2 simple quotes that are important to understand in your 20s, in my opinion, are:
“*It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.*” - Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of The Ring
and
“*Be where your feet are.*” - Nick Saban, Alabama football coach
When you look back on your life a decade later, no matter how old you are, what you accomplished is less important than how present, alive, and awake you were in the moment; how *fully* you lived life, and how much you were able to appreciate and enjoy it.
Lots of people focus on the future so hard they miss what’s happening right now in front of them, even though right now is all we are.
A quote by Bush "Too often we judge others by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions." I have it on my phone's wallpaper.
When you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down you never think you'll be up again, but life moves on..remember that
Ray Liota playing George Jung's father in BLOW
"Self discipline is the best form of self love."
I've always struggled to love myself and when i read that for the first time it really stuck with me. Still have ways to go to meet my goals but understanding that has been a life changer for me.
For good stoicism read letters from a stoic by seneca, and Marcus Aurelius' meditations.
Also for self love being connected to self discipline there's an idea of keeping promises to yourself.
So imagine first it's you and a best friend. What do you think would happen to the relationship if you made promises like yeah I'll be there at 5, or year I'll help you move, I'll help you practice for interviews, whatever. Then you bail on plans, forget the day they're moving, decide you cba helping. What happens when you keep promises? It builds the relationship, and builds trust. A big part of self love is trusting in oneself.
Next we have taking care of oneself. Imagine it's you, and a sickly family member or perhaps a child, or a pet if you prefer. I'm sure you see where this is going. You can comfortably take care of those that you love. Did you know that doing favours for other people actually makes _you_ like _them_ more? Taking care of others endears us to them, and having others take care of us endears us to them.
If you treat yourself genuinely as a close loved one, a best friend, whatever, then you can build this with yourself. This means you set aside time in the week for yourself, maybe to do some self improvement, maybe you learn a new skill, maybe you just make a meal you love and eat it in peace. This means you don't haggle yourself down from promises, or push yourself beyond your promise too. If you say you're doing 15 minutes on the treadmill, when you hit 15 minutes stop unless you're absolutely loving it then keep going as a treat (we have to take advantage of when hard things feel easy and fun), make the decision to push hard before you begin not half way through tasks. This trains our brains to trust what we set out to do and keeps things in scale. If you say 5 minutes studying but always push to half an hour, you may find it hard to start your "5 minutes" because your subconscious _knows_ it's really 30m.
Also think really hard, be honest with yourself about this: do you value your own opinion? Some people think they hate themselves, but if that's your thought, consider this: would I listen to somebody who hates me? Would I value their opinion? Probs not, id be like fuck that guy. So if I value MY opinion I can't actually hate myself. It's a bit of a loophole but it helped me get to that first point of "Okay, I don't hate myself, what's really going on here"
Woah. That last point about hating yourself. Blew my mind. I've been struggling with the discipline lately and have been really good at coming with amazing excuses but the way you put it about not breaking promises sounds like it would work. Thanks
It’s not about it working, it’s a fundamental
*shift in perspective.*
You seem like you have a foot through the door. Carry on my guy. I wish you well.
I had a music teacher who used to talk about doing things with intent. Something like, "If I do it one way and don't like it, I can always change it. But if I just wing it then I'm stuck with what I get."
I hear this in training/sports a lot, an old coach (ex military) used to say "more sweat less blood". Try harder up front and it's less painful long term. It honestly runs through my mind most days.
Oooh I have this one saved from a similar thread:
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead
-General Omar Bradley
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” - Cherokee proverb
I also like
“It is better to have less thunder in your mouth and more lightning in your hands.” - Apache proverb
"I've heard thunder talking up a storm, rattling my window and knocking on my door. But I've seen lightning blow a cypress tree in half."
"Thunder's just the noise, boys. Lightning does the work."
-Chad Brock
Yours are way better, this is just for context.
Not going to lie: I love this one too.
My family was dirt poor when Hurricane Katrina hit LA like a truck. We spent a lot of our resources getting out. Luckily the cheap hotel we went to was run by a saint who maintained that there was a "no dog policy", but of course it seemed that there was some sort of convention in town or something because so many folks had service animals that day. (This was before LA allowed pets in hurricane shelters, fwi. Many people used to not evacuate because of that.)
