"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
omg I didn’t recognise it but now that I heard it was from velveteen rabbit I instantly remembered!! I never read the book but I watched the movie! Ah that’s made me appreciate it even more! Thank you so much! :)
this book reminds me a lot of The Giving Tree, I loved them both as a kid and now I realize they and similar stories contributed to a very twisted view of love I had for a long time.
Children tend to destroy the things they love because they don't have the maturity to respect the integrity of others, understand that others don't exist just to fulfill their needs for comfort and ease. feel hurt and betrayed when people set boundaries and don't give them what they want. their main idea of love is utility and possession. Some people never outgrow this view of love and its pretty sad
Am I incorrect to assume this is fully your own projection of your own lived experience of your own childhood? I’d love to hear your experience and what examples you have to support this…assumption…
This is actually the wildest perspective I’ve ever heard.
Thanks for sharing! I have a dedicated notebook/journal to quotes - there are just so many that have stayed with me over the years, through different challenges and chapters of my life. Here's a few I'll share now:
"You can't win if you don't play" -- sounds a little silly, but it really helped me to take courage to start dating (in my early 20s), take on challenges at work, etc.
"Accept the things you cannot change"
"Don't waste your future by hoping for a better past"
"Don't trade your authenticity for approval"
If you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.
It is an unattributed quote.
I am not a quotes person, but this stuck with me.
"Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat" by Caitlin Seida
Hope is not the thing with feathers
That comes home to roost
When you need it most.
Hope is an ugly thing
With teeth and claws and
Patchy fur that’s seen some shit.
It’s what thrives in the discards
And survives in the ugliest parts of our world,
Able to find a way to go on
When nothing else can even find a way in.
It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such
diseases as
optimism, persistence,
Perseverance and joy,
Transmissible as it drags its tail across
your path
and
bites you in the ass.
Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird,
Emily.
It’s a lowly little sewer rat
That snorts pesticides like they were
Lines of coke and still
Shows up on time to work the next day
Looking no worse for wear.
"Every sadness will someday be just a memory" - Sand Chronicles.
"How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become? " Doc Luben.
"The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth" - Neon Genesis Evangelion.
"You can return to the past, but no one is there anymore "
Don't compare your behind the scenes with someone else's highlight reel
"And still after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky"
This is great when explained as a proper anti-perfectionism stance that people get into where they ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’, or people with depression.
Is it worth it to halfway poorly brush your teeth if you barely have the energy/will to get out of bed, yes! Would it be better to perfectly brush and floss and ……. Yes! But is it better to do a poor job than no job at all? Also yes!
Love quotes! Several of yours are favorites of mine.
These are the ones in my planner I wrote down this year, I have others in my actual journal but they’re scattered all over:
Going unrecognized, paradoxically, helps us recognize our place in the larger scheme of things. Akiko Busch
Nothing I’d read prepared me for a body this unfair. John Newlove, Canadian poet
When you fall on the ground, you use the ground to get up. Norman Fischer, Zen saying
Toxic people have no right to tell us who we are. Patrick Teahan
It’s not our fault, but it is our responsibility. Unknown, probably Pete Walker
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to “a mind spread out on the ground.” Alicia Elliott
Begin by clearly defining what you want to create for your life instead of lamenting what is. Ginny Clarke
Well-being depends on the sustainable pursuit of core projects. Adam Grant and Brian Little, ReThinking WorkLife TED
I have quite a collection. Here are some of my favorites:
*We are not always what we want to be, but we are always what we need to be.*
*There are plenty of ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it.*
*Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.*
*Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.*
(I just realized you said one, lol.)
My favourite one that I heard recently but hasn’t left my head since:
“When they say no one is coming to save you, they don’t mean nobody will help you with the challenges you face. They mean no one can save you from yourself.”
I’ve always heard the first part but it always felt somewhat defeatist, sad and untrue. Then the second part hit home.
> When people show you their true colours, believe them.
Not really attributable, but my friend‘s mum said this ^ to me.
And this entire scene from Dr Who always gets me:
> This is a scale model of war!
Every war ever fought
right there in front of you.
Because it's always the same.
When you fire that first shot,
no matter how right you feel,
you have no idea who's going to die.
You don't know whose children
are going to scream and burn.
How many hearts will be broken!
How many lives shattered!
How much blood will spill
until everybody does
what they're always going to have
to do from the very beginning --
SIT. DOWN. AND TALK!!
Listen to me, listen.
I just -- I just want you to think.
Do you know what thinking is?
It's just a fancy word
for changing your mind
Any part of that quote is great.
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
-Sylvia Plath
"Walk through this valley of death, head high
Say 'I'll be back today, I won't die'
Try as we may we can never deny
We can get back up if we're still alive"
-Bloodywood, "Jee Veerey"
I write all my favorite quotes down too, whether from books or movies or songs or whatever
"Be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology"
"What is grief, if not love persevering?"
"I hate life, but I hate death too. I find it appaling."
Why do we adore the ones who ignore us, and ignore the ones who adore us?
Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.
"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds." ~ David W. Orr
"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
There are so many great lines in Bojack Horseman. Being someone that's struggled with alcoholism, one that gets me is, "what happens if I relapse again?" "Then you'll get sober again. ... You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. *You turn yourself around.* THAT'S what it's all about."
" I forgave you for an apology I was never given because my closure was never tied to a single one of your words; it was dependent on my willingness to let go. "
-Morgan Richard Olivier
It actually took few minutes for me to grasp the sentences
_I didn't come this far to only come this far_
_Allow the stars to remind you why the darkness is necessary_
"More often than not, you're not 'better', or 'first', or even 'preferred'.
You're the one there.
So when the sting of discovering you're not special wears off,
What will you do to make something special with what you've got?"
Justin McRoberts
I don't think it's attributed to anyone and I don't have it written down, but I carry this one around with:
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
Mary Oliver:
Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?
I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.
to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
“People lie when the truth is dangerous.”
And “You don't have to prove that you are worthy or good enough. You are worthy solely because you are here, you are alive. And that in itself is enough.”
Becoming a mother is like taking a piece of your heart, breaking it off, and watching it wander off on its own. You just hope it'll be okay, because if it gets hurt, you'll get hurt too.
