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Read me having conversations with myself with questions I actually want to answer. The more you know yourself, the more interesting you become to others.

Questions I Always Want To Answer: Part 1

Posted on April 24, 2023October 31, 2024 by Ari Johnson

Where does your super awesome and unique-sounding name come from? When my mom was pregnant with me she read the book Exodus by Leon Uris (not the one in the Bible although that one is also very good.) Out of all the characters in the book, one of them stood out to her. The character…

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

“Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them — that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

“I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.”

“‘Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.‘”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

“All things great are wound up with all things little.”

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?"

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”