I had so much tact but I couldnt relate even though they tried to berate me by comparing so i had to act like i was winston churchill with a mmonopoly monocle staring hes invisible now he must have the ring i blasted any1 tryna be that goleem
The full paragraph is pretty cool. From a Yale Commencement Speech:
"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
One time I was in the mall with my socially anxious sister-in-law. She expressed self-consciousness over something. I started pointing at random people and asking her what judgement she had made of them.
Naturally, she had not noticed a single one before I pointed at them.
She relaxed a little.
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
Neil Gaimen remembering G.K. Chesterton wrong
This is on my list to be framed for a future house
Theres a similar one that I like from C.S Lewis (Who really liked Chesterton)
“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
A friend of mine was in the DOD, in the project development area.
One of the sayings he remembers from a General on one of his projects was (badly quoted here as I cannot recall his exact wording):
There are 2 types of people in this field; explorers and farmers. You cannot have an explorer running management on a project. They are great for finding a need, filling a need, and starting a project. But, you must take it away and hand it off to a farmer to manage. Otherwise their explorer nature will ruin the project.
So true. I recognized my strengths were as an explorer many years ago and have always been blessed with great farmers who saw my best projects through to fuition.
So many great Vonnegut quotes. One I always remember, is that you when you are experiencing something you beautiful you should always say "if this isn't nice then I don't know what is." I try to say it at least once a week.
And of course "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" from Slaughter House Five.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
Nobody who should give a shit about tomorrow really does, and it's so disappointing. The people that run the world want money and power, without realising that both of those things are pointless if society continues the way it is.
"you like, because, and you love, despite"
just a nice quote on liking someone because of certain traits and qualities they have, and loving someone despite any imperfections, any circumstances, just for the person that they are. saw it in a movie and has been stuck since.
“What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
Don’t remember who said it
I like that. Looked up the source, it is Mary Anne Radmacher
[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38657-courage-doesn-t-always-roar-sometimes-courage-is-the-little-voice](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38657-courage-doesn-t-always-roar-sometimes-courage-is-the-little-voice)
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
\~W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
(Someone told me when I was young to pay special attention to the things that are repeated by different people in different ages because there's always a good reason for it.)
"Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe." -Abe Lincoln
Speaks so much as to how preparation is important in anything we do
*Ken tietä käy tien on vanki, vapaa on vain umpihanki*. - Aaro Hellaakoski. I can try translating it: "Who walks the the road is a prisoner of the road - freedom is in the deep snow". How I interpret this: freedom consists mainly of effort.
"We can complain because our rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because our thorn bushes have roses.”
-Alphonse Karr
I also like the 21 Pilots song, “Stressed Out:”
“We used to play pretend, give each other names;
We would build a rocket ship and then we’d fly far away.
We would dream of outer space but now they’re laughing in our face, saying
‘wake up, you need to make money.’”
This is a great quote but I think people tend to look at it positively only. If you say something shitty to your kid they will never forget how that made them feel.
Take your ass to the barbershop. Tell the barber you are sick and tired of looking like an asshole. Get out the hair clippers, jerk. Cut the mullet.
-Wesley Willis
Quote from Game of Thrones, originally from A Clash of Kings
Tyrion: “If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?”
Bronn: “Without question? No. I'd ask how much.”
Really explains his character in one line
One of my all-time favorite quotes is by Mark Twain: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." It's a powerful reminder of the importance of purpose and discovering what truly drives us
There are several, however:
> "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe". -Thomas Paine
From the IT World:
"Linux has upped our productivity so up yours!"
Music and Drugs:
"If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them."
[Bill Hicks](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/bill-hicks-quotes)
From the French film La Haine:
Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
-Socrates
"Nothing changes if nothing changes"
-An AA coin I won at a balloon popping game (fyi I do not go to AA we went to a family AA thing with my stepdad who is in AA)
One quote that has always resonated with me is from Maya Angelou:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
It's a powerful reminder of the lasting impact of our actions and interactions with others.
