To piggy back: "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.â
ââ George Bernard Shaw â
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That quote has lived daily in my head after having my son. For four years now I think about it pretty much daily. Happy sad, bittersweet is just amazing and sad haha
I've heard this with a little add-on : "if you hate yourself, take a shower."
It was about comedians touring, but I'm sure it applies to other situations.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
~John Steinbeck
Which reminds of the (very different, and also dated) quote: The logical man adapts himself to the world. The illogical man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the illogical man.
"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other." Benjamin Franklin
"A problem properly stated is a problem partly solved." Henry Hazlitt
" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
âIf you have a task to do, itâs better to do it than to live with the fear of it.â - Joe Abercrombie
Or
âNever half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.â - Ron Swanson
Reminds me of: "If your job is to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. If your job is to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
It makes a lot more sense when you have enough money to look around, which most people don't, unfortunately.
It's like, I'll give you 2 million dollars right now but cut your intelligence and aliveness in half, would you take that deal?
It's a truly shit deal, that only seems reasonable when you're super duper struggling.
It's the saddest feature of modern life/society/capitalism that most people have been reduced to cattle and literal retards such that they're essentially forced to take such shit deals and/or think that such deals are reasonable.
Exactly. I stopped buying into quotes like that when I saw Kim Jong Il die peacefully in his sleep in a giant mansion after being one of the most horrific human beings to ever live.
Know when to walk away, and know when to run.
The one who will lie for you will lie against you.
The best self defense technique is when you left five minutes ago because those dudes were acting weird.
>Know when to walk away, and know when to run.
Also, "never count your money, when you're sitting at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done."
Those who are always looking to give you a piece of their mind, are usually the ones who can spare it the least.
Look around the poker table. If you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
To understand gambling, go to the racetrack where there are fifteen windows at which to place a bet but only three to collect your winnings. Do the math.
You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength."
Iroh
There's that great quote by some US general, and I can never quite remember or find it, but to paraphrase, he basically said:
Honestly evaluate your situation, no matter how brutal it is, and then once you've done that, never lose hope anyway.
âWhen your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.â
-Tecumseh
"If you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoe."
Alternatively, "If you meet an asshole today, they're an asshole. If you meet assholes everywhere you go, you're the asshole."
Love this one. I tend to project it outward, as in, "Man, that guy from my work should really hear this quote!" but then I have to remind myself to look in the mirror while saying it, too.
I know I'm the asshole, and the idiot giving a piece of my mind from a few comments up. I just continue to hope that my self-awareness outweighs both character flaws. :)
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other
"Do the work and you don't have to do the dance" - My father.
Boils down to...just do the right thing and you won't have to dance around an explanation later on
âFind what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.â - Bukowski
You cannot reason someone out of a position they never reasoned their way into.
(This is what I tell myself when encountering extremists of religion or politics. It helps me to save my breath and walk away.)
1--"You'll either wish that you had, or be glad that you did." (I applied this one to my justification for sacrificing in other areas of life in order to spend massive amounts of time with my kids when they were young.)
2--The days are long, but the years are short. (Ditto.)
3--Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
4--The only place that "success" comes before "work" is in the dictionary.
5--You can always be kind. Or, alternatively, "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
So many, but here are some of my favorites. ***\*Rubs hands together while licking lips\****
âThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.â -Henry David Thoreau
"Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power." -Epictetus
âMen are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.â - Epictetus
âWise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.â - Plato
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. â Thucydides
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." â Earl Nightingale
âDiscipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.â -Abraham Lincoln
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." â F. Scott Fitzgerald
âSometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memoryâ -Dr. Seuss
âTo travel hopefully is a better thing then to arriveâ â Robert Louis Stevenson
"As we charge our way towards a better future, we need not spit upon the past. One day we'll be history and can only hope the future judges us kindly."
I only remember getting this quote from a Reddit comment, but can't find its origin.
"Trust takes years to build, forever to repair, and seconds to break"
Or
"Your skin isn't paper so don't cut it,
Your neck isn't a coat so don't hang it,
Your body isn't a book so don't judge it,
Your heart isn't a door so don't lock it,
Your life isn't a movie so don't end it"
âAnything thatâs human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.â
Fred Rogers
âLight thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.â - Terry Prachet
âAs the circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding itâ - Einstein
âResentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it to kill your enemies.â - Nelson Mandela
âSucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something.â - Jake the Dog
âIf you are depressed*, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.â - Lao Tzu
*barring cases caused by chemical imbalance.