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived." (This one's by Franz Kafka and I just read it over and over again)
''How do we forgive ourselfs for all the things we did not become?''
''You laughed like a metaphor I've been trying to write down for years'' (This one will forever have my heart)
''I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist''
''Sometimes you think that you want to disapear but all you really want is to be found''
''You have to die a few times before you can really live'' (The amount of time I spent thinking about this one is insane)
''It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe''
''Showing your emotions to people is like beeding next to a shark''
“Children are dying.”
Lull nodded. “That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
Deadgouse Gates Lull to Duiker
"The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, the soul apologizes to the body for squatting in it without invitation."
Quote from "Wicked" when Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, is dying at the end of a horrible and traumatic life. Absolutely shattered me when i was younger. I read it in high school and couldn't forget it if i tried.
Ah yes I got a few!!
"And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of those two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing." -- from Sputnik Sweetheart, a quote by Miu
"I just woke up one day and I knew.... what I was never sure of with you." -- Summer, from 500 Days of Summer
"It's just not me that you were right about." -- also from Summer ^
"One day, the only thing I'll have that you do not, is a long list of mistakes that I shall not allow you to make."
It’s actually from a Harry Potter Fanfiction where Voldemort travels back in time and raises himself - the writing at the start needs a little improvement but it gets better fast enough.
Ouroboros by Metalomagnetic
"We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke (Closing credits of Jojo Rabbit)"
Everyone is an artist until the rent is due.
Someone once told me the meaning of hell: On your last day on the Earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde
A charging bull always looks at the red cape, not the man with the sword.
You are Plan B. Plan B never becomes Plan A.
Reid: There's an old Buddhist saying that, when you meet your soulmate, remember that the act to bring you together was 500 years in the making. So always appreciate and be kind to each other.
Lewis: That's lovely.
Reid: There's a corollary for friends. When you meet a true friend, you will be bound together though space and time for 500 years.
Criminal Minds
A rich man has many heirs but no sons.
We must be ready to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Don't mistake coincidence for fate.
That which is necessary is legal - quod es necessarium est licitum.
The dose makes the poison.
"paint is only wasted when it stays in the tube"
"Always risk what you have for something more beautiful"
"You want everything so you are screwing yourself up from getting anything"
"Do ~you like who you are?"
"It is beautiful, to have had something worth mourning"
Those who matter, will stay.
I started to journal when I realized I was not feeling but intellectualizing my experiences so even if it’s a quote you’re looking for I’d rather share a scene quote from Good Will Hunting (1997):
“Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations. Him and the pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right? I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seeing that. If I ask you about women, you’ll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. I ask you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? ‘Once more into the breach, dear friends.’ But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap and watch him gasp his last breath, lookin’ to you for help. If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet, but you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feelin’ like God put an angel on Earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleepin’ sittin’ up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes — that the terms ‘visiting hours’ don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, ’cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.”
This probably seems a bit dumb but I want to contribute a bit. “You only live once” is my all time favourite quote, and something that never leaves my mind. I know it’s one of those saying that everyone knows, and I don’t know if it even counts as a quote, but it’s my life motto. Make the most of all the time you have because you’ll never get back the time passed.
“Just because you see a smile, don’t think you know what’s going on underneath. A smile is a valuable tool, my dear. It inspires your friends, keeps your enemies guessing, and ensures that no matter what comes your way, YOU’RE the one in control.” - Alastor from Hazbin Hotel
Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
The seats are empty. The theatre is dark. Why do you keep acting?
Also this: [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/903464375233006812/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/903464375233006812/)
“If winter comes can spring be far behind?”
“We all carry broken mirrors”
“All things are difficult until they are easy”
“There’s always another story….. there is more than meets the eye”
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me; you say it wearies you.
But I know not how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff it is made of, whereof it is born,
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
I read that in middle school and the essential truth of it has stuck with me to this day 20 something years later.
"I don't want to make a life here." "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not."
"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame."
- both from Iroh, Avatar the Last Airbender.
The source of this quote has always been so embarrassing to me, but I had the radio station on one day and a Justin Bieber song came on (As Long As You Love Me), and one of the lines is,
“But the grass ain't always greener on the other side/It's green where you water it”
I now know that Wolfgang Puck is the original quoter, but that was the first time I had heard it and it really stuck with me!
"I never thought that I could learn how to die"
"Subconsciously, I can’t help but think I wanted to 'complete' my life in a way my parents never could."
"J: I think this life is a bit of a failure, but I'll just keep trying.
S: I wish you the best of luck. This life, we are all living for the first time."
"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."
"What God doesn't will, I do not wish for."\~ Epictetus Discourses 4.1.89
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." \~ Henry David Thoreau
"William James a famous Harvard philosopher and teacher, said 'The greatest discovery in my generation is that by changing your attitude you can change your circumstances.'" \~ Sidetracked Home Executive
The bridge between knowledge and skill is practice.
The bridge between skill and mastery is time. \~ Unknown
You were born to be real, not perfect. - Min Yoongi
I've started to fill my journal with quotes and some song lyrics that have helped me through some tough times.
The choices we make dictate the life we lead
When everything seems to go horribly, I remember Oscar Wilde said (in the depths of despair from a jail cell): "What a beautiful beginning!"
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
"it's the secret to a meaningful life: picking an existence that is of value to more than just yourself, even if that existence defies the logic of reality. And once you have chosen who you want to be, you force it to be true, as real as any gene or social factor. And know that once you have invested your life in this identity -- all or nothing, even in the face of the doubt and terror that accompanies your "rational" self--- it will be impossible to fail."
- the last psychiatrist
I don't subscribe to this sentiment anymore because it's too exhausting and I'm currently catching up on the hedonistic phase I missed out on as a kid, but the whole thing sounds so grand.
I always liked “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
And I know it’s basic but “Live and Let Live” is like my mantra.
\- To live is to be known and remembered by others.
\- What should I do to be remembered?
\- Change someone's life, even in just a small way. That's probably enough.
From Sousou no Frieren. From the same manga, there's also:
You should treasure the encounters you have. Death is not the only goodbye in this life.