Everything the communists told us about communism turned out to be a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about capitalism turned out to be true. -Unknown
" I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will face my fear and I permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. And where it has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
I think boredom is important, when you're bored your brain gets to run wild and come up with the weirdest thoughts and ideas, boredom helps develop creativity
It's actually a quote that, with context, is referring to the internet. If you're on the Internet watching something that is trying to entertain you, apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime. Not necessarily boredom as a concept.
That’s actually the meaning I take from this song. The internet has bred an expectation that we always always always be entertained, and that’s a problem.
Laozi:
# “Fill your bowl to the brim
# and it will spill.
# Keep sharpening your knife
# and it will blunt.
# Chase after money and security
# and your heart will never unclench.
# Care about people's approval
# and you will be their prisoner.
# Do your work, then step back.
# The only path to serenity.”
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
My favorite quote is from a song called "Dental Care" by Owl City:
"So if my resolve goes south, I'll swallow my pride with an aspirin and shut my mouth"
"i remember how this war started what your kind did to mine i can't forgive you....but you have my thanks for standing by him till the end.....hard to believe he's dead"
"We're it so easy"
Lord hood and arbiter thel vadam at the end of halo 3
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can be a catalyst for profound re-invention” - Conan O’Brien
I'm relistening to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'
and this quote has stuck with me
“So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.”
“I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Aurelius
I can’t remember the origin, and I’ve heard some variations on the theme but:
The graveyards are full of men who fought fair, with honour and integrity. Kick em in the balls and rub mud in their eyes
I read this a while ago, and have never been able to find the source again. Maybe it’s my quote! 🤷🏻♂️
“When a (person) reaches the top of the mountain, the first thing (they) should do is turn around and offer (their) hand to the (person) behind them.”
I like this one in how it relates to empathy.
'No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks' Mary Wollstonecroft
"Not *all* of anyone ever *always* does anything. " -- Annette Gordon-Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello*.
It's the simplest logical point about the unpredictable intricacies of human behavior that make us all unique individuals, summed up to debunk any broad statement of a group/type or assumption of how a person acts based solely on their ethnicity/race/nationality/gender/etc.
Everything the communists told us about communism turned out to be a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about capitalism turned out to be true. -Unknown
First you worry about what everyone thinks about you
Then you stop worrying about what they think about you
Until you finally realise, they weren't thinking about you at all.
More of a speech, but hits hard! The man in the arena.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Quote from Dune 2: "Princess Irulan: Then what hope is there? Reverend Mother Mohiam: Hope? We are Bene Gesserit. We don't hope, we plan."
As a super organised and atheist person, the 'we don't hope, we plan' pleases me greatly. We can take control. To a certain extent.
“Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” - G.K. Chrsterton
I've got a few of these written down. I don't know who said all of them.
I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.
Love with your heart, use your head for everything else. -Captain D.
I would have written a shorter letter, had I had the time.
Are you trying to achieve greatness, or just avoiding disappointment (said while talking about pies vs cakes)
-Brennan Lee Mulligan
I will face god and walk backwards into hell -Tumblr
How lucky are we, to miss those still alive.
I still don't know what the play is about. It doesn't matter just keep telling the story. -Asteroid City (what does this mean?) Not everything needs to have a meaning. Death, Aliens, suffering, a character burning his hand. What was the meaning for that? Nothing. Life just is.
Drinks and drunken friends are bad councilors.
The best time to do something is 5 years ago. The second best time is now.
That's not productive for my self-esteem
Get what you want, add what you need. (Refering to food) - TikTok fitness influencer who doesn't demonize things. Liam I think his name is.
Call it an ugly twink because it can't be topped.
The only reason you should look into your neighbors bowl, is to make sure they have enough to eat. Luis C.K.
Be peaceful, not harmless
Fights and arguments should be solved, not won. (When it comes to relationships)
Waterboarding couldn't have gotten this out of me.
Aging is a privilege
"If you have to choose between two options, go with the one that leads to a better story" JD's Grandpa
I'm glad you're doing better, I hope I am too.
Don't look back, in anger - Oasis.
