The View From My Window: Life's Lessons
Darren Stansbury
June 02, 2005
(This is another collection of my personal wisdom or, as I jokingly call it, wiz dumb. I called the previous collection "The View From My Window: What Life Has Taught Me." However, I've now chosen what I think is a better title.)
It's unhealthy and counterproductive to be too cynical. Like a screen door you want to let the sunlight in and keep the bugs out.
An all-perfect God created this imperfect world and the not nearly perfect Satan.
If you want someone to get lost, loan him money.
When you have no vision and no imagination, stability can become stagnation.
Comfort from familiarity can be deceiving.
Be loving and you will be loved.
Being hated by hateful people is validating.
The flesh heals faster than the spirit.
If crime doesn't pay why do so many people choose it as a career?
A plant in a box has no room to grow.
I've thought of a lot of ways to make money. Unfortunately, they cost too much darn money.
If I were paid to be around lousy people I wouldn't need to work for a living.
Lousy people are not that way all the time. They have to sleep some of the time.
Graves around the world are filled with people who thought it couldn't happen to them.
Anyone who thinks he is sinless is committing a sin.
If you let everyone lead you you'll never get anywhere.
The person who first said that a man is not the sum of his possessions was jealous of a man who had everything.
If I was paid for each time I wasn't paid I'd be rich.
Being different for the sake of being different is a waste of creative talent.
So many people who consider themselves nonconformists are just conformists in their nonconformity. They think imitating other like-minded "nonconformists" somehow makes them nonconformists.
Self-pity is acceptable as long as you keep it to yourself.
Moving forward is progress only when you're headed in the right direction.
More people are negative than positive because being negative requires less effort.
"Better off" and "better" are not synonymous.
For your life to change you have to change.
Many times error is the mother of creation.
Masculine confidence is an aphrodisiac to many women. What attracts many women to jerks is the swagger, cockiness, edge or, if you will, swerve that jerks usually display and the charge the women get from being with such men. The difference in jerks and nice guys is comparable to that of performance cars and safe, reliable economy cars. The performance cars get less mileage and need more maintenance than the economy rides. However, they provide more chills and thrills than the economy cars. Most of these women opt for the economy cars when they realize the performance cars also have bad brakes.
Many people have achieved impossible feats because either no one told them they were impossible or they didn't believe those who had.
If a man thinks a woman is too good for him, she is.
Dead is the plant that does not bend in the wind.
The gift matters more than its packaging.
If it's a good idea chances are someone else has thought of it. The same goes for bad ideas.
A relationship based on sex is like junk food. It provides pleasure and no benefits and can be harmful.
When the body takes in more calories than it burns the excess calories just go to waist.
Many intelligent people are simply idiots who can eloquently express their ignorance.
It is best when describing people within specific but diverse groups to do so in general terms without generalizing them.
The person who falls has two choices: stay down or get up.
Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is easier when you have boots.
Those who say that God is female might prefer that Adam and Eve had been named instead Madam and Steve.
When it rains positive people know the sunlight will return, if not today, then tomorrow. Negative people curse the rain and forget there ever was sunlight.
No one can make you feel worthless without your permission.
It's unhealthy and counterproductive to be too cynical. Like a screen door you want to let the sunlight in and keep the bugs out.
An all-perfect God created this imperfect world and the not nearly perfect Satan.
If you want someone to get lost, loan him money.
When you have no vision and no imagination, stability can become stagnation.
Comfort from familiarity can be deceiving.
Be loving and you will be loved.
Being hated by hateful people is validating.
The flesh heals faster than the spirit.
If crime doesn't pay why do so many people choose it as a career?
A plant in a box has no room to grow.
I've thought of a lot of ways to make money. Unfortunately, they cost too much darn money.
If I were paid to be around lousy people I wouldn't need to work for a living.
Lousy people are not that way all the time. They have to sleep some of the time.
Graves around the world are filled with people who thought it couldn't happen to them.
Anyone who thinks he is sinless is committing a sin.
If you let everyone lead you you'll never get anywhere.
The person who first said that a man is not the sum of his possessions was jealous of a man who had everything.
If I was paid for each time I wasn't paid I'd be rich.
Being different for the sake of being different is a waste of creative talent.
So many people who consider themselves nonconformists are just conformists in their nonconformity. They think imitating other like-minded "nonconformists" somehow makes them nonconformists.
Self-pity is acceptable as long as you keep it to yourself.
Moving forward is progress only when you're headed in the right direction.
More people are negative than positive because being negative requires less effort.
"Better off" and "better" are not synonymous.
For your life to change you have to change.
Many times error is the mother of creation.
Masculine confidence is an aphrodisiac to many women. What attracts many women to jerks is the swagger, cockiness, edge or, if you will, swerve that jerks usually display and the charge the women get from being with such men. The difference in jerks and nice guys is comparable to that of performance cars and safe, reliable economy cars. The performance cars get less mileage and need more maintenance than the economy rides. However, they provide more chills and thrills than the economy cars. Most of these women opt for the economy cars when they realize the performance cars also have bad brakes.
Many people have achieved impossible feats because either no one told them they were impossible or they didn't believe those who had.
If a man thinks a woman is too good for him, she is.
Dead is the plant that does not bend in the wind.
The gift matters more than its packaging.
If it's a good idea chances are someone else has thought of it. The same goes for bad ideas.
A relationship based on sex is like junk food. It provides pleasure and no benefits and can be harmful.
When the body takes in more calories than it burns the excess calories just go to waist.
Many intelligent people are simply idiots who can eloquently express their ignorance.
It is best when describing people within specific but diverse groups to do so in general terms without generalizing them.
The person who falls has two choices: stay down or get up.
Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is easier when you have boots.
Those who say that God is female might prefer that Adam and Eve had been named instead Madam and Steve.
When it rains positive people know the sunlight will return, if not today, then tomorrow. Negative people curse the rain and forget there ever was sunlight.
No one can make you feel worthless without your permission.
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