"Apologizing does not always mean that you are wrong and the other person is right. It just might mean that you value your relationship more than your ego." (Mark Matthews) Egos keep us alive (they are good at survival stuff!) but they can sure keep us lonely.
"Intelligent: Not because you think you know everything without question, but because you question everything you know.” (A social media posting, author unacknowledged) If we look at people who have made large contributions to society (Einstein, Curie, Churchill, Anthony, Fleming, King, Sanger, Bader Ginsburg….) they all questioned the status quo to find something more, something better. We can do that too. Maybe not on a make-the-history-books level, but certainly on a personal level.
In the film The Space Between Us there is a sign on the wall of the training arena: "You don’t have to use all of your muscles….only the ones you want to keep.”
"The best thing in life is finding someone who knows all your mistakes and weaknesses and still thinks you are completely amazing." (Yasmin Khan) Of course, in order to have this kind of relationship you need to be willing to be open and honest, allowing the other person to really know you, including all of your flaws and mistakes. If you try to hide the shadow parts of yourself from others (and often from yourself), you deprive yourself of the opportunity, even the possibility of having such an amazing relationship.
John Fire Lame Deer of the Lakota Tribe: “Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails.Therefore we had no criminals. You can’t have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a man was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were too uncivilized to set much value to personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man’s worth couldn’t be measured by it. We had no written law, no attorneys or politicians, therefore we couldn’t cheat. We really were in a bad way before the white men came, and I don’t know how we managed to get along without these basic things which, we are told, are absolutely necessary to make a civilized society.”
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." (Philosopher Jidda Krishnamurti)
May you think, question, and evolve to your highest potential.