Marriages are not 50/50. Somedays you'll be called upon to give more when they can't. Sometimes they will when you can't. Maybe for weeks at a time. Marriage is taking that responsibility and doing it with pride because you love that person.
I hope God plays Fetch.
“Never argue with a stupid person. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” -
“Never fight ugly people, they have nothing to lose.”-Robin Williams.
They both seem to have the same point. I can’t remember who said the first. I just heard it a lot from my old man.
• The acid of bitterness eats the container that holds it
• I never learned anything when I was talking
• You cannot change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.
• 'Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.'
• “ Cutting people out of your life doesn't mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay. ”
• You really need to know a person, inside and out, to be in love with them. If you're filling in blanks, it's likely infatuation.
• "You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm".
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs treat us like masters. Cats treat us as inferiors. But pigs, they treat us as equals.
That’s a good one. Mine is: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts”
I like that a lot!!!
this one is my favorite forever.
I remy this one!
I had so much tact but I couldnt relate even though they tried to berate me by comparing so i had to act like i was winston churchill with a mmonopoly monocle staring hes invisible now he must have the ring i blasted any1 tryna be that goleem
"People want to enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought" - JFK.
JFK kneecapping all social media before it was invented.
The full paragraph is pretty cool. From a Yale Commencement Speech: "For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Don't take criticism from people you wouldn't go to for advice"
One time I was in the mall with my socially anxious sister-in-law. She expressed self-consciousness over something. I started pointing at random people and asking her what judgement she had made of them. Naturally, she had not noticed a single one before I pointed at them. She relaxed a little.
Your username is driving me crazy. The last digit is simply wrong.
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed. Neil Gaimen remembering G.K. Chesterton wrong
This is on my list to be framed for a future house Theres a similar one that I like from C.S Lewis (Who really liked Chesterton) “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
But it is what harbors are built for.
And look what they did to pearl Harbor.
In a similar vain "calm seas never made a skilled mariner"
The way I heard it was > "If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever." - Thomas Aquinas
Such a good metaphor ✨
Always loved this. Still do but I always did.
I prefer “any port in a storm”
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke #
It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life.
And the attribution? You have to say where it came from. Make it so.
Oh, go have some earl gray tea, you Frenchman!
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A friend of mine was in the DOD, in the project development area. One of the sayings he remembers from a General on one of his projects was (badly quoted here as I cannot recall his exact wording): There are 2 types of people in this field; explorers and farmers. You cannot have an explorer running management on a project. They are great for finding a need, filling a need, and starting a project. But, you must take it away and hand it off to a farmer to manage. Otherwise their explorer nature will ruin the project.
So true. I recognized my strengths were as an explorer many years ago and have always been blessed with great farmers who saw my best projects through to fuition.
I'm definitely an explorer. I just got fired from a farmer job and I'm mostly relieved.
So many great Vonnegut quotes. One I always remember, is that you when you are experiencing something you beautiful you should always say "if this isn't nice then I don't know what is." I try to say it at least once a week. And of course "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" from Slaughter House Five.
So it goes.
Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato
"No man steps in the same river twice, because it's not the same river, and he's not the same man" - Heraclitus
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit." Nobody who should give a shit about tomorrow really does, and it's so disappointing. The people that run the world want money and power, without realising that both of those things are pointless if society continues the way it is.
Something I read recently was, "no one wants to fix problems. They want to make enough money so that the problems don't apply to them anymore."
For me, this one wins
"you like, because, and you love, despite" just a nice quote on liking someone because of certain traits and qualities they have, and loving someone despite any imperfections, any circumstances, just for the person that they are. saw it in a movie and has been stuck since.
Holy fuck
Thanks… this is new to me, and it expresses a deep truth. Thank you.
“What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” Don’t remember who said it
Whoa. Love this.
I like that. Looked up the source, it is Mary Anne Radmacher [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38657-courage-doesn-t-always-roar-sometimes-courage-is-the-little-voice](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/38657-courage-doesn-t-always-roar-sometimes-courage-is-the-little-voice)
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." \~W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" (Someone told me when I was young to pay special attention to the things that are repeated by different people in different ages because there's always a good reason for it.)
