These thought proverbs, anti-proverbs and axiomatic truths were created by Randy Hasper.
A good proverb is like a good foot-bridge troll, short-statured, sturdy and armed with a vicious bite.
To heal — feel.
No one gets well alone.
The first step toward healing is to make a choice.
We never heal; we ever harm.
Reel, deal zeal, heal.
Life is a harm and a healing.
Talk is curative, squawk quite superlative.
To recover from your enemies wish them immeasurable happiness.
The zenith is personal, healing conversional.
Healing is the unique realm of the ravaged, the resilient and the resourced.
Hearts need assurances; minds need occurrences.
Souls whirred must be assured.
Humans are fragile; bacteria are agile.
Not-sure needs the talking cure.
It reoccurs a word assures.
Haute couture will eyes assure, as will demure.
The insecure heart needs a leading part.
To test is best.
Awards assure — much like manure.
The brave entrepreneur is ever semi-sure.
Every mope is fueled by hope.
A good pout has political clout.
Sulkers are pokers.
Good doubters make good pouters.
A steady optimism is best maintained by an occasional sulk.
Lucky exults; lost sulks.
At the center of every good sulk lies a core of hope.
Expectancy is the mother of dejectancy.
Morose may pack a lethal dose.
The silent treatment — it’s excrement.
Sulking is risky; it can lead to skulking which can lead to jail time.
Demagoguery has a steep topography.
A few words and a rose and a million bulldozed.
The demos are demoed, dispatched and dememoed.
Loot can buy a fancy suit; a roll can buy a Capitol.
Being sly can get you selected; a lie can get you elected.
A demagogue hates an epilogue.
A demon finds a home in a demagogue.
The electoholic are hyperbolic.
A lie is hypoxic, the truth is detoxic.
The demagogue speaks; the populace weeps.
At the edge of the ocean we find ourselves at home.
Great stars rule the sky; small dots the human eye.
Build a guest room inside yourself; make it large.
We crave what is big because we are so small.
Big may fetter better.
Less is more — more or less.
Insecure hearts demand leading parts.
Excess dons sad, enough puts on plaid.
Lots of stuff; less of us.
Social boutique — each one unique.
Tear down castles; from the rubble build bridges.
The weakest keep requires the longest leap.
A castle protects; a portcullis respects.
Castles are proof; history goes poof.
Trebuchets are always good bets.
Castles prevent conversations.
Honor a castle; honor a hassle.
Tattlements are battlements.
Boil oil, hitch pitch.
Boat the moat.
Be we.
Me and thee make we.
Yea, yo, yes we — not me.
At my core is a group; at my center is a crowd.
A constant me, me, me is social nepenthe.
Free is me not judging thee.
To be or not to be me; that is the best fun.
Autonomy is the illusion of no family tree.
My me bests my he.
To every me, me, me refuse to bow the knee.
Keep a secret; betray a “Quiet!”
Secrets protect; lies infect.
Keep secrets, not from yourself.
A secret ambition, a cruel oblivion.
Jealousy, an unsolved felony.
Many opennesses; a few secrets.
Fear two things: an injured envy, a cracking levee.
An arcane brain borders insane.
A secret is a privilege; betrayal a blind sacrilege.
Be you; no less.
Unperson; you’ll worsen.
Sync with yourself.
Que; not you.
A position is smaller than a person.
A sermon is a tedium, a person an Elysium.
Personages monologue; persons dialogue.
Self is a swiftly moving mark.
Roles dissolve; persons evolve.
Personages harbor persons.
Nothing in excess; some things not at all.
Excess; regress.
Gaining is losing.
Stuff your garage; waste your wealth.
There’s very little brotherly in one-thing-and-anothery.
Increasaboys neglect the joys.
Supplementors deign; eliminators gain.
The expandimonger isn’t stronger.
Material redundancy; spiritual defundity.
Addition is an affliction; one-more-thing is an addiction.
Opinions are minions.
Opinions rip on reason’s tip.
Opinions of a feather flock together.
One mind’s thought is another mind’s rot.
Opinions are what other people have.
Your thoughts inadmissible; mine are undismissable.
Opinion is a giddy thing; it sprouts in winter, dies in spring.
We remember our opinions but forget their reasons.
Rationality surfaces in the shallow waters of weak opinion.
One’s better is another’s bitter.
Better takes busy.
Best is battered — still charging.
Better is good.
It’s really better, good, best.
Better terror than fetter.
Better plenty’s jollity than envy’s suavity.
Better odds and ends with friends than ten Mercedes Benz.
Better a nagging spouse than an empty house.
Smelt shame; forge an abuser.
Low self-worth is a Petri dish; in it abuse is populated.
Silence misuses; verbosity abuses.
Abstruse, aloof, obtuse — abuse.
The abused abuse.
Jealousy is obtuse; envy leads to abuse.
Abused-abuse is no excuse.
End self-centeredness; stop abuse.
War; mass abuse.
To become powerful without abusing someone is a rare act of sheer genius.
Styly is wily.
The styler is the beguiler.
Lookism; snookism.
Style runs single file.
Toss the book; pick a look.
Authenticity invented a style; undifferentiated copied it.
A style win begins within.
The artful smile is a style.
Style smiles; candor beguiles.
Styles create brands; brands perpetuate styles.
Standard is found in the mall; style is found in the soul.
Messes have tresses, suits, ties and fine dresses.
Behind every policy is a roiling frivolity.
Messes are liminal, hard lines tend toward criminal.
Every mess needs a sturdy “Yes.”
A mess inspired civilization; a mess will mend it.
A quest is found within a mess.
A wreck loves a renewal.
Visionaries are best at fixing mess.
We are nothing less than glorious mess.
At the eye of jealousy’s storm is a deadly calm; at the periphery thrives chaos.
Push hard; soothe harder.
Smooth soothes.
Truth soothes bad news.
Good choices bring soft voices.
Create beautiful spaces; go rest in them.
Being in the groove soothes.
Safe soothes savaged.
Sooth others with the salve that remedies yourself.
Soothe yourself with a mountain; completely comfort yourself with a river.
A medicine soothes; a creature comforts.
It’s over when the referee says it’s over.
If you can’t outplay them outplan them.
Failure is success and success is someone’s failure too.
Keep swimming, occasionally change directions.
Break down; brake records.
It’s not the size of your heart that matters; it’s your cholesterol levels.
Run when you can; crawl when you can’t; drag your sorry corpse a little further when you must.
Missed shots miss twice: they miss the goal and they miss the potential that existed within another pass.
Don’t accept any gold medals made out of body parts.
Losing is a branch of learning.
Sport was created for people with a high capacity for failure.
It’s not whether you get knocked down that counts; it’s whether you get concussion checked afterwards.
The meek submit a second cheek.
Boom’s a tomb.
Bellicosity, stupidosity.
Ungentle is mental.
If slapped, yap; don’t smack back.
Peaceful are the peacemakers.
The violent bear it away; the gentle bring it back.
Abhor war; adore peace more.
Reason is no friend of violence.
Violence didn’t originate in a standing army; it combusted out of a smoldering heart.
Good rules should never be upended; they may be suspended.
Suspend a goal; pay a toll.
Love suspends all ends.
Suspend all hate; unlock the gate.
Belief is curved, suspended within bias.
Life strums an A; death hammers an A2.
Man is a suspended thing.
We all hang out between what we know and what we will know.
We are suspended from the school of anxiety by the authority of our own gentleness.
Truth is suspended between roles, wisdom between poles.
Ignite; excite.
Invite range; excite change.
Like what is; love what will be.
Life is the exciting blind date we marry.
Write; excite.
New excites; old calms.
The mind a veld; ideas are big game.
Anticipation is the better part of amor.
Excitement; ignitement.
Research is sex.
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