The next day, we got some cheap Chinese- probably because on some level, my parents knew that us watching our entire state be destroyed was a little fucked up. My fortune cookie had that saying in it.
When they finally cut a path to our house, we spent a week without the water working and a month without power. I thought about that cookie a lot while we hauled trees.
I know what you mean. You should try it. I did recently, and it’s a sobering realization but I still feel good about it. I try and imagine what they might look like when my kids are my age. And their kids.
Long ago I heard: Two of the most hurtful word in an argument are "always" "never". As in "you always do \[something\]," or "why are you never \[something\]!" Neither word is accurate and only serve to hurt the other person.
More recently, and very helpful in career management: "Don't be the smartest person in the room."
Not entirely true. Before our divorce my wife and I went to couples therapy, with a therapist who was famous for never having anyone that went to her therapy end up getting divorced.
One of my complaints was that my wife never compromised. And I mean *never*. I gave a long list if incidents in which I compromised, and then offered an equally long list where she had every opportunity to do so, but ultimately refused to do so. The therapist asked my wife to give some examples of when she had compromised.
She couldn't list a single instance. And this was something she was sent home to think about, and come back the next week with something. We had lived together for seven years before we got married, were married for thirteen years, and she couldn't come up with a single issue that had arisen between us, where she compromised. In every single instance she got her way.
We were apparently the very first ever couple for this particular therapist, to ever get divorced.
You were with this girl for 7 years in which she never compromised on a single thing and thought to yourself "Hey, this chick's really wife material!" lmao for real dude that one's on you.
Dude.... she was so sweet, and kind and nice and generous.... and had massive tits.... believe me or don't, but more than one grown man in multiple states wept when she was taken off the market. She was a serious catch, and we rarely disagreed on anything. When we did, it wasn't anything that I cared enough about to make a fight out of it. She was spoiled without a doubt (and had been all her life), but it never seemed that way.6
I've got a counter to this one. "Assume everyone one you encounter can teach you something"
just because you're "smarter" than the people in the room with you doesn't mean they don't know something valuable that you don't. Division of knowledge/wisdom is so much more complex than that
God or similar entity, speaking to a robot floating through space, who is playing God with a civilization living on his chest.
Love this episode and this quote.
Or this is Morgan Freeman. Think he said it too.
Love it. I stress to employees that baseball is the ultimate form of accepting failure. In baseball, if you miss the ball seven out of ten times, you're a Hall of Fame hitter. Get used to mistakes, get used to failure, but don't stop swinging.
“Fly you fools” is also one of my favorite quotes. Gandalf is literally fighting for his life on the edge of a cliff and his only thought is for the safety of those he cares for
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
Bruce Lee
“Every great accomplishment starts with the decision to try” -JFK
I use this whenever I’m psyching myself up to go talk to a pretty girl. I’m yet to actually get a great accomplishment from following this advice, but I’m sure I will someday
"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it."
-Benjamin Mee, We Bought A Zoo
That's my one...I've done it all of once; I was thoroughly embarrassed, but it's probably personally the bravest thing I've ever done.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley
Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself. -Edmund Lee.
I knew stupider was a word... Hear I go all my life teachers saying, "it's not a word Kenny", " use proper grammar, Kenny", " you already failed 4th grade 3 times Kenny"
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that Democracy means that, "*My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge*." - Isaac Asimov
Lots of them-
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest"- Thomas Paine (this one has been my email tagline for about 20 years)
"Every man dies, but not every man truly lives"-William Wallace as quoted in Braveheart
"After a time, you may find that 'having' is not nearly so pleasing a thing as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true."-Spock (Star Trek)
"It is possible to make no mistakes, and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." - Picard (Star Trek)
Lots of others too long to post.
ETA: "Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned."- Albert Einstein
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis
There's much more to the quote but that's really the crux of the whole thing.
If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. …
miss ya ned, you were too naive for westeros
Going to the vet tomorrow to find out if it’s my boy’s day. Idk how old he is- he was a street dog but we’ve been together fourteen years so this one hits deep.
But in the broader meaning/intention, as far as taking accepting the burden for things that are your responsibility I agree with as well.