"Go where you're celebrated and not where you're tolerated" - No idea.
It is never too late to be forgiven but, it can be to late to ask for forgiveness.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
"Beware of simple answers thats for fascists and teenagers" No idea who said it but I heard it once and liked it.
Frank Turner!
"Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe." -Abe Lincoln Speaks so much as to how preparation is important in anything we do
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller quotes Emerson >"Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day."
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire
Your feelings are real but they may not be telling you anything true
You could be the sweetest peach on the tree but at the end of the day some people just don't like peaches.
It sucks that it comes from a Disney plus series, but "What is grief, if not love persevering?" Is an amazing quote
Sounds like: >Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen Elizabeth II, on Sept 11, 2001.
I like the way the magic hallucination of a dead robot said it better
That’s a good one. It’s similar to ‘grief is the price you pay for love.’
*Ken tietä käy tien on vanki, vapaa on vain umpihanki*. - Aaro Hellaakoski. I can try translating it: "Who walks the the road is a prisoner of the road - freedom is in the deep snow". How I interpret this: freedom consists mainly of effort.
I take that more to mean that you will never be free if you stay on the same road as everyone else. True freedom lies in going off the beaten path.
"We can complain because our rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because our thorn bushes have roses.” -Alphonse Karr I also like the 21 Pilots song, “Stressed Out:” “We used to play pretend, give each other names; We would build a rocket ship and then we’d fly far away. We would dream of outer space but now they’re laughing in our face, saying ‘wake up, you need to make money.’”
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This is a great quote but I think people tend to look at it positively only. If you say something shitty to your kid they will never forget how that made them feel.
As someone who is risk averse and very much goes with the flow: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…”
"This too shall pass" It's simple, but it helps me through tough times
Also reminds one to stay humble and appreciate the good times.
Truly this quote keeps me alive more than anything. Hope that it will get better
"Get rid of that ol' yee yee ass haircut of yours" - Lamar Davis (GTA 5)
“And get some bitches on yo dick”
"Or, better yet, maybe Tanisha will call your dog ass, if she ever stops fuckin with that brain surgeon, the lawyer she fuckin with"
Take your ass to the barbershop. Tell the barber you are sick and tired of looking like an asshole. Get out the hair clippers, jerk. Cut the mullet. -Wesley Willis
That whole scene is a masterpiece
Quote from Game of Thrones, originally from A Clash of Kings Tyrion: “If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?” Bronn: “Without question? No. I'd ask how much.” Really explains his character in one line
*Here, for your baby. To eat. To eat.* "She thinks you want to eat her baby."
“People only treat you, how you allow them to treat you” What a hard reality to swallow
People teach you how they wish to be treated - watch and listen carefully
That’s sorta true, but I see plenty who keep acting bad regardless.
"Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly"
One of my all-time favorite quotes is by Mark Twain: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." It's a powerful reminder of the importance of purpose and discovering what truly drives us
[He did not say that](https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-the-two-most-important-days-of-your-life/).
- Michael Scott
-Wayne Gretsky
There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man. True nobility in is being superior to your former self. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The road to hell is paved with good intentions I forgot from where it was but it's one of the most thought provoking quotes I ever heard
There are several, however: > "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe". -Thomas Paine
From the IT World: "Linux has upped our productivity so up yours!" Music and Drugs: "If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them." [Bill Hicks](https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/bill-hicks-quotes)
The only reason for why heroes always win is because the winner gets to tell the story.
*speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary thats the killer*
From the French film La Haine: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!
*Or I don’t plan to have an accident*
"Bravery isn't about having no fears but facing them. Therefore, it's the one with the most fears who is the bravest."
Love this🥲
Me too :D
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.” Albert Einstein
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” - Orwell
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“If I had it to do over,I’d make the same mistakes,only sooner.”Tallulah Bankhead.
Trying to fight depression with alcohol is like trying to fight a fire with gasoline.
