Flaws Are What Makes People Most Interesting

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/We worship the ideal, but we idolize the flawed. If you were not convinced, how many examples must I give to convince you? How many flawed religious leaders have been followed by countless masses in the name of the ideal religion? Why are tabloid shows, sites, and newspapers magnifying, or sometimes inventing, flaws of people so popular? Why aren’t products which are true opposite to tabloids successful? Would ideal beings have any sort of compelling story on their own given they have no flaw to deal with or overcome, and were only interesting due to the flawed people around them? What would the religious saviours’ stories be without the flawed humans around them to improve? Are ideal beings even human enough in their nature to fairly expect humans to relate to them, given our humanity trademark is our imperfection?

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Fame Will Make Everything About A Person More Interesting

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/Think of some famous people you know, and some things recently publicized about them in the news. Would people care as nearly much if it were you instead of those famous people in those stories? I’m assuming you’re not famous in asking that, not anticipating many commoners would ever be reading this book, never mind celebrities.

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You Are The Greatest Puzzle You Will Ever Know

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/You know more about yourself than you know about anyone else. You might know more about yourself than you know about everyone else put together. But how well do you know yourself, rather than know about yourself? That is, how well do you understand yourself rather than just know facts and details about yourself, why you are who you are and why you do the things you do, rather than just what you are and what do you tend to do? The former, most will probably find much more challenging to articulate, despite a lot of information available to the latter that is like data to support the former, but that may be difficult to interpret to articulate the former.

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If You Were Going To Be An Open Book, Be A Mystery

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/There’s an English expression about people being an open book, meaning it is easy to know what they are thinking and feeling, and implying they are easy to get to know. Do you tend to find those people interesting as there’s so much to know about them, or uninteresting as there’s not much left to discover about them? Can someone be both? Interesting despite not much left to find out about them? I think so, if they were open, but still mysterious in their nature, metaphorically like in an unassembled puzzle or book which’s words you can read fully but which may not mean all that much to you together.

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Many Things Are Best Said With a Closed Mouth

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/How many idioms or proverbs can you recite about being careful to say certain things, or not saying anything at all? For example, if you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all, or any of 21 examples just from the Biblical book of Proverbs.

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