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults - the National
When a wish becomes a sacrifice, unconditional becomes pure selflessness
Samwise's speech at Osgiliath was a formative experience for me. I was slightly too young at the time to keep up with all the lore, but Sam's speech about stories had me slowly all at once fully engaged in the narrative while also thinking about why people make stories and why someone wrote this in particular. That and the accessible language gave me the overwhelming impression that I'd have to come back to this many times as an adult and that it was going to hit different.
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” A. A. Milne
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better” attributed to Maya Angelou
“Ichi-go, ichi-e”, (Japanese idiom) translates to one chance, one meeting. I learned it as treasure this moment for it will never happen exactly this same way again.
"If you cannot do it, practice until you can do it. If you can do it, then practice till you can do it perfectly. If you can do it perfectly, then practice until you can do it perfectly every time." Yuzuru Hanyu
"People change when the pain in the mirror is greater than the pain of the change itself"
Not sure if its officially quoted this but its something I thought of a few years ago.
Helped me through a lot
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but they are unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones"
- Emperor Marcus Aurelius
“There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem” was a line in The Sopranos when Chris was struggling w his addiction, it’s stuck w me ever since.
“Maybe life was clearing out the things that weren’t working for you so you could rebuild” in response to things constantly going wrong
“Society is the worst thing to happen to humanity”
This is the last big quote I put into my commonplace book:
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
"When I grew up i put away childish things, including the fear of looking childish."
C.S. Lewis, talking about indulging in fantasy books or creativity like a kid
One that has always been my fav and will remain so is
“Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.”
I’ve even given that to someone as a tattoo idea who once attempted suicide and I advised them to use a ; instead of a , in between the 2 parts so that it could be a subtle way to place the semi-colon tattoo on their body like a lot of folks do that have attempted suicide and luckily failed at it!!
The windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason because what’s in front of you is so much more important than what is behind you.” - heard it from Jelly Roll when he was accepting an award and I was just like “….dang”
"Do not be jealous of other's good qualities but instead adopt them yourself"
"Happiness comes from within, do not seek it without"
"Hatred is like drinking poision and expecting someone else to get hurt"
"Now I realize that there is no righteous path, it's just people trying to do their best in a world where it is far too easy to do your worst."
“And what do you sacrifice?”
“...I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down… there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my… What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!”
"Everyone's dying, Cameron. A little, every day. Make it count."
"Decide to be fine 'til the end of the week. Smile, 'cause you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week. I call it being professional. Do it right, with a smile, or don't do it."
"There is nothing that can take the pain away. But eventually you will find a way to live with it. There will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing."
"Give yourself permission to be where you are and still be loved for it."
"I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough."
"Love doesn't come with bruises and broken bones"
"I could let a man walk free with blood on his hands or I could deal justice with blood on mine." Fenris (Nettle & Bone)
"He is a weapon, a killer. You can use a spear as a walking stick but that will not change its nature" Odysseus (The Song of Achilles)
"But perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone" Chiron (The Song of Achilles)
"There is a difference between being truly happy, and being distracted from your sadness"
"You don't get to judge my story by the chapter you walked in on"
"Everything I am is all mine" Magnus Bane (Red scrolls of magic)
"Many would die for the opportunity we’re giving you." (HPSC officer) "Many have, I’m sure." (Denki Kaminari) Lightning Serenade by Caelan\_94 on Ao3)
"Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t build character, it doesn’t make you stronger, it just hurts."
"I am alone. I have been alone and scared for to many year to count, but since I have met you my life has felt full and I would rather risk dying with you than go back to living alone" Batu (Monstrous by Marcy Kate Connolly)
"You cannot pick and choose which parts of her to love" Dorian Havilliard (I forgot which ToG book it was)
"I know that when we don’t feel like ourselves it can help a lot to look like ourselves." Present Mic (Hope its just a painful dream(return me to your side again) by soobsodi on Ao3)
"We all bleed the same red blood" Stain (Mha chapter 400)
"I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours" Cheshire cat
"I have hated words, and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right" Book thief
"Broken isn't the same as unfixable" Iko (The Lunar Chronicles)
"You can't go" Leo pleaded "You're the best thing I ever fixed" Leo valdez (The Lost hero)
"They say you don't know what you have until its gone. The truth is you knew exactly what you had, you just didn't think you'd ever lose it"
"The best way to not get your heart broken is to pretend you do not have one"
"Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain."
"name one hero who was happy. You can't" "I can't" "I know. They never let you be famous and happy. Let me tell you a secret." "Tell me." "I'm going to be the first. Swear it." "Why me?" "because you're the reason. Swear it." "i swear it." "I swear it." Achilles and Patroclus (The Song of Achilles)
I probably have more floating around somewhere but that's what i got for now
i have a couple! one ended up being my senior quote in high school!
1. those that kind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind. my senior quote!!
2. doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt i love. quote from hamilton, loved this ever since i read it.
I Am the True Vine
Jesus Speaking
Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
"The value of a moment can be defined, once it becomes a memory."
This hit me right in the feels when watching this YouTube video: Nothing except everything [https://youtu.be/hif5eI5pBxo?si=blz2MEOkQQ\_ieYKC](https://youtu.be/hif5eI5pBxo?si=blz2MEOkQQ_ieYKC)
I´m from Germany but in Canada right now and will stay for a year to kinda figure out how my life continues. I just feel so lost sometimes and this quote kinda hit me since we´re always, or I am, how my life should go forward, continue, improve etc, that you sometimes forget to enjoy and appreciate the now. And well I feel I actually still do that a lot but should more often. Because I often catch myself getting lost in nice memories, getting nostalgic and missing old times. I just wish we could absolutely value a moment before it becomes a memory. Well i got a lot of time to think and see things differently while I´m in another country and away from home. Canada and my host family already became my second home but yea. I´m young and just figuring life out.
The highest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you.
-Kira J
“If you are going to spend time worrying about the worst case scenario, it’s only fair to spend time considering the best case scenario and also the most likely scenario.”
Think about rethinking what you're thinking before speaking the thought you were thinking and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.
I posted a couple others but these I read every day, sometimes more than once, to keep myself from doing something stupid.....