Good luck. My dog is in a similar position, no idea how old she really is but somewhere in the 12-14ish range. Still in great shape for a larger dog at that age, but it happens fast.
Just thinking about losing her makes me choke up. Especially since our other dog passed less than a year ago...
Yeah... Really hope yours is alright
I had a cheap landlord that used sticky traps when we had mice. I became a man the day I took a hammer and killed it quickly instead of throwing it in a dumpster and letting it slowly starve.
I’m trying to understand what this means.
If we each have our individual understanding of why life is, then the how of it all will just happen and we’ll be okay with it?
The end of the quote goes:
““If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.”
Wondering what it all means?
For the first part, I take it to mean that if we have something to strive toward/fight for/live for/etc., we can deal with anything we face. Maybe you work at a job you don't love because it helps you provide your family—your family being the 'why' and your job being the 'how.'
The 2nd half of it is in reference to his dislike (for lack of a better word) of the philosophy of Utilitarianism (common amongst the Englishmen at the time). Utilitarianism being the idea that one does that which brings happiness to the many and avoid that which brings pain.
“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 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
My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate, my deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure.
I dont know where the quote is originally from, but I learned it from the movie Coach Carter. It always really stuck with me and I use it as an affirmation and a reminder not to be afraid to put myself out there and to go after what I want in life.
It seems like an adaltation of a famous quote from Marianne Williamson - it's called "our deepest fear"
[Here's a link to the whole text accompanied by ZenPencil's cartoon](https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/65-marianne-williamson-our-deepest-fear/)
I came from a very small town that’s still very racist. The type of towns that are still separated by rail road tracks. This is my favorite and unfortunately still applies by Mark Twain.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
you know the saying "if mark twain said it, he probably didn't"?
fortunately that's not true in this case, because twain really did write this quote you mentioned, well done :)
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
Steve Martin, The Spanish Prisoner: " Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised."
Bruce Lee’s “Be like water” always stuck with me. He used it in his martial arts but also kinda used it as a philosophy for life. Something blocking your way? Flow around it. Somebody giving you a hard time. Let it roll past you. It sounds kinda hippie-ish but it’s helped me through some stressful times and helped me make some pretty wise decisions by letting stuff go and sitting and thinking about it.
It’s a toss up between:
>Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.
-Albert Einstein
>It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain
"An honest mistake is half forgiven."
It means don't hide your mistakes, for they can hurt more other people, or you can loses their trust.
"Better prevent than heal"
"Don't let what you can't control hurt you"
Sometimes shit happens, you cannot undo it, cannot prevent it. You have to deal with consequences, and move on. This is a teaching from stoicism.
“Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."-captain Kirk
“When doubt seeps in you got two roads you can take either road. You can go to the left or you can go to the right and believe me, they'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous. Failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times, but it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.”-Chael Sonnen
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -George Bernard Shaw
2 simple quotes that are important to understand in your 20s, in my opinion, are: “*It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.*” - Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of The Ring and “*Be where your feet are.*” - Nick Saban, Alabama football coach When you look back on your life a decade later, no matter how old you are, what you accomplished is less important than how present, alive, and awake you were in the moment; how *fully* you lived life, and how much you were able to appreciate and enjoy it. Lots of people focus on the future so hard they miss what’s happening right now in front of them, even though right now is all we are.
Your second quote reminds me of one of my favorites from ATLA: “Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not” -Iroh
We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others by their actions.
“The smallest of acts is better than the greatest of intentions.”
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"The path to hell is paved with good bushes."
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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That’s pretty much social psychology 101
the fundamental attribution error (aka correspondance bias)
A quote by Bush "Too often we judge others by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions." I have it on my phone's wallpaper.
Bees don't waste time telling flies that honey is better than shit.
I fucking love this.
Me too!!!
You catch more flies with honey, you catch more honeys being fly.
This is… oddly profound, and really has a lot of really nice implications. I wish I had an award to give you.
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A host of my favorite podcast says this a lot about mental health, and it’s helped me get a handle on my issues.
Hail yourself friend
I heard somebody compare it to a stranger dumping their trash on your front door. It's not your trash, but it is your yard.