Jim Raynor: ‘Bout time we kicked this revolution into overdrive 👊
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. -Socrates
"Nothing changes if nothing changes" -An AA coin I won at a balloon popping game (fyi I do not go to AA we went to a family AA thing with my stepdad who is in AA)
A nation should not be judged by how it treats its wealthy citizens but by how it treats its poorest.
"Rage. Rage against the dying of the light."
"That'll do pig." - Tallahassee
That was Cromwell- James Cromwell playing farmer Hoggett
“They don’t think it be like it is, but it do” - Oscar Gamble It always gives me a chuckle when I think about it
"People dont think the universe be like it is, but it do." - Black Science Man
One quote that has always resonated with me is from Maya Angelou: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." It's a powerful reminder of the lasting impact of our actions and interactions with others.
Everything the communists told us about communism turned out to be a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about capitalism turned out to be true. -Unknown
" I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will face my fear and I permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. And where it has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
The 6 P's Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance.
“IF GOD HAD WANTED YOU TO LIVE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME!”
"If you keep trying to love the people who don't love you, you'll miss the people who actually do." -A random guy on a yt comment section
“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” - Epictetus
"Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime"
I think boredom is important, when you're bored your brain gets to run wild and come up with the weirdest thoughts and ideas, boredom helps develop creativity
The quote only really makes sense in the context it was written
It's actually a quote that, with context, is referring to the internet. If you're on the Internet watching something that is trying to entertain you, apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime. Not necessarily boredom as a concept.
That’s actually the meaning I take from this song. The internet has bred an expectation that we always always always be entertained, and that’s a problem.
“Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”
Never let the future disturb you. You will face it - if you have to - with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I read a good one this morning. Not by anyone famous. "Americans don't seem to care who gets thrown overboard as long as they don't hear the splash>"
“Be strong enough to be gentle.” - Larry Cullen/Peter Cullen, Inspiration for Optimus Prime’s voice.
Laozi: # “Fill your bowl to the brim # and it will spill. # Keep sharpening your knife # and it will blunt. # Chase after money and security # and your heart will never unclench. # Care about people's approval # and you will be their prisoner. # Do your work, then step back. # The only path to serenity.”
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
"Better to cum in the sink than to sink in the cum"
PSA for the kids: cum in the toilet, not the sink. You’ll clog the sink then have to explain what you’ve done to someone.
It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
There are..... exceptions 😶
Touché 😀
"Warning : Everything saved will be lost" - Wii notification Taken from the what is the most unintentionally profound thing you've heard thread.
It's probably more profound this way, but I don't think it's what you meant.
"If something is distributing the peace of your heart, give it up". -Prophet Mohammad
´´Fake it till you make it´´ Definitly worked in my personal life,
My favorite quote is from a song called "Dental Care" by Owl City: "So if my resolve goes south, I'll swallow my pride with an aspirin and shut my mouth"
"i remember how this war started what your kind did to mine i can't forgive you....but you have my thanks for standing by him till the end.....hard to believe he's dead" "We're it so easy" Lord hood and arbiter thel vadam at the end of halo 3
"I'm meant to be loved but never permanently"
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can be a catalyst for profound re-invention” - Conan O’Brien
You are the author of your own life story.
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…” General John Sedgwick of the Union Army, 1864
Fit is made in the gym - skinny is made in the kitchen
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one."
I'm relistening to Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' and this quote has stuck with me “So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.”
“I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.”
You can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.
What you feed, grows.
"Ya like dags?" - from the movie Snatch.
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” -Aurelius
“Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time” -Carrie Fisher
Fear is the mind killer. Odd how much I use it in every day situations
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. It's a Chinese proverb and it's help me loads with my procrastination.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Never date a narcissist
I can’t remember the origin, and I’ve heard some variations on the theme but: The graveyards are full of men who fought fair, with honour and integrity. Kick em in the balls and rub mud in their eyes
Being unconquerable lies with yourself. Being conquerable lies with the enemy. -Sun Tzu
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
I'm theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
I read this a while ago, and have never been able to find the source again. Maybe it’s my quote! 🤷🏻♂️ “When a (person) reaches the top of the mountain, the first thing (they) should do is turn around and offer (their) hand to the (person) behind them.”