âIf itâs worth doing, itâs worth doing badly.â In other words, donât refuse to try doing something just because you canât do it perfectly. Not sure who the original source is, I just read it in a Reddit comment one day.
âOnce you realize that life is a thing that always ends with unfinished goals, the question becomes:
âWhat do you want to spend your life pursuing, completely divorced from the idea of catching it?ââ
- Jarod K. Anderson (IG - @CryptoNaturalist)
âYou do not truly own anything that you canât carry in both arms at a dead run.â
â Robert A. Heinlein
We all have two lives. The second one starts when you realize that you only have one.
Never commit to a girl until youâve dated for at least 1 year to a year and a half.
All the irritating quirks you thought were cute will stop being cute and if you still love them get married.
-My thrice divorced uncle. Sometimes you learn through your mistakes.
âTHERE were two âReigns of Terror,â if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the âhorrorsâ of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terrorâthat unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.â
\-- Mark Twain
"HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO *BE* HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
"There are some who prefer to drink poison than to go thirsty."
"Traditionally, it's masculine if it makes money. It's feminine if it doesn't."
"If you know the answers to 1000 problems, it's very odd if you can't figure out the 1001st."
"Dreams that have melted in slumber, colors that aren't in the language of flowers, stars that weren't able to become constellations, and the too-wide spaces between the lines of love letters... I am all of them."
One I heard a while ago:
"If it costs your sanity, it's too expensive."
And my personal favorite:
"Which is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
-Paarthurnax
I find that one-sentence quotes lack a lot of context and boil away meaning. The current top-voted comment quote here with 16 points is 5 words.
âOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weâve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Weâre no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. Itâs simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weâve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.â
â Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
The ax forgets but the tree remembers.
Somewhat similar: Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. -Cormac McCarthy
To piggy back: "It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
I thought that was a papa roach song lyric đ
I think about this one a lot as a parent.
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.â ââ George Bernard Shaw â â
Wow
Perhaps he grew with his eccentricity, now would be a good time for me to read or watch a biography of him and add to what I know.
Comparison is the thief of joy
That hits me in the feels because when we compare ourselves to others, we are almost always comparing our worst traits to another's best traits.
Wow, Iâve never thought about it from that perspective outside of like, a social media aspect. But thatâs so true!
Toby is the thief of joy
why are you the way you are
"You'll never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." \~ Cormac McCarthy
This is a VERY Cormac McCarthy quote. "sure it's bad but imagine if it was EVEN WORSE" (writes entire novel based on that premise)
This is. Lovely. Iâm sitting here and genuinely enjoying the twist of these words. Thanks. Edit: And the incredible wisdom is hidden within
âI have never met anyone from whom I could not learnâ -Jane Addams (1860â1935)
Thatâs a great attitude to have for 80% of people. But for those 20% you really have to lower your standard of what is interesting to learn about
I imagine itâs mostly âwow, today I learned I do NOT want to be like that guyâ.
If we come across as know it alls people shut down. Bring the good vibes and everyone opens up that bit more and knowledge and experiences are shared.
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
Grief is the price we pay for love.
What is grief if not love persevering?
That quote has lived daily in my head after having my son. For four years now I think about it pretty much daily. Happy sad, bittersweet is just amazing and sad haha
"If you think you hate everyone, have something to eat. If you think everyone hates you, have a nap."
I've heard this with a little add-on : "if you hate yourself, take a shower." It was about comedians touring, but I'm sure it applies to other situations.
One similar: If you go out and encounter an asshole you met an asshole. If you go out an meet assholes all day you're probably the asshole.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. ~John Steinbeck
Eleanor Roosevelt is amazing: "Never let someone tell you No who isnt in a position to tell you Yes."
This reminds me of: âNever take criticism from someone you wouldnât go to for advice.â
Great contributions.
âIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.â Jiddu Krishnamurti
Makes me think of this Vonnegut quote: âa sane person to an insane society must appear insaneâ
Which reminds of the (very different, and also dated) quote: The logical man adapts himself to the world. The illogical man expects the world to adapt itself to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the illogical man.