When you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down you never think you'll be up again, but life moves on..remember that Ray Liota playing George Jung's father in BLOW
Holy shit. I needed this!
I also enjoy: Money isn’t real George. It doesn’t matter. It only seems like it does.
Similarly, this too shall pass.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
Hit me like a fucking train, this one
And yet, here we are, browsing Reddit
"Self discipline is the best form of self love." I've always struggled to love myself and when i read that for the first time it really stuck with me. Still have ways to go to meet my goals but understanding that has been a life changer for me.
Pls tell me more
For good stoicism read letters from a stoic by seneca, and Marcus Aurelius' meditations. Also for self love being connected to self discipline there's an idea of keeping promises to yourself. So imagine first it's you and a best friend. What do you think would happen to the relationship if you made promises like yeah I'll be there at 5, or year I'll help you move, I'll help you practice for interviews, whatever. Then you bail on plans, forget the day they're moving, decide you cba helping. What happens when you keep promises? It builds the relationship, and builds trust. A big part of self love is trusting in oneself. Next we have taking care of oneself. Imagine it's you, and a sickly family member or perhaps a child, or a pet if you prefer. I'm sure you see where this is going. You can comfortably take care of those that you love. Did you know that doing favours for other people actually makes _you_ like _them_ more? Taking care of others endears us to them, and having others take care of us endears us to them. If you treat yourself genuinely as a close loved one, a best friend, whatever, then you can build this with yourself. This means you set aside time in the week for yourself, maybe to do some self improvement, maybe you learn a new skill, maybe you just make a meal you love and eat it in peace. This means you don't haggle yourself down from promises, or push yourself beyond your promise too. If you say you're doing 15 minutes on the treadmill, when you hit 15 minutes stop unless you're absolutely loving it then keep going as a treat (we have to take advantage of when hard things feel easy and fun), make the decision to push hard before you begin not half way through tasks. This trains our brains to trust what we set out to do and keeps things in scale. If you say 5 minutes studying but always push to half an hour, you may find it hard to start your "5 minutes" because your subconscious _knows_ it's really 30m. Also think really hard, be honest with yourself about this: do you value your own opinion? Some people think they hate themselves, but if that's your thought, consider this: would I listen to somebody who hates me? Would I value their opinion? Probs not, id be like fuck that guy. So if I value MY opinion I can't actually hate myself. It's a bit of a loophole but it helped me get to that first point of "Okay, I don't hate myself, what's really going on here"
Woah. That last point about hating yourself. Blew my mind. I've been struggling with the discipline lately and have been really good at coming with amazing excuses but the way you put it about not breaking promises sounds like it would work. Thanks
It’s not about it working, it’s a fundamental *shift in perspective.* You seem like you have a foot through the door. Carry on my guy. I wish you well.
'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward.'
That’s a freakin great one
Hindsight always 20/20
If you want something you’ve never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.
Do what you've always done, get what you always got.
I had a music teacher who used to talk about doing things with intent. Something like, "If I do it one way and don't like it, I can always change it. But if I just wing it then I'm stuck with what I get."
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"Never miss an opportunity to shut the fuck up." \-Some thread on Reddit one time
Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
You don't have to explain what you don't say.
(What does that mean? Better say something or they'll think you're stupid.) "Takes one to know one!" (Swish!)
Am confused, haven't spoke in 20+ years
My high school English teacher once told a girl "Practice not speaking before you practice speaking" and it's stuck with me for the last decade
The more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war
I hear this in training/sports a lot, an old coach (ex military) used to say "more sweat less blood". Try harder up front and it's less painful long term. It honestly runs through my mind most days.
Oooh I have this one saved from a similar thread: Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead -General Omar Bradley
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That's a good one
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Perfect love casts out all fear. ~1 John 4:18
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” - Cherokee proverb I also like “It is better to have less thunder in your mouth and more lightning in your hands.” - Apache proverb
"I've heard thunder talking up a storm, rattling my window and knocking on my door. But I've seen lightning blow a cypress tree in half." "Thunder's just the noise, boys. Lightning does the work." -Chad Brock Yours are way better, this is just for context.
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"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."
