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"Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got." - Teddy Roosevelt
"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen
"Perfect is the enemy of good." - unknown
"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Yoda
Two things, actually. "You are fired", and "You are hired". Also, does "I do" count?
"being trans isn't a mental illness and it's ok to be yourself"
Of course it's an identity you are born with. Whoever says it's one is themselves suffering from mental illness. Probably one of the ones mentioned below by my assistant.
Starting listening to podcasts is what has probably made the biggest change in how I see the world. It's difficult to single out any individual thing from there but one worth mentioning would be the realization of no free will. It's quite a different looking world once you realize that things happen because of other things that happened in the past - not because an agent with free will just decided to do so.
https://youtu.be/npkeecCErQc?si=gYzjaai7eZEoJ5tq
Yellow Parenti. Helped to remove myself from obsession over optics and just do what helps people.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/npkeecCErQc?si=gYzjaai7eZEoJ5tq
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
When I was 16 I had my first job at a shitty fast food restaurant, and on the first day my manager told me, "The difference between a good job and a great one is often just a couple minutes "
20 years later It still pops into my head whenever I'm working on a project, or work task, or even just stuff around the house. Usually it's right when I'm about to quit or give up and call it "good enough". And for the most part, I've found it to be true.
"Gentoo can be easy or hard, depending on how you look at it"
Now I really need to hear how you look at it...
I just assume it's easy with instructions. It's turned out well till now
My favourite is:
If you're scared to spell out a scary, bad word, find another word to use instead of trying to hide it behind similar characters.
If we could understand but a flower it could change our life.
The mind is the athlete.
"Lead, follow or get out of the way."