“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval”
-Mark Twain
Self acceptance: Being comfortable in your own skin. All else risks a crisis of existential proportions.
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On Self Acceptance
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On the Power of Humor
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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
-Mark Twain
A person harboring resentment or fear is best served by finding their sense of humor.
On How a Little Certain Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”
-Mark Twain
The more tenaciously a thought is held, the more irrational it becomes. But it ain’t necessarily so.
On the Transience of Fame and the Myth of Glory
“It is a pathetic thought. We struggle, we rise, we tower in the zenith a brief and gorgeous moment, with the adoring eyes of the nations upon us, then the lights go out, oblivion closes around us, our glory fades and vanishes, a few generations drift by, and naught remains but a mystery and a name.”
-Mark Twain
What does it really mean, when we pass into inevitable oblivion, to possess fame or claim glory? Fame vanishes and glory dies in the press of our own ego.
It is nothing but what we leave behind that is important in the end. Best to consider what that might be while it is still in our power, lest we be caught with nothing at all to show for it