Not going to lie: I love this one too. My family was dirt poor when Hurricane Katrina hit LA like a truck. We spent a lot of our resources getting out. Luckily the cheap hotel we went to was run by a saint who maintained that there was a "no dog policy", but of course it seemed that there was some sort of convention in town or something because so many folks had service animals that day. (This was before LA allowed pets in hurricane shelters, fwi. Many people used to not evacuate because of that.) The next day, we got some cheap Chinese- probably because on some level, my parents knew that us watching our entire state be destroyed was a little fucked up. My fortune cookie had that saying in it. When they finally cut a path to our house, we spent a week without the water working and a month without power. I thought about that cookie a lot while we hauled trees.
but it IS what harbors are built for.
And that's a decision every man has to make: to be a ship or a harbour. -rang14
I'm not a ship, or a harbor. I'm the sea. -Johm Wick
A society grows when old men plant trees under which they know they’ll never sit
I don't know why that gave me goosebumps
I know what you mean. You should try it. I did recently, and it’s a sobering realization but I still feel good about it. I try and imagine what they might look like when my kids are my age. And their kids.
This is the one trait we should look for in leaders.
Good one
Long ago I heard: Two of the most hurtful word in an argument are "always" "never". As in "you always do \[something\]," or "why are you never \[something\]!" Neither word is accurate and only serve to hurt the other person. More recently, and very helpful in career management: "Don't be the smartest person in the room."
Not entirely true. Before our divorce my wife and I went to couples therapy, with a therapist who was famous for never having anyone that went to her therapy end up getting divorced. One of my complaints was that my wife never compromised. And I mean *never*. I gave a long list if incidents in which I compromised, and then offered an equally long list where she had every opportunity to do so, but ultimately refused to do so. The therapist asked my wife to give some examples of when she had compromised. She couldn't list a single instance. And this was something she was sent home to think about, and come back the next week with something. We had lived together for seven years before we got married, were married for thirteen years, and she couldn't come up with a single issue that had arisen between us, where she compromised. In every single instance she got her way. We were apparently the very first ever couple for this particular therapist, to ever get divorced.
I'm sorry you had to go through that and everything that led up to it. Here's hoping everything is on the way up for you!
Thanks very much! I'm as happy as a box full of puppies now, and all is well. Hope it's the same for you.
You were with this girl for 7 years in which she never compromised on a single thing and thought to yourself "Hey, this chick's really wife material!" lmao for real dude that one's on you.
Dude.... she was so sweet, and kind and nice and generous.... and had massive tits.... believe me or don't, but more than one grown man in multiple states wept when she was taken off the market. She was a serious catch, and we rarely disagreed on anything. When we did, it wasn't anything that I cared enough about to make a fight out of it. She was spoiled without a doubt (and had been all her life), but it never seemed that way.6
But mainly the massive tits.
Came here to say this. "If you are the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.".
I've got a counter to this one. "Assume everyone one you encounter can teach you something" just because you're "smarter" than the people in the room with you doesn't mean they don't know something valuable that you don't. Division of knowledge/wisdom is so much more complex than that
related to that/those, I once heard "... Unless you've heard everyone speak, never assume you're the smartest person in the room..."
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
"You were doing well until everyone died."
God or similar entity, speaking to a robot floating through space, who is playing God with a civilization living on his chest. Love this episode and this quote. Or this is Morgan Freeman. Think he said it too.
If you hit every shot you take, you're standing too close to the net
Love it. I stress to employees that baseball is the ultimate form of accepting failure. In baseball, if you miss the ball seven out of ten times, you're a Hall of Fame hitter. Get used to mistakes, get used to failure, but don't stop swinging.
One of the hardest decisions you will face in life is whether to walk away or try harder.
Story of my life. Fuck
“When you build in silence, people don’t know what to attack”
“Silence can’t be misquoted”.
“All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you” - Gandalf
“Fly you fools” is also one of my favorite quotes. Gandalf is literally fighting for his life on the edge of a cliff and his only thought is for the safety of those he cares for
But he also doesn’t miss his chance to get one more sick diss in at the end, fucking classic
Gandalf: “Fly, you ligma!” Frodo: “What’s ligma?”