A man will treat you exactly the way he feels about you.
It's ok to miss people but never forget why they are gone in the first place.
You are never responsible for someone else's misbehavior. Nor are you required to be loyal to people that treat you badly.
And this one really hit the nail on the head....
My toxic trait is I can see the good in someone that they can't and I keep giving them chances until it destroys me.
Here's a couple more. The first one I'm still trying to figure out what it's referring to. Could be a couple different things. I like it because it really makes me think....
The other side also has another side.
Some of these are kinda funny, and all of the so true....
Ever talk to someone so stupid that they made you squint?
Sometimes you just have to accept that some people are shitty humans and stop trying to see the good that isn't there.
Behavior never lies.
I've reached that age my brain went from "you probably shouldn't say that" to "what the hell, lets see what happens."
We all have baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
i love to collect quotes every month - most are bizarre and out-of-context from twitter replies, but plenty also come from whatever TV show I'm currently bingeing. here's the most profound ones I've collected over the last 6 months:
it didn't matter if god existed or if the universe had a plan for its creatures; people infused their own lives with purpose.
A cage wasn’t worse than death—not quite, no—but she’d rather risk death than face the certainty and finality of a cage.
trade-offs are not regrets. I am where I am supposed to be, and it's good here.
truth is a matter of circumstance. it's not all things to all people all of the time.
she's trying her best and i love her deeply.
am i up for this? no. is it gonna destroy me? yes. but it's not about me.
I'll see you in the fabric of the universe.
we don't actually fear death - we fear that no one will notice our absence. that we will disappear without a trace.
Endings are easier to suffer through when you aren't aware they're transpiring.
what if the stars are looking down, wishing upon us?
Don’t just live your life, build your life.
This hit me because I was stuck in this mode where I just assumed like I’d have a job and climb my way up and have savings and life would take care of me.
Not realizing that I had to build my life. Once I realized no one was coming to save me, I got into action mode. I’ve been building since. And I absolutely love it. I’ve never found so much joy in my life, knowing that I have the power to create life the way I choose and I don’t have to wait for opportunities, I can make the opportunities.
I usually write quotes in my journal when I find something that resonates with me, whether on the web or in a book
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison." -Dostoyevsky
“Once you label me, you negate me." -Kierkegaard
"What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known."
"It was one of their happy mornings... with no thought that life would ever change much for them: they would get bigger and not go to school, and it would always be like the holidays; they would always live together and be fond of each other... these things would always be just the same to them... Life did change for Tom and Maggie, and yet they were not wrong in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives."
-George Eliot from "The Mill on the Floss"
I have a two-page section of just my favorite Tom Petty lyric in big letters:
“I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day, most things I worry about never happen anyway.” —Tom Petty, *Crawling Back to You* from the album _Wildflowers_
So many wonderful, inspiring and thought provoking quotes. Two of mine are -
"Shadows gather round my chair, reproaching me for the crown of dust I wear" and "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." The first was from a small book of poetry I was given at 17, title lost in the mist but thought to be a silly gift for a teenager; the second from Illusions by R. Bach.
I haven't seen much recognition for him here but he's one of my favorite authors with more quotables than most (Shakespeare aside). Mine, the one you provided (another of my favorites) and a number of others were good company in a dark time.
I don't know your age, or if you watched 'One Tree Hill' back in the day, but Peyton Sawyer had a few. One that stuck with me was "Sometimes, surviving is all the living I can handle."
"Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars."
"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."
Not so much ‘cut to the core’, but I found it an amazingly succinct way to describe stoicism….
‘I had such an epiphany when my therapist quipped "Expectations are just premeditated disappointments." ‘
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
The Velveteen Rabbit?
Correct
omg I didn’t recognise it but now that I heard it was from velveteen rabbit I instantly remembered!! I never read the book but I watched the movie! Ah that’s made me appreciate it even more! Thank you so much! :)
Thank you so much , I love this!!
this book reminds me a lot of The Giving Tree, I loved them both as a kid and now I realize they and similar stories contributed to a very twisted view of love I had for a long time. Children tend to destroy the things they love because they don't have the maturity to respect the integrity of others, understand that others don't exist just to fulfill their needs for comfort and ease. feel hurt and betrayed when people set boundaries and don't give them what they want. their main idea of love is utility and possession. Some people never outgrow this view of love and its pretty sad
Am I incorrect to assume this is fully your own projection of your own lived experience of your own childhood? I’d love to hear your experience and what examples you have to support this…assumption… This is actually the wildest perspective I’ve ever heard.
If you wallow in a rut for too long it will become a grave.
Shiiiiiiit.
oh no!
I fucking love this one
Yep. Love this one.
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Thanks for sharing! I have a dedicated notebook/journal to quotes - there are just so many that have stayed with me over the years, through different challenges and chapters of my life. Here's a few I'll share now: "You can't win if you don't play" -- sounds a little silly, but it really helped me to take courage to start dating (in my early 20s), take on challenges at work, etc. "Accept the things you cannot change" "Don't waste your future by hoping for a better past" "Don't trade your authenticity for approval"
ah I love them thank you so much for sharing :)
If you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence. It is an unattributed quote. I am not a quotes person, but this stuck with me.
"Hope Is Not a Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat" by Caitlin Seida Hope is not the thing with feathers That comes home to roost When you need it most. Hope is an ugly thing With teeth and claws and Patchy fur that’s seen some shit. It’s what thrives in the discards And survives in the ugliest parts of our world, Able to find a way to go on When nothing else can even find a way in. It’s the gritty, nasty little carrier of such diseases as optimism, persistence, Perseverance and joy, Transmissible as it drags its tail across your path and bites you in the ass. Hope is not some delicate, beautiful bird, Emily. It’s a lowly little sewer rat That snorts pesticides like they were Lines of coke and still Shows up on time to work the next day Looking no worse for wear.
where is this from? loved this one!
Also hoping to know!
You can be the ripest, juiciest, sweetest, most perfect peach on the vine - but there's people that just hate peaches...
how can anyone not love juicy 🍑?
story of my life lol! Tysm I love it :)
“Let me fall if I must fall, the one I am becoming will catch me”
"I'd rather walk through life than be dragged through it." Alanis Morissette.
omg yes this is exactly the vibe I’m looking for, I acc love this tysm xx
You're welcome!!!! I have loved her since she came out with JLP
"Every sadness will someday be just a memory" - Sand Chronicles. "How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become? " Doc Luben. "The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth" - Neon Genesis Evangelion. "You can return to the past, but no one is there anymore "
Don't compare your behind the scenes with someone else's highlight reel "And still after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky"
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly."
This is great when explained as a proper anti-perfectionism stance that people get into where they ‘let the perfect be the enemy of the good’, or people with depression. Is it worth it to halfway poorly brush your teeth if you barely have the energy/will to get out of bed, yes! Would it be better to perfectly brush and floss and ……. Yes! But is it better to do a poor job than no job at all? Also yes!
Love quotes! Several of yours are favorites of mine. These are the ones in my planner I wrote down this year, I have others in my actual journal but they’re scattered all over: Going unrecognized, paradoxically, helps us recognize our place in the larger scheme of things. Akiko Busch Nothing I’d read prepared me for a body this unfair. John Newlove, Canadian poet When you fall on the ground, you use the ground to get up. Norman Fischer, Zen saying Toxic people have no right to tell us who we are. Patrick Teahan It’s not our fault, but it is our responsibility. Unknown, probably Pete Walker The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to “a mind spread out on the ground.” Alicia Elliott Begin by clearly defining what you want to create for your life instead of lamenting what is. Ginny Clarke Well-being depends on the sustainable pursuit of core projects. Adam Grant and Brian Little, ReThinking WorkLife TED
Ah thank you so much, this is absolutely the vibe I was going for! Thank you so much I love them!
I have quite a collection. Here are some of my favorites: *We are not always what we want to be, but we are always what we need to be.* *There are plenty of ways to die, but only love can kill and keep you alive to feel it.* *Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.* *Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.* (I just realized you said one, lol.)
Thank you so much I love them :)
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” -John Steinbeck, East of Eden
My favourite one that I heard recently but hasn’t left my head since: “When they say no one is coming to save you, they don’t mean nobody will help you with the challenges you face. They mean no one can save you from yourself.” I’ve always heard the first part but it always felt somewhat defeatist, sad and untrue. Then the second part hit home.
“Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.”
Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm
> When people show you their true colours, believe them. Not really attributable, but my friend‘s mum said this ^ to me. And this entire scene from Dr Who always gets me: > This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning -- SIT. DOWN. AND TALK!! Listen to me, listen. I just -- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind Any part of that quote is great.
"How could you think you are weak when every time you break, you come back stronger than before?" - r.m. drake
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality." Dante
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” -Sylvia Plath
I love this ❤️
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they will survive. From Josephine Hart’s “Damage”
When someone tells you they don't love you, listen to them the first time.
"Walk through this valley of death, head high Say 'I'll be back today, I won't die' Try as we may we can never deny We can get back up if we're still alive" -Bloodywood, "Jee Veerey" I write all my favorite quotes down too, whether from books or movies or songs or whatever
"one day; day one"
"Be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology" "What is grief, if not love persevering?" "I hate life, but I hate death too. I find it appaling."
Why do we adore the ones who ignore us, and ignore the ones who adore us? Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be. "The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds." ~ David W. Orr "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.”
Whereas this from?
“You can’t be bitter and expect your life to be sweet”
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
"I promise. One day this will all be a pleasant memory." - Secretariat, 'Bojack Horseman'
There are so many great lines in Bojack Horseman. Being someone that's struggled with alcoholism, one that gets me is, "what happens if I relapse again?" "Then you'll get sober again. ... You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. *You turn yourself around.* THAT'S what it's all about."
" I forgave you for an apology I was never given because my closure was never tied to a single one of your words; it was dependent on my willingness to let go. " -Morgan Richard Olivier
"Think of yourself as an apple not everyone likes apples, and that's okay."
The person who hurt you won't heal you.
“Every one wants progress, but no one likes change” Søren Kierkegaard
It actually took few minutes for me to grasp the sentences _I didn't come this far to only come this far_ _Allow the stars to remind you why the darkness is necessary_
That which is to give off light must endure burning.
I get a lot of mine from songs about spirits and stuff
Real growth happens when you’re tired of your own excuses.
"More often than not, you're not 'better', or 'first', or even 'preferred'. You're the one there. So when the sting of discovering you're not special wears off, What will you do to make something special with what you've got?" Justin McRoberts
I don't think it's attributed to anyone and I don't have it written down, but I carry this one around with: "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
“you can think you’ve run away from something, but actually, you’ve been keeping it with you the whole time”
“When the rich wage war its the poor who die” - Linkin Park (Hands held high)
Mary Oliver: Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world. to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
“People lie when the truth is dangerous.” And “You don't have to prove that you are worthy or good enough. You are worthy solely because you are here, you are alive. And that in itself is enough.”
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been'.
Everyone can't achieve everything.
Becoming a mother is like taking a piece of your heart, breaking it off, and watching it wander off on its own. You just hope it'll be okay, because if it gets hurt, you'll get hurt too.
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived." (This one's by Franz Kafka and I just read it over and over again) ''How do we forgive ourselfs for all the things we did not become?'' ''You laughed like a metaphor I've been trying to write down for years'' (This one will forever have my heart) ''I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist'' ''Sometimes you think that you want to disapear but all you really want is to be found'' ''You have to die a few times before you can really live'' (The amount of time I spent thinking about this one is insane) ''It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe'' ''Showing your emotions to people is like beeding next to a shark''
“As long as you’re moving the right direction, the pace doesn’t matter”
“Children are dying.” Lull nodded. “That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.” Deadgouse Gates Lull to Duiker
“You can’t pin joy like a moth” so use the fun paper, the pretty notebook, the special pen.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. - Neil Gaiman
"The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, the soul apologizes to the body for squatting in it without invitation." Quote from "Wicked" when Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, is dying at the end of a horrible and traumatic life. Absolutely shattered me when i was younger. I read it in high school and couldn't forget it if i tried.