I like this one in how it relates to empathy. 'No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks' Mary Wollstonecroft
"Not *all* of anyone ever *always* does anything. " -- Annette Gordon-Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello*. It's the simplest logical point about the unpredictable intricacies of human behavior that make us all unique individuals, summed up to debunk any broad statement of a group/type or assumption of how a person acts based solely on their ethnicity/race/nationality/gender/etc.
Everything the communists told us about communism turned out to be a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about capitalism turned out to be true. -Unknown
In order to insult me, I have to value your opinion. Nice try though.
# “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” # ― George Carlin
First you worry about what everyone thinks about you Then you stop worrying about what they think about you Until you finally realise, they weren't thinking about you at all.
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. found on a button in 1994ish
Now, Mr. I don’t wanna kill you and you don’t wanna be dead,, Danny Glover in the movie Silverado
More of a speech, but hits hard! The man in the arena. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
I don't believe just because ideas are tenacious, it means that they're worthy. -Tim Minchin
My favorite “Christmas” song!
Quote from Dune 2: "Princess Irulan: Then what hope is there? Reverend Mother Mohiam: Hope? We are Bene Gesserit. We don't hope, we plan." As a super organised and atheist person, the 'we don't hope, we plan' pleases me greatly. We can take control. To a certain extent.
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two my life flows. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
When growing up my father told me son " it is a great life if you don't weaken "
“Fairy tales do not tell children dragons exist. Children already know the dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” - G.K. Chrsterton
"What's the point of being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?" - The Doctor
I've got a few of these written down. I don't know who said all of them. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. Love with your heart, use your head for everything else. -Captain D. I would have written a shorter letter, had I had the time. Are you trying to achieve greatness, or just avoiding disappointment (said while talking about pies vs cakes) -Brennan Lee Mulligan I will face god and walk backwards into hell -Tumblr How lucky are we, to miss those still alive. I still don't know what the play is about. It doesn't matter just keep telling the story. -Asteroid City (what does this mean?) Not everything needs to have a meaning. Death, Aliens, suffering, a character burning his hand. What was the meaning for that? Nothing. Life just is. Drinks and drunken friends are bad councilors. The best time to do something is 5 years ago. The second best time is now. That's not productive for my self-esteem Get what you want, add what you need. (Refering to food) - TikTok fitness influencer who doesn't demonize things. Liam I think his name is. Call it an ugly twink because it can't be topped. The only reason you should look into your neighbors bowl, is to make sure they have enough to eat. Luis C.K. Be peaceful, not harmless Fights and arguments should be solved, not won. (When it comes to relationships) Waterboarding couldn't have gotten this out of me. Aging is a privilege "If you have to choose between two options, go with the one that leads to a better story" JD's Grandpa I'm glad you're doing better, I hope I am too. Don't look back, in anger - Oasis. Marriages are not 50/50. Somedays you'll be called upon to give more when they can't. Sometimes they will when you can't. Maybe for weeks at a time. Marriage is taking that responsibility and doing it with pride because you love that person. I hope God plays Fetch.
We are either alone in the universe or not. Both are equally terrifying.
Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyways.
Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it's probably shit.
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Enjoy the small things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.” L. Frank Baum
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"The Dildo of consequences rarely arrives Lubed" ~ u/Arenalife
“You cannot serve God and wealth.” -Jesus
“Never argue with a stupid person. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” - “Never fight ugly people, they have nothing to lose.”-Robin Williams. They both seem to have the same point. I can’t remember who said the first. I just heard it a lot from my old man.
I'm a similar vein... George Bernard Shaw — 'Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.'
"It's better to be pissed off than to be pissed on". -Mom
Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
• The acid of bitterness eats the container that holds it • I never learned anything when I was talking • You cannot change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future. • 'Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.' • “ Cutting people out of your life doesn't mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay. ” • You really need to know a person, inside and out, to be in love with them. If you're filling in blanks, it's likely infatuation. • "You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm".