at any age.
• Don’t kill the child inside you to look strong to others. He remained, you never died (fact that you are reading this proves it). But you can kill him small pieces at a time. Don’t be ashamed of looking at sponge Bob, or whatever childhood fantasy you had.

Be smart

• Nobody is perfect. So don’t expect it from others, and, most importantly, from yourself.
• Money is not a goal by itself.
• Don’t do something simply because everyone does it, this is the thing that takes most of our humanity. Think by yourself! Those who don’t think follow. We need more watchdogs.
• Trust is like a bird, easy to scare, and taking a long time to return, if ever.
• Energy can be created from nothingness, otherwise we, and the entire universe, would not exist. So create that energy for yourself and others : think positively.
• You never have enough friends, but always too much enemies. And always keep the key of the box in which you lock people up; give then room to evolve.
• A lot of the things that occur to us already occured to others. We have more in common than we think.
• Best to look stupid and be smarter by making mistakes than the opposite. And best to seem unsure instead of tricking people.
• We don’t need to bother too much with what others think of us. First wonder, what do you think of yourself? Remind yourself others remember as much of your mistakes as you do theirs, which is to say not much.
• Appearance < content. Be, instead of seeming.
• Sometimes you should help yourself rather than others.
• “Just stop thinking and start acting.” I wish that it was that easy. But life just isn’t worth living alone.
• It is more difficult to find problems within yourself than in others. But at least try, sometimes. And then decide what to do about it, but make sure to not keep returning on idle thoughts and judgements about it.
• Dislexy made me question everything I think I know. Doubt is my country. Analysis is my home.
• Humans do not steal, kill or hurt others. Those who do unleash the beast inside them, and that’s all they become.
• In order to kill, you first have to kill a part of yourself. DON’T!
• No one has the right to kill and no one deserves to die.
• It’s better to give up hope before it grows too much if it is hopeless.
• Once I wondered if I was spied upon. But it is the one spying on me who should think about that. I wont change who I am because of it.
• If machines aren’t doing mistakes, its simply because they can’t do anything new… Yet…
• Everybody is nice but sometimes life or others aren’t towards them. Be nice to people and you will find them nicer. Some have had a lot of problems.
• Prejudices are like a bubble limiting your thoughts and perspectives. Get out of it and you will find unlimited possibilities!
• People can change easier than prejudices, accord those two!
• If thoughts have more power than we think, faith might bring god. But let’s act to make sure that good things happen instead of relying on it. Don’t we all hate it when our fate is decided by others? Assume it is, and if it isnt it wont change a thing.
• I hate ads. They make us stupid, trying to convince the primitive brain of a need when what we need is not material, it is essence, purpose. They can’t give it to you, and only make you think they do. If you are satisfied you wont need to buy it again…
• Life is like a dish, it can be fade without spice, excitement.
• One never thinks too much unless there isnt enough action.
• We always have the time. It’s just limited, and we need to prioritize it. On the shortness of time
• Our society is developing technology too fast with capitalism, and now we act like kids with guns… NUCLEAR ones.
• Grow up, guys! Or get back to throwing stones.
• Symbiosis. THE most beautiful thing. What allows us to be. We must never forget that and we can become more… let the only limits be cooperation and the laws of physics! (Can the second one be broken tough?)
• I don’t see any issues. Just potential improvements and challenges. We can always be more, we just have to want it badly enough.
• Man’s great achievements were first made by one small group and then another one built on that and on and on… It s the fruit of cooperation, and we have to unite as a people in order to achieve great things now more than ever.
• We may go faster alone, but the trip will seem long and empty. Stop running away. Live. Connect.
• Possession does not exist (except on our own body). All the rest is just a concession made by society.
• Everything changes.
• Making good habits is the art of being tired by great things. Thinking those things are normal instead of being amazed by life.
• Don’t compare yourself with others but with what you aspire to be. But dont forget its all about the journey.
• Heroes need a tragedy to be recognised. Most of us are potential heroes, just needing the right circumstances to prove it.
• God could simply be waiting for humanity to mature to reach us.
• But is god the one described in the bible? Whatever words we made up and our minds would not be enough to understand such a god. God is all of us, so to fix things we best get moving.
• We can look at the very small in a similar way as we look at the huge. A solar system is a molecul. A galaxy is a human being. A universe, a socitety that works together.
• Medias are meant to inform people, which might influence them. But they are not meant to control them by fear.
• Our advice is not truly ours, it is shared between poeple and as they do so does it.
• There is a child in all of us, left from our past selves. Don’t try too hard to break with that child only to look good in society. They all have those urges to do something that the child would want…
• Use your rage or despair… all strong emotions as sudden burst of fuel for difficult moments. One can create rage by remembering moments of the recent past or artificially creating it altough in that case it is less efficient.
• Be conscient and try to improve others for experience for that is the only true teacher.
• Do not lie to yourself and never stop justifying things. Auto pilot is when we stop living.
• For life, I just follow the music, wherever that takes me, whoever is writing it. Some could call it luck, things just have a way of turning fine.
• Often when you smile at life and people, they smile back.
• It’s not having a nice jacket that makes one worthy. It’s being able to, but yet not doing it.
• Algorithms parsing people from their actions and writings are not compatible with democracy.
• This is democracy? Please. Is this dictatorship? Not really, most people gave up on true conscience. What is it then? Something that most evolve.
• Whatever happens, know that you can always find a painting in the sky.
• Smbd wise is smbd who knows the limit of their knowledge.
• I have become me. Finally, I feel. Finally, I act. Finally, I experience fully. Finally, I live! And then I realized how all things afflicting me were also upon others. Deficiencies, motivation, …
• You cant change a system, just like you cant change the rain, but you control how you react to it.
• I can’t help but feel like I was a boxer in another life. It calls to me.
• You can’t just teach philosophy/psychology to someone and expect them to follow it. But religion…
• We are all on the journey of life. We can decide to make it harder for ourselves, and most importantly to handle it seriously. This is how character is shaped.
• Everyone has an increadible depth.
• Dont force them to fit into a cliché idea you have of them because they happen to study that or do this.
• I read therefore I am. An appropriate book is the best gift you can make for someone.
• Sometimes I feel the hand of destiny, preventing me from changing its course. Is it an illusion, like free will?
• If I dont have the right to property, then I dont have a duty to uphold it either.
• You’ll never be able to fully control your outside environment. If it rains you might be able to protect yourself from that, but what if it’s too hot, or cold? If you find inner peace and acceptance you wont be disturbed by such frivolities anymore.
• We need to walk the talk of our values, lest they be empty of meaning.
• If you do something because of them then and only then can you affirm that value.
• Its unlikely simply reading these will change you. You need to live them, to notice them, to live by them.
• Reading is entering other’s souls.
• Attraction… Valuing… It is knowing we would be less happy if we were to lose it/them. So try without it and see how it goes.
• Men can fix the world. Heck they can do anything. They just need someone to do it for. That means to change society we must change female attraction.
• So you think you want to be smart? Are you willing to also be lazy? Lost in thoughts? Living existantial crises one afrer the one? Sometimes feeling disconnected? Feeling like others can’t truly see you? I think you’d be just as happy simple and innocent.
• To lost thoughts… I forgot some, they belong here.
  These are De Groodt Alexandre’s quotes, and his only. This is an extract of my soul, and I expect it to be named.
• Beauty can’t be taken, least it fades out, like a flower.