An advertisement-free blog about motorcycling, Northern life, home improvement, power plants, submarines, nuclear stuff, and a few other off-beat subjects. Comments are welcome. (Image is the Selway Crags in Northern Idaho)
"When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: 'Is a world without shamelessness possible?' No.
Then don't ask the impossible.
There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them.
The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect.
Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members". - Marcus Aurelius
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own.
For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day.
Thus do we fear more what our neighbors will think of us, than what we ourselves." - Marcus Aurelius
"You always have the option of having no opinion.
There is never any need to get worked up or trouble your soul about things you can't control
These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." - Marcus Aurelius
"Anyone can build a bridge that will stay up. But it takes an engineer to build a cheap bridge that just barely stays up." - Unknown
"Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief." - Epictetus