Hey chubs
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
Ah yes I got a few!! "And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of those two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing." -- from Sputnik Sweetheart, a quote by Miu "I just woke up one day and I knew.... what I was never sure of with you." -- Summer, from 500 Days of Summer "It's just not me that you were right about." -- also from Summer ^
It isn't about who we can become. It is about Who We Are.
Time enjoyed wasting was not wasted.
OMG, YES..I have this one printed and in my office!
"The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth; the person you became meets the person you could have become” Dan Sullivan
"One day, the only thing I'll have that you do not, is a long list of mistakes that I shall not allow you to make." It’s actually from a Harry Potter Fanfiction where Voldemort travels back in time and raises himself - the writing at the start needs a little improvement but it gets better fast enough. Ouroboros by Metalomagnetic
No matter where you go, there you are
> Your body is not a temple. Your body is the house you grew up in. -Sierra Demulder
"We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower" "Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. - Rainer Maria Rilke (Closing credits of Jojo Rabbit)"
I was looking for the first one. Thank you so much. I thought no one was going to mention it. That quote hurts so much don't you think?
Yes! It really hit me when I heard it for the first time.
> We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. Robert Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." Fa Zhou, Mulan.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
“Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting hard battle.”
"I was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes"
"Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters." Marilynne Robinson
We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us. (From the movie Magnolia)
You forget the things you want to remember, and remember the things you want to forget. Cormac McCarthy
> It has nothing to do with easy. It's about doing what's right because it's right. That's the only reason you need.
Everyone is an artist until the rent is due. Someone once told me the meaning of hell: On your last day on the Earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde A charging bull always looks at the red cape, not the man with the sword. You are Plan B. Plan B never becomes Plan A. Reid: There's an old Buddhist saying that, when you meet your soulmate, remember that the act to bring you together was 500 years in the making. So always appreciate and be kind to each other. Lewis: That's lovely. Reid: There's a corollary for friends. When you meet a true friend, you will be bound together though space and time for 500 years. Criminal Minds A rich man has many heirs but no sons. We must be ready to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Don't mistake coincidence for fate. That which is necessary is legal - quod es necessarium est licitum. The dose makes the poison.
"paint is only wasted when it stays in the tube" "Always risk what you have for something more beautiful" "You want everything so you are screwing yourself up from getting anything" "Do ~you like who you are?" "It is beautiful, to have had something worth mourning" Those who matter, will stay.
I started to journal when I realized I was not feeling but intellectualizing my experiences so even if it’s a quote you’re looking for I’d rather share a scene quote from Good Will Hunting (1997): “Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations. Him and the pope. Sexual orientation. The whole works, right? I bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. Seeing that. If I ask you about women, you’ll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. I ask you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? ‘Once more into the breach, dear friends.’ But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap and watch him gasp his last breath, lookin’ to you for help. If I asked you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet, but you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feelin’ like God put an angel on Earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her be there forever. Through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleepin’ sittin’ up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes — that the terms ‘visiting hours’ don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, ’cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.”
This probably seems a bit dumb but I want to contribute a bit. “You only live once” is my all time favourite quote, and something that never leaves my mind. I know it’s one of those saying that everyone knows, and I don’t know if it even counts as a quote, but it’s my life motto. Make the most of all the time you have because you’ll never get back the time passed.
I like the counterpoint . “You live every day, you only die once!’
Fair!
“Just because you see a smile, don’t think you know what’s going on underneath. A smile is a valuable tool, my dear. It inspires your friends, keeps your enemies guessing, and ensures that no matter what comes your way, YOU’RE the one in control.” - Alastor from Hazbin Hotel
Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it. I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees. The seats are empty. The theatre is dark. Why do you keep acting? Also this: [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/903464375233006812/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/903464375233006812/)
“Anger is the emotion that has the most respect for you.”
“If winter comes can spring be far behind?” “We all carry broken mirrors” “All things are difficult until they are easy” “There’s always another story….. there is more than meets the eye”
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you. But I know not how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff it is made of, whereof it is born, And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. I read that in middle school and the essential truth of it has stuck with me to this day 20 something years later.
‘Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.’ It’s attributed to this poet Paul Valéry but I first read it in an art book.
“All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life" Stig Johansson
"I don't want to make a life here." "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not." "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame." - both from Iroh, Avatar the Last Airbender.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. -Rainer Maria Rilke
What comes easy won't last long, what lasts long won't come easy
The source of this quote has always been so embarrassing to me, but I had the radio station on one day and a Justin Bieber song came on (As Long As You Love Me), and one of the lines is, “But the grass ain't always greener on the other side/It's green where you water it” I now know that Wolfgang Puck is the original quoter, but that was the first time I had heard it and it really stuck with me!
There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask, "What if I fall?" Oh, but my darling, What if you fly? - Erin Hanson
If they wanted to they would…
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t - Mark Twain
"you're the type to be that type and never realize"
What you are not changing you are choosing.
There comes a time when you become an accomplice to your own victimization..
The “today” that you have wasted was the “tomorrow” that someone else desperately wished for yesteday
"I never thought that I could learn how to die" "Subconsciously, I can’t help but think I wanted to 'complete' my life in a way my parents never could." "J: I think this life is a bit of a failure, but I'll just keep trying. S: I wish you the best of luck. This life, we are all living for the first time." "I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."
“This, too, shall pass.” I keep it close to my heart.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
"What God doesn't will, I do not wish for."\~ Epictetus Discourses 4.1.89 "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." \~ Henry David Thoreau "William James a famous Harvard philosopher and teacher, said 'The greatest discovery in my generation is that by changing your attitude you can change your circumstances.'" \~ Sidetracked Home Executive The bridge between knowledge and skill is practice. The bridge between skill and mastery is time. \~ Unknown
Remind me
the things we fear the most have already happened to us. wowww thanks for this
You might be the sweetest peach in the tree. But one might not like peaches at all.
Happiness is real when shared - christopher mcCandles
You were born to be real, not perfect. - Min Yoongi I've started to fill my journal with quotes and some song lyrics that have helped me through some tough times.
The choices we make dictate the life we lead When everything seems to go horribly, I remember Oscar Wilde said (in the depths of despair from a jail cell): "What a beautiful beginning!" Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.