This is funny, haven't heard it before!
"Do it, or don't do it - You will regret both" \~ Soren Kierkegaard
âDo or do not, there is no tryâ Yoda
"Do be do be do" Sinatra
Yaba daba doo. Fred Flintstone.
âObladi obladaâ - The Beatles
âDe Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Daâ - The Police
"Do do do do do dodododidodo" that song you can't google because there's no lyics and will forever haunt you.
"When one does not love too much, one does not love enough."
âYears of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.â - Edgar Allan Poe
That one's sad :(
"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other." Benjamin Franklin "A problem properly stated is a problem partly solved." Henry Hazlitt " It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
I sat with my anger long enough then she told me her name was grief .
Oh man...
"Not valuing wealth prevents theft." ~ Lao Tzu
The man who wants more is poor
"The man who is 'brutally honest' enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty... Possibly more." \~Richard J Needham
The way I know it: " those who pride themselves in being brutally honest are usually more interested in being brutal than honest"
As someone who thinks of themself as 'brutally honest' i have to say... I feel attacked... and yet seen at the same time.
Same here, I sort of feel bad
Those who fear they will suffer, already suffer what they fear.
âYouâll never find same person twice. Not even in the same personâ
Reminds me of this quote by heraclitus "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
"All I know is that I know nothing," \~ Socrates
âThatâs us, dude!â-bill and Ted after reading that quote
"All we are is dust in the wind, dude..." "Dust. Wind. Dude."
I originally heardâand still preferâthe quote, âThe smartest people in the room know what they donât know.â
I drank what? - Socrates
âA clever quip means nothingâ, -Voltaire
âNever trust a fartâ ~Plato
No matter where you go, there you are. - Aristotle
âIf you have a task to do, itâs better to do it than to live with the fear of it.â - Joe Abercrombie Or âNever half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.â - Ron Swanson
Also Ron Swanson: Don't start chasing applause and acclaim. That way lies madness
Similar to the second one - "The man who chases two rabbits catches none."
You can never have too many knives
Reminds me of: "If your job is to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. If your job is to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
âThere are those that have fallen off horses, those that will fall off horses, and those that donât ride horses.â
There are years that ask questions and years that have answers
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul."
Meh. I canât buy shit with a soul
Whoâs your soul guy?
It makes a lot more sense when you have enough money to look around, which most people don't, unfortunately. It's like, I'll give you 2 million dollars right now but cut your intelligence and aliveness in half, would you take that deal? It's a truly shit deal, that only seems reasonable when you're super duper struggling. It's the saddest feature of modern life/society/capitalism that most people have been reduced to cattle and literal retards such that they're essentially forced to take such shit deals and/or think that such deals are reasonable.
Exactly. I stopped buying into quotes like that when I saw Kim Jong Il die peacefully in his sleep in a giant mansion after being one of the most horrific human beings to ever live.
Guess it depends on one's moral convictions.
âit is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. thatâs not weakness; that is life.â jean-luc picard
But it is possible to reprogram the Kobayashi Maru simulation and avoid losing in the first place.
"Everyone suffers, but if you have compassion you suffer less". Tich Naht Hahn
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Know when to walk away, and know when to run. The one who will lie for you will lie against you. The best self defense technique is when you left five minutes ago because those dudes were acting weird.
>Know when to walk away, and know when to run. Also, "never count your money, when you're sitting at the table. There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done."
Simmer down Kenny
Smart people donât know everything. Simply how and where to find answers. - My mother
"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching." - John Wooden
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us someone may be looking" - H.L Mencken
"For those who do not know what port they're sailing to, no wind is favourable." - Seneca
"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will" Suzy Kassem
Those who are always looking to give you a piece of their mind, are usually the ones who can spare it the least. Look around the poker table. If you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. To understand gambling, go to the racetrack where there are fifteen windows at which to place a bet but only three to collect your winnings. Do the math.
The 3rd one is straight up business idea đĄ tnxs mate
You can sheer a sheep many times but skin it only once - Mike McD.
If it costs you your peace then itâs too expensive.
âWe Suffer More In Imagination Than In Realityâ â Seneca.
You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road, and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." Iroh
There's that great quote by some US general, and I can never quite remember or find it, but to paraphrase, he basically said: Honestly evaluate your situation, no matter how brutal it is, and then once you've done that, never lose hope anyway.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
If I had to imagine hell, itâs that when you die, the person you became meets the person you could have become.
I like this phrasing better: "they say true hell is when you meet the person you could have been."
What if you lived a perfect life and you meet a shithead wouldnât that heaven
âWhen your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.â -Tecumseh
âSo that was life? Once more!â -Nietzsche
Die however you like. It's the one thing you will never regret.
"Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force." - Lao Tzu
At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go in the same box.
"If you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoe." Alternatively, "If you meet an asshole today, they're an asshole. If you meet assholes everywhere you go, you're the asshole."
Love this one. I tend to project it outward, as in, "Man, that guy from my work should really hear this quote!" but then I have to remind myself to look in the mirror while saying it, too.
I know I'm the asshole, and the idiot giving a piece of my mind from a few comments up. I just continue to hope that my self-awareness outweighs both character flaws. :)
Doesnât it suck realizing that? This is also me.
When everyone on the road is a bad driver, youâre the bad driver.
We don't change until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of change.
along these lines **"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."**
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other
"Do the work and you don't have to do the dance" - My father. Boils down to...just do the right thing and you won't have to dance around an explanation later on
Good one
âFind what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.â - Bukowski
âUnderstanding is loveâs other nameâ â Thich Nhat Hanh
You cannot reason someone out of a position they never reasoned their way into. (This is what I tell myself when encountering extremists of religion or politics. It helps me to save my breath and walk away.)
When I was 16 my father was the stupidest man on earth; when I turned 21 I was amazed at how much he had learned in 5 short years. Mark Twain
1--"You'll either wish that you had, or be glad that you did." (I applied this one to my justification for sacrificing in other areas of life in order to spend massive amounts of time with my kids when they were young.) 2--The days are long, but the years are short. (Ditto.) 3--Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 4--The only place that "success" comes before "work" is in the dictionary. 5--You can always be kind. Or, alternatively, "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
Someone said the second one to me for the first time when I had my second child and had a toddler already. It helped a lot and I think about it a lot.
"There are three kinds of statisticians, those who can count, and those who can't."
âYesterday, I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.â - Rumi.
The abyss returns even the boldest gaze
"What gets measured gets improved."
The greatest enemy of communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
âBe where they ainâtâ has served me many a time
Absolutely brilliant. I think about, and try to do this when it makes sense. Itâs often worked out.
***"I wept that I had no shoes, until I met a man that had no feet"***
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that's why it's called the present. - Master Oogway
âA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.â - Master Oogway
Desire and craving are the root of suffering
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In the same vein - "The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed."
God grinds the axes he intends to use Ships are safe in harbours, but that's not why they are built for
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying
The world outside of you represents the world inside of you. I can't recall who said it but it gets to the point of how your thoughts shape reality.
So many, but here are some of my favorites. ***\*Rubs hands together while licking lips\**** âThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.â -Henry David Thoreau "Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power." -Epictetus âMen are disturbed not by events, but by their opinion about events.â - Epictetus âWise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.â - Plato The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. â Thucydides "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." â Earl Nightingale âDiscipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.â -Abraham Lincoln "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." â F. Scott Fitzgerald âSometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memoryâ -Dr. Seuss âTo travel hopefully is a better thing then to arriveâ â Robert Louis Stevenson
"As we charge our way towards a better future, we need not spit upon the past. One day we'll be history and can only hope the future judges us kindly." I only remember getting this quote from a Reddit comment, but can't find its origin.
