This is a Zenjoyable Blog about Keeping Calm amidst Turbulence.
In pure pop parlance (Bowie), take the Three-Step Approach –
One – Take Your Protein Pills
Two – Put Your Helmet On
Three – And may God’s Love be with you.
Step One – Take Your Protein Pills (above image).
Dan Estrin of Hoobastank and “The Reason” (Protein Pills) he keeps so healthy fit.
Step Two – Put Your Helmet On (above image).
Me and Albin Johnson (founder of Star Wars 501st Garrison putting my personalised (Sharks Teeth and Daruma) Shadowtrooper helmets on.
In paraphrasing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” modus operandi : Ground Control to Major Tom > Commencing Countdown – Engine’s On – Check Ignition – And may God’s Love be with you!
Step Three – And may God’s Love (and Wisdom) be with you (above image). Nice teeth, Sally!
I want to share with you some wise Adages that I have gravitated towards and provided a soothing balm to me over the years.
Read On and Zenjoy!
o The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.
o Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
o Loneliness is the poverty of self. Solitude is the richness of self.
o Every smile makes you a day younger.
o A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.
o It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
o The easiest way to make a dollar is to save a dollar.
o If you want to be a good person, seek good people as friends
o Only when they all contribute their fire wood; can they build up a strong fire.
o To understand your parent’s love, you must raise children yourself.
o Parents who are afraid to put their foot down; usually have children step on their toes.
o There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.
o How you do anything is how you do everything.
o Use your smile to change the world, do not let the world change your smile.
o The temptation to quit is the greatest just before you are about to succeed.
o Gratefulness is the antidote to worry. Hopefulness is the cure for fear.
o A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contain it.
o To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
o It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.
o Defeat teaches us life’s most valuable lessons.
o When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills.
o Pottery and fine porcelain must not quarrel.
o A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
o When you want to test the depths of a stream, do not use both feet.
o Control your emotions or it will control you.
o Winning starts with beginning.
o Nothing fails like success.
o At the gambling table, there is no father and son.
o Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent – all must be tasted.
o If you must play, decide upon three things at the start – the rules of the game, the stakes and when to quit.
o When wrath speaks, wisdom veils her face.
o The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
o It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the fight in the dog.
o The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
o Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
o If you wanna fly, you should give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
o If my life is fruitless, it doesn’t matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn’t matter who criticises me. – John Bunyan
o No one can ever become poor by giving.
o A to B will get you somewhere but imagination will get you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
o The man who has no imagination, has no wings. – Muhammad Ali
o What you don’t sweat out when you’re young, will turn to tears when you are old.
o The bamboo that bends is more durable than the rock that resists it.
o In wealth, many friends. In poverty, not even relatives.
o Three things ruin people – drugs, liquor and leverage. – Charles Munger
o No illusions, no disappointments
o Being honest will not get you a lot of friends but it will get you the right ones.
o Price is what you pay, value is what you get. – Warren Buffett
o You don’t live once, you live multiple stages within one.
o The life you live is the legacy you leave behind.
o Too soon old, too late wise.
o Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. – Goethe
o He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. – Jim Elliot
o The time is right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King Jr.
o Great boast, small roast.
o Life is better if you are happy. But life is at its best when other people are happy because of you.
o Treat those who are famous like they are not, those who are not like they are.
A Helmeted Space Oddity and his captivating Book (above image).
Books are more than words on paper, they are portals to other places, other lives.
Kind Reminder – Dig your well before you are thirsty.