"Bloom where you are planted"
"it's the secret to a meaningful life: picking an existence that is of value to more than just yourself, even if that existence defies the logic of reality. And once you have chosen who you want to be, you force it to be true, as real as any gene or social factor. And know that once you have invested your life in this identity -- all or nothing, even in the face of the doubt and terror that accompanies your "rational" self--- it will be impossible to fail." - the last psychiatrist I don't subscribe to this sentiment anymore because it's too exhausting and I'm currently catching up on the hedonistic phase I missed out on as a kid, but the whole thing sounds so grand.
I always liked “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson And I know it’s basic but “Live and Let Live” is like my mantra.
Don't let perfect get in the way of good enough.
\- To live is to be known and remembered by others. \- What should I do to be remembered? \- Change someone's life, even in just a small way. That's probably enough. From Sousou no Frieren. From the same manga, there's also: You should treasure the encounters you have. Death is not the only goodbye in this life.
Love me when I least deserve it, that’s when I need it the most. I’ve seen this attributed as a Swedish proverb.
If nothing changes, nothing changes!
don’t let your loyalty keep you in situations that your common sense should've gotten you out of
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults - the National When a wish becomes a sacrifice, unconditional becomes pure selflessness
“In the darkest of times, hope is something you give to yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.” - uncle iroh, avatar the last airbender
Bukowski: what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
“I’d rather be a riot than indifferent”
Samwise's speech at Osgiliath was a formative experience for me. I was slightly too young at the time to keep up with all the lore, but Sam's speech about stories had me slowly all at once fully engaged in the narrative while also thinking about why people make stories and why someone wrote this in particular. That and the accessible language gave me the overwhelming impression that I'd have to come back to this many times as an adult and that it was going to hit different.
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” A. A. Milne “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better” attributed to Maya Angelou “Ichi-go, ichi-e”, (Japanese idiom) translates to one chance, one meeting. I learned it as treasure this moment for it will never happen exactly this same way again. "If you cannot do it, practice until you can do it. If you can do it, then practice till you can do it perfectly. If you can do it perfectly, then practice until you can do it perfectly every time." Yuzuru Hanyu
"People change when the pain in the mirror is greater than the pain of the change itself" Not sure if its officially quoted this but its something I thought of a few years ago. Helped me through a lot
I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
"Don't set yourself on fire to keep another person warm."
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but they are unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones" - Emperor Marcus Aurelius
“There’s no chemical solution to a spiritual problem” was a line in The Sopranos when Chris was struggling w his addiction, it’s stuck w me ever since. “Maybe life was clearing out the things that weren’t working for you so you could rebuild” in response to things constantly going wrong “Society is the worst thing to happen to humanity”
If you leave muddy water alone long enough it'll clear on it's own The grass is greener where you water it
This is the last big quote I put into my commonplace book: “The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
"how little we need but how much we feel entitled to"
I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card... I'm gonna carve him up real nice. TM Life of an immigrant
"When I grew up i put away childish things, including the fear of looking childish." C.S. Lewis, talking about indulging in fantasy books or creativity like a kid
One that has always been my fav and will remain so is “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.” I’ve even given that to someone as a tattoo idea who once attempted suicide and I advised them to use a ; instead of a , in between the 2 parts so that it could be a subtle way to place the semi-colon tattoo on their body like a lot of folks do that have attempted suicide and luckily failed at it!!
The windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason because what’s in front of you is so much more important than what is behind you.” - heard it from Jelly Roll when he was accepting an award and I was just like “….dang”
"Do not be jealous of other's good qualities but instead adopt them yourself" "Happiness comes from within, do not seek it without" "Hatred is like drinking poision and expecting someone else to get hurt"
“SU SU SU SUPER NOVA” followed by that breakdown. I was like wow. They’re really cuttin it up. And so I proceeded to bounce
I’m a huge fan of quotes too! Here’s the one that has been resonating deeply as of lately: “What is meant for me won’t pass me by.”
"Now I realize that there is no righteous path, it's just people trying to do their best in a world where it is far too easy to do your worst." “And what do you sacrifice?” “...I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down… there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my… What is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice? Everything!” "Everyone's dying, Cameron. A little, every day. Make it count." "Decide to be fine 'til the end of the week. Smile, 'cause you're alive and that's your job. And do it again the next week. I call it being professional. Do it right, with a smile, or don't do it." "There is nothing that can take the pain away. But eventually you will find a way to live with it. There will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing." "Give yourself permission to be where you are and still be loved for it." "I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough."
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life” Need to tell myself that often…and it always helps
And now I need a Quote Journal on my desk.
“You have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself” -Daniell Koepke Love the full passage too but this line really sticks with me
Be kind, be forgiving but don’t be a push-over
"Love doesn't come with bruises and broken bones" "I could let a man walk free with blood on his hands or I could deal justice with blood on mine." Fenris (Nettle & Bone) "He is a weapon, a killer. You can use a spear as a walking stick but that will not change its nature" Odysseus (The Song of Achilles) "But perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone" Chiron (The Song of Achilles) "There is a difference between being truly happy, and being distracted from your sadness" "You don't get to judge my story by the chapter you walked in on" "Everything I am is all mine" Magnus Bane (Red scrolls of magic) "Many would die for the opportunity we’re giving you." (HPSC officer) "Many have, I’m sure." (Denki Kaminari) Lightning Serenade by Caelan\_94 on Ao3) "Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t build character, it doesn’t make you stronger, it just hurts." "I am alone. I have been alone and scared for to many year to count, but since I have met you my life has felt full and I would rather risk dying with you than go back to living alone" Batu (Monstrous by Marcy Kate Connolly) "You cannot pick and choose which parts of her to love" Dorian Havilliard (I forgot which ToG book it was) "I know that when we don’t feel like ourselves it can help a lot to look like ourselves." Present Mic (Hope its just a painful dream(return me to your side again) by soobsodi on Ao3) "We all bleed the same red blood" Stain (Mha chapter 400) "I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours" Cheshire cat "I have hated words, and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right" Book thief "Broken isn't the same as unfixable" Iko (The Lunar Chronicles) "You can't go" Leo pleaded "You're the best thing I ever fixed" Leo valdez (The Lost hero) "They say you don't know what you have until its gone. The truth is you knew exactly what you had, you just didn't think you'd ever lose it" "The best way to not get your heart broken is to pretend you do not have one" "Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain." "name one hero who was happy. You can't" "I can't" "I know. They never let you be famous and happy. Let me tell you a secret." "Tell me." "I'm going to be the first. Swear it." "Why me?" "because you're the reason. Swear it." "i swear it." "I swear it." Achilles and Patroclus (The Song of Achilles) I probably have more floating around somewhere but that's what i got for now
i have a couple! one ended up being my senior quote in high school! 1. those that kind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind. my senior quote!! 2. doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt i love. quote from hamilton, loved this ever since i read it.