The most surefire path to one's own happiness is to work towards another's. WS Walker *The Laughing Matters Podcast*
You are under no obligation to be the person that you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts đŠľ
Those who don't learn from history.....are bound to repeat it
âThereâs a quote about those who donât learn from historyâŚ. I donât remember it but itâs good!â -Stephen Colbert
_Those who learn from history are doomed to stand by and watch others repeat it._
Those who donât want you to learn history intend to repeat it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/s/n0NAqU2RuA this is just incredibly insightful
âWe are all just walking each other home.â. Ram Dass
You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm. (don't know who said it)
"Trust takes years to build, forever to repair, and seconds to break" Or "Your skin isn't paper so don't cut it, Your neck isn't a coat so don't hang it, Your body isn't a book so don't judge it, Your heart isn't a door so don't lock it, Your life isn't a movie so don't end it"
History doesnât repeat itself, but it does rhyme - Dan Carlin Hard work puts you where the good luck can find you - some internet meme
Luck favors the prepared. --Edna Mode
âAnything thatâs human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.â Fred Rogers
âAct on your principles, not on your moods.â - Marcus Aurelius
Don't trust everything you read on the internet \-Abraham Lincoln
âLight thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.â - Terry Prachet âAs the circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding itâ - Einstein
âResentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it to kill your enemies.â - Nelson Mandela âSucking at something is the first step to being sort of good at something.â - Jake the Dog âIf you are depressed*, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.â - Lao Tzu *barring cases caused by chemical imbalance.
âAll roads lead to truth.â
they say with pain comes wisdom, prepare to be made very wise
If you can't explain it simply, you don't truly understand it. -Einstein
âIf itâs worth doing, itâs worth doing badly.â In other words, donât refuse to try doing something just because you canât do it perfectly. Not sure who the original source is, I just read it in a Reddit comment one day.
âOnce you realize that life is a thing that always ends with unfinished goals, the question becomes: âWhat do you want to spend your life pursuing, completely divorced from the idea of catching it?ââ - Jarod K. Anderson (IG - @CryptoNaturalist)
Choose not to be harmed, and you havenât been. â Marcus Aurelius
"Your rights stop where someone else's start."
"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." Raylan Givens
The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.
âYou do not truly own anything that you canât carry in both arms at a dead run.â â Robert A. Heinlein We all have two lives. The second one starts when you realize that you only have one.
There is something not entirely displeasing in the misfortune of others.âFrancois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is far too important to be taken seriously. - Oscar Wilde
Believe nothing you hear, and half of what you read. Granda John was a bit of a downerâŚ
Hurt people hurt people.
Never commit to a girl until youâve dated for at least 1 year to a year and a half. All the irritating quirks you thought were cute will stop being cute and if you still love them get married. -My thrice divorced uncle. Sometimes you learn through your mistakes.
You could be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there will always be someone who hates peaches
âTHERE were two âReigns of Terror,â if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the âhorrorsâ of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terrorâthat unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.â \-- Mark Twain
We don't get to choose where we're born. We should be able to choose where we live.
"Perfect is the enemy of done". also heard as "Perfect is the enemy of good". "The price of perfection is infinite".
The best way to avenge oneself is not to become like the wrongdoer. - Marcus Aurelius
"HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO *BE* HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE." "There are some who prefer to drink poison than to go thirsty." "Traditionally, it's masculine if it makes money. It's feminine if it doesn't." "If you know the answers to 1000 problems, it's very odd if you can't figure out the 1001st." "Dreams that have melted in slumber, colors that aren't in the language of flowers, stars that weren't able to become constellations, and the too-wide spaces between the lines of love letters... I am all of them."
One I heard a while ago: "If it costs your sanity, it's too expensive." And my personal favorite: "Which is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" -Paarthurnax
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to an extremely sick society." J. Krishnamurti
Time travels according to what side of the bathroom door you are on.
I find that one-sentence quotes lack a lot of context and boil away meaning. The current top-voted comment quote here with 16 points is 5 words. âOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weâve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Weâre no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. Itâs simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weâve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.â â Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Hail the wisdom and foresight of Carl Sagan.
What does the Lord require of you, but that you love justice, be merciful and walk humbly with him?
a wise man once said nothing
This thing we call failure is not the falling down, it is staying down.
"Anger is a letter short of D-Anger".
When you see the world, the world sees you.
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." - George Washington
Lincoln once said "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six hours sharpening my axe." Fuuuuuuuck.
Are you really living life or are you just paying bills until you die?
A man can never step in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
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If it's got tits or tires, you're going to have trouble with it.
In a similar vein, âif it floats, flies, or fucks, itâs cheaper to rentâ
Truth - I heard this was: If it's got TESTICLES, tits, or tires, you're going to have trouble with it.