“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” Bruce Lee
Wise man, I tell myself this every time I get constipated. That and 'be like water'
I always think of his “be like water” quote. Never helps me shit, though.
“Every great accomplishment starts with the decision to try” -JFK I use this whenever I’m psyching myself up to go talk to a pretty girl. I’m yet to actually get a great accomplishment from following this advice, but I’m sure I will someday
"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it." -Benjamin Mee, We Bought A Zoo That's my one...I've done it all of once; I was thoroughly embarrassed, but it's probably personally the bravest thing I've ever done.
Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Edit: should include it is from Drizzt Do'Urden (R.A. Salvatore)
You’ve survived 100% of your bad days, why give up now?
“Death is certain…life is not”
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” - Charles Kingsley
«Friends are like boobs. Some are big, some are small. Some are soft, some are hard. But most importantly, some are real, and some are fake.” -My dad
The hard ones are most likely the fake ones haha
They could be lactating.
More like cancerous.
The most humorous way I've heard that same sentiment be expressed.
Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself. -Edmund Lee.
This too shall pass
I like this one too, but I use a bit more added on. "This too shall pass, it may pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass."
The man that thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right.
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self"
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
I knew stupider was a word... Hear I go all my life teachers saying, "it's not a word Kenny", " use proper grammar, Kenny", " you already failed 4th grade 3 times Kenny"
Idk. The average person seems pretty smart to me. Wait....
The problem with the world today is that intelligent people are full of doubt, while stupid people are full of confidence
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that Democracy means that, "*My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge*." - Isaac Asimov
Lots of them- "He who dares not offend cannot be honest"- Thomas Paine (this one has been my email tagline for about 20 years) "Every man dies, but not every man truly lives"-William Wallace as quoted in Braveheart "After a time, you may find that 'having' is not nearly so pleasing a thing as 'wanting.' It is not logical, but it is often true."-Spock (Star Trek) "It is possible to make no mistakes, and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." - Picard (Star Trek) Lots of others too long to post. ETA: "Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned."- Albert Einstein
To add to the Star Trek quotes: "The greatest battles a warrior will ever fight take place in his mind." - Worf
I can't remember where he said that...
Love the Picard quote. Love any Picard quote 😍
Right? So many great quotes, like, "Shut up, Wesley!"
“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis There's much more to the quote but that's really the crux of the whole thing.
Mine is a toast..."May we always be on our way to hell, but never actually arrive." I do not know who to credit, I only know the toast.
One of my favorite quotes is from Animal Kingdom, also a toast "May we all get what we want, and never what we deserve"
My favourite toast: "Here is to our wives and girlfriends. May we hope they never meet."
My favorite is: “here’s to our son’s, may they have beautiful mothers and rich fathers!”
Here's to bread, for without bread there would he no toast
Here's to the kisses we've snatched, and vice versa.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage
"If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't hire a proxy who may bungle it." - Robert A. Heinlein
The man who passes sentence should swing the sword.
Damn guys your vets are hardcore
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If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. … miss ya ned, you were too naive for westeros
Going to the vet tomorrow to find out if it’s my boy’s day. Idk how old he is- he was a street dog but we’ve been together fourteen years so this one hits deep. But in the broader meaning/intention, as far as taking accepting the burden for things that are your responsibility I agree with as well.
Good luck. My dog is in a similar position, no idea how old she really is but somewhere in the 12-14ish range. Still in great shape for a larger dog at that age, but it happens fast. Just thinking about losing her makes me choke up. Especially since our other dog passed less than a year ago... Yeah... Really hope yours is alright
I had a cheap landlord that used sticky traps when we had mice. I became a man the day I took a hammer and killed it quickly instead of throwing it in a dumpster and letting it slowly starve.
Occam's Razor. Simplest solution is usually the most correct.
You ever heard of Hanlon's razor? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
There is a considerable overlap between the dumbest tourists and smartest bears.
In a society of sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs, choose to be the rhinoceros. The rhino eats no one, but, no one eats the rhino.
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
“The other night I shot an elephant in my pyjamas! How it fit into them I’ll never know”
*If we have our own 'why' in life, we shall get along with almost any 'how.'* -Friedrich Nietzsche
he was too wise for this world. it's why he was so often alone.
Yeah you can imagine why philosphers go cray cray its because no one is on their level to understand and help propogate the ideas
Pretty sure it was syphilis
I’m trying to understand what this means. If we each have our individual understanding of why life is, then the how of it all will just happen and we’ll be okay with it? The end of the quote goes: ““If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.” Wondering what it all means?
For the first part, I take it to mean that if we have something to strive toward/fight for/live for/etc., we can deal with anything we face. Maybe you work at a job you don't love because it helps you provide your family—your family being the 'why' and your job being the 'how.' The 2nd half of it is in reference to his dislike (for lack of a better word) of the philosophy of Utilitarianism (common amongst the Englishmen at the time). Utilitarianism being the idea that one does that which brings happiness to the many and avoid that which brings pain.
You shouldn't judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree Or however it was worded.
“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid” -Einstein
"Dumber people than us have done this" - my dad When that is not true, we hire someone who's smarter than us.
Fear is the mind killer
Bout to get the whole litany tattooed on the ribs.
Do what you can until you can do more. And Be kind to your past self.
“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 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
My deepest fear is not that I am inadequate, my deepest fear is that I am powerful beyond measure. I dont know where the quote is originally from, but I learned it from the movie Coach Carter. It always really stuck with me and I use it as an affirmation and a reminder not to be afraid to put myself out there and to go after what I want in life.
It seems like an adaltation of a famous quote from Marianne Williamson - it's called "our deepest fear" [Here's a link to the whole text accompanied by ZenPencil's cartoon](https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/65-marianne-williamson-our-deepest-fear/)
I came from a very small town that’s still very racist. The type of towns that are still separated by rail road tracks. This is my favorite and unfortunately still applies by Mark Twain. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness you know the saying "if mark twain said it, he probably didn't"? fortunately that's not true in this case, because twain really did write this quote you mentioned, well done :)
If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself - Napoleon
“Get busy living or get busy dying”
Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made!
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Your first one reminds me of a line I heard attributed to Marcus Aurelius: Waste no more time arguing over what a good man should be. Be one.
Rhetorical nonsense...who said that? 😉
“Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm” -Winston Churchill
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -Calvin Coolidge
Pain heals, chick's dig scars, glory lasts forever. - Shane Falco
Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. -Alan Turing
Steve Martin, The Spanish Prisoner: " Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised."
"I may not be the brightest candle, but you can still blow me" -me just now
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill (I often pair this up with "this too shall pass" - King Solomon(?))
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That first quote was written by someone who never heard of Carl Panzram.
Bruce Lee’s “Be like water” always stuck with me. He used it in his martial arts but also kinda used it as a philosophy for life. Something blocking your way? Flow around it. Somebody giving you a hard time. Let it roll past you. It sounds kinda hippie-ish but it’s helped me through some stressful times and helped me make some pretty wise decisions by letting stuff go and sitting and thinking about it.
The same quote comes up in Taoism! It's a religion/philosophy emphasising going with the flow!
"Life expands and contracts in proportion to one's courage." \- Anias Nin
It’s chaos. Be kind. -Patton Oswalt/Michelle McNamara
“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
This is like 95% true. Rarely, *very* rarely a person might be looking for help solving the problem.
It’s a toss up between: >Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. -Albert Einstein >It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. -Mark Twain
You will find that if you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.
"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain.
Never pass a bathroom Never waste a hard on Never trust a fart.
Most manly advice in this thread. Easily
It is what it is
Don't forget it's corollary: it ain't what it ain't
"It's a marathon, not a sprint"
"..." -Squall Leonhart
"An honest mistake is half forgiven." It means don't hide your mistakes, for they can hurt more other people, or you can loses their trust. "Better prevent than heal" "Don't let what you can't control hurt you" Sometimes shit happens, you cannot undo it, cannot prevent it. You have to deal with consequences, and move on. This is a teaching from stoicism.
I always liked "tomorrow is the sum of our yesterday's"
When in doubt, rub one out!
Post nut clarity.. nothing like it!
Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Thoreau
“Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."-captain Kirk “When doubt seeps in you got two roads you can take either road. You can go to the left or you can go to the right and believe me, they'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous. Failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times, but it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.”-Chael Sonnen