This is a quote from song "Just the two of us" by Grover Washington Jr. [...]No time for tears Wasted water's all that is And it don't make no flowers grow[...] To me it just shows how useless stress, tears, sadness is. It's not doing nothing good to us. Same with anger and other negative emotions. No progress, not making us better.
'If part of the solution isn't ending the polution, I wanna welcome you to scatman's world' -Scatman john's Scatman World
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts" "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury" "It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed" /Marcus Aurelius)
Long but very relevant here, BTW this is the book the movie Arrival (2016) is based on: “Think of cocaine. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. That's when it becomes addictive. Beauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks. Biologists call this "supernormal stimulus" [...] Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle; we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime. And the result is that beauty is slowly ruining our lives. How? The way any drug becomes a problem: by interfering with our relationships with other people. We become dissatisfied with the way ordinary people look because they can't compare to supermodels.” ― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Do not be limited by what others expect of you, but reach confidently for the stars. —Shirley Ann Jackson
”If you do not choose actions that are in your own best interest, you will stop yourself from living your dream.” - Will Smith
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. —Barbara McClintock