If all that passes for love were indeed love, there would not be so much hatred amidst us.
Why do people crave for politics, cinema and sports? Because the rewards can be mind bogglingly high.
Violence did, does and likely will have a role. But all forms of mindless, target-less, disproportionate violence is against civility and is counter productive.
It’s human to fear isolation for your convictions. But remember that every so often a single Galileo or Darwin had truth on the whole planet.
Wise people don’t spread unhappiness. Wiser still proactively work to spread happiness in this world.
Success: The fruitful confluence of favourable circumstances.
Unifiers like Lincoln, Gandhi, Mandela unite people and leave a more harmonious world behind than the one they inherited. Polarizers, like Hitler, are apt to leave fractured humanity as their devisive legacy.
Prohibition is good. For others.
Television: The hermit’s window to the world.
Standing upright in all adversities? Wouldn’t one drown in the river, for instance?