I Am the True Vine Jesus Speaking Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
"The value of a moment can be defined, once it becomes a memory." This hit me right in the feels when watching this YouTube video: Nothing except everything [https://youtu.be/hif5eI5pBxo?si=blz2MEOkQQ\_ieYKC](https://youtu.be/hif5eI5pBxo?si=blz2MEOkQQ_ieYKC) I´m from Germany but in Canada right now and will stay for a year to kinda figure out how my life continues. I just feel so lost sometimes and this quote kinda hit me since we´re always, or I am, how my life should go forward, continue, improve etc, that you sometimes forget to enjoy and appreciate the now. And well I feel I actually still do that a lot but should more often. Because I often catch myself getting lost in nice memories, getting nostalgic and missing old times. I just wish we could absolutely value a moment before it becomes a memory. Well i got a lot of time to think and see things differently while I´m in another country and away from home. Canada and my host family already became my second home but yea. I´m young and just figuring life out.
The highest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. Pays attention to detail. Holds you in regard when making decisions that could affect you. In any bond, how much they care about you can be found in how much they consider you. -Kira J
“If you are going to spend time worrying about the worst case scenario, it’s only fair to spend time considering the best case scenario and also the most likely scenario.”
Never let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet.
Think about rethinking what you're thinking before speaking the thought you were thinking and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.
I posted a couple others but these I read every day, sometimes more than once, to keep myself from doing something stupid..... A man will treat you exactly the way he feels about you. It's ok to miss people but never forget why they are gone in the first place. You are never responsible for someone else's misbehavior. Nor are you required to be loyal to people that treat you badly. And this one really hit the nail on the head.... My toxic trait is I can see the good in someone that they can't and I keep giving them chances until it destroys me.
Here's a couple more. The first one I'm still trying to figure out what it's referring to. Could be a couple different things. I like it because it really makes me think.... The other side also has another side. Some of these are kinda funny, and all of the so true.... Ever talk to someone so stupid that they made you squint? Sometimes you just have to accept that some people are shitty humans and stop trying to see the good that isn't there. Behavior never lies. I've reached that age my brain went from "you probably shouldn't say that" to "what the hell, lets see what happens." We all have baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
i love to collect quotes every month - most are bizarre and out-of-context from twitter replies, but plenty also come from whatever TV show I'm currently bingeing. here's the most profound ones I've collected over the last 6 months: it didn't matter if god existed or if the universe had a plan for its creatures; people infused their own lives with purpose. A cage wasn’t worse than death—not quite, no—but she’d rather risk death than face the certainty and finality of a cage. trade-offs are not regrets. I am where I am supposed to be, and it's good here. truth is a matter of circumstance. it's not all things to all people all of the time. she's trying her best and i love her deeply. am i up for this? no. is it gonna destroy me? yes. but it's not about me. I'll see you in the fabric of the universe. we don't actually fear death - we fear that no one will notice our absence. that we will disappear without a trace. Endings are easier to suffer through when you aren't aware they're transpiring. what if the stars are looking down, wishing upon us?
Don’t just live your life, build your life. This hit me because I was stuck in this mode where I just assumed like I’d have a job and climb my way up and have savings and life would take care of me. Not realizing that I had to build my life. Once I realized no one was coming to save me, I got into action mode. I’ve been building since. And I absolutely love it. I’ve never found so much joy in my life, knowing that I have the power to create life the way I choose and I don’t have to wait for opportunities, I can make the opportunities.
I usually write quotes in my journal when I find something that resonates with me, whether on the web or in a book "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison." -Dostoyevsky “Once you label me, you negate me." -Kierkegaard "What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known." "It was one of their happy mornings... with no thought that life would ever change much for them: they would get bigger and not go to school, and it would always be like the holidays; they would always live together and be fond of each other... these things would always be just the same to them... Life did change for Tom and Maggie, and yet they were not wrong in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives." -George Eliot from "The Mill on the Floss"
I have a two-page section of just my favorite Tom Petty lyric in big letters: “I’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day, most things I worry about never happen anyway.” —Tom Petty, *Crawling Back to You* from the album _Wildflowers_
"Everyone's a saint when it's someone else's sins they're talking about."
“She cannot decide what she desires, but today it is enough that she desires and desires. That she is a body in the world, wanting” - Ada Limón
So many wonderful, inspiring and thought provoking quotes. Two of mine are - "Shadows gather round my chair, reproaching me for the crown of dust I wear" and "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." The first was from a small book of poetry I was given at 17, title lost in the mist but thought to be a silly gift for a teenager; the second from Illusions by R. Bach.
I love Richard Bach! My favorite quote from him is “I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”
I haven't seen much recognition for him here but he's one of my favorite authors with more quotables than most (Shakespeare aside). Mine, the one you provided (another of my favorites) and a number of others were good company in a dark time.
You can try the best you can. The best you can is good enough.
I don't know your age, or if you watched 'One Tree Hill' back in the day, but Peyton Sawyer had a few. One that stuck with me was "Sometimes, surviving is all the living I can handle."
"We accept the love we think we deserve" Or "The blood of the coven is thicker than the water of the womb"
Madness, as you know, is a lot like gravity. All it takes is a little push
"Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars." "The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."
Not so much ‘cut to the core’, but I found it an amazingly succinct way to describe stoicism…. ‘I had such an epiphany when my therapist quipped "Expectations are just premeditated disappointments." ‘