217.We think of things which we believe and do not believe.
218.Reality is as normal or ludicrous as the events which shape it.
219.Keeping ourselves alert is the easiest, most natural and challenging thing
to attempt.
220.Seeing the sane and farcical keep our sanity.
Being able to tell the difference assures us of our sanity.
221.Wishing for the worst for others bares the worst in us.
222.To commit ourselves truly, it is best that we make as few pledges as
possible.
223.We mostly refrain from requesting assistance because of pride, taciturn
nature ,fear or over confidence .
224.Pride is forgotten when one is threatened or desperate.
225.When inspiring thoughts leave us , we lose the fervour. We are left with
tokens of achievement and the longing to achieve more.
226.Reverberating thoughts impede or propel.
227.Results are produced through depletion of renewable and non renewable
resources.
228.We are spent or revitalised when we give or derive.
229.We are all tied to strings of some sort. Some strings are longer, firmer
and more essential than some others.
230.Discretion is found in those with many priorities or in those who
understand subtleties of human ways.
231.An act of disregard can set the stage for a succession of similar misdeeds
because those in a position to rectify chose not to commit and instead
conformed to the state.
234.Praise emboldens, inflates or reddens the cheeks.
233.Relationships are equal and unequal.
234.A question does not necessarily beget an answer.
235.We are noted for
...being in and out of prominence
...our potential to be in or out of prominence
236.We are elated that others understand us. We are uneasy because others
comprehend us.
237.The reluctant will not. The reckless will. The rational evaluate.
238.A disguise is a state contrary to the actual or natural state.
239.It is next to impossible trying to assist those who are unwilling to be
assisted.
240.Do not venture beyond one?s accustomed depths for the sake of
answering a childish challenge.
241.There is ceremony for both our physical advent and departure.
242.Attempts themselves do not manifest righteousness.
243.If we allot too much leeway for others in the running of our lives, we
might not get to know ourselves or its potential.
244.We cannot survive solely in the realm of the past, however grand, for the
rest of our existence.
245.Awareness come not only from work of others but from our own
observation as well.
246.Sanity should not be confused with conformity.
247.A philosopher is one who roams through the wilderness of specifics in
order to derive compact and representative generalisations .
248.The fire within heats us to action or burns us to oblivion.
249.Desperation heeds not reason, decorum or consent.
250.We criticise others well and convincingly. Can we do the same for
ourselves or will it take another to see the cracks on our crystal ?
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