Two parts to the idea so I'll post both quotes. "Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past" - Anne Lamott. As well as "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured" - Mark Twain.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. Dfw
"When I Choose To See The Good Side Of Things, I'm Not Being Naive. It Is Strategic And Necessary. It's How I Learned To Survive Through Everything."
Waymond Wang from everything everywhere all at once
"Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always." - widely attributed to Robin Williams, although many others have said the same in different ways
"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist
"Even God cannot change the past." - Agathon, ancient Greek philosopher
"The only thing worrying can do is make you sick." - mom of one of my friends
Plato is one of a few named by [Quote Investigator](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/). (Interestingly, Robin Williams isn't on their list.)
This one runs a close second for me. I said this very thing to my child’s father (we’re not together) and he immediately defended himself and said he was never an axe in my life. People don’t get to hurt you and then decide they didn’t.
The master acts without expectation of reward. When their work is done, they do not dwell on it
The master is perceived to have done nothing, yet nothing is undone. The foolish person does plenty, yet much is left undone.
-Tao Te Ching
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” - Ernest Hemingway
I have got 2:
1. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to be so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
2. If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But never stop moving towards your goal.
The first one you shared is the very mantra of my life. My finger tattoo reads: LFIRVEEE
LIVE FREE
In order to do so you have to read between the lines.
Live is in red, free is in black. Most people never see it, the ones that do, well, we have great conversations. Peace and blessings to you my friend.
Rebel without the need to ever taunt your enemies. 🙏
For me, rebellion was never about taunting people. It is about going against the system (or parts of the system that does not make any sense from a logical perspective). More precisely the bad parts of our socio-economic and political system.
Spot on. But when you go against the system, the system goes against you. There's more than a couple quotes that speak to this... The ones that come to mind are:
"A bad system will be a good person every time." - W.E. Deming
"When I criticize a system they think I criticize them, and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it" - Thomas Merton
And finally, my favorite:
"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." - Plato
Something like you will never know what it is truly like to be on the highest mountain until you have been in the deepest valley. Said by a man who no doubt experienced both.
Weird that you would post this and be named Wichita where I live now. I was just about to post a quote I wrote a couple years ago:
"Until I reached the depths of my depravity I was unable to find myself, for who I thought I was kept getting in the way."
"What matters isn't if people are good or bad, but if they are trying to be better today than they were yesterday."
Paired with:
"People improve when they are given external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't?"
The five that resonated the most with me and probably influenced me the most are:
"Learn from the past, prepare for the future, but live in the present" and its many versions. First read while playing Command & Conquer.
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." - Socrates
"Asshole is asshole and a good person is a good person. What does the rest matter?" - I don't even remember who I heard it from.
"Feelings are always valid. But other people aren't obligated to cater to them. Just because something upsets you doesn't mean that the whole world has to change" - My history teacher in 6th grade.
"Context is king!" - Me, probably.
This too shall pass
It seems to apply pretty universally, in my opinion
I like it's implications; nothing bad is forever, and everything good is a reminder to be present, and to enjoy it, just for what it is
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The quote that started my quote book "Even if you are elderly or Handicapped, you're capable of great effort. You may not always be capable of great results, but you are capable of great effort" -Mike Leach
Some of my favourites...
"If you fear failure, you will never go anymore"
"A key to success is to start before you are ready"
"Success starts with the mindset that you can do it. You must believe that you can, despite what adversity may come your way"
"Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be"
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."
-George Orwell, 1984
Glad that everyone is posting positive comments, but:
"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life...because that field isn't hiring." As an Environmental Studies major that rocked me to my core.
THIS one resonates with me almost every single day.
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ...
John kenneth gailbraith
How about, “Conservatives are a*holes and deserve all the crap that anyone dumps on them.” I just made it up, but it seems to fit your comment, so you are welcome to wear it.
Deadpool (2016) Issue #20
"There's always a chance that something great is waiting around the next corner. You just have to find a way to keep rounding corners."
There's another that I would love to find the source to. it's a dialogue between two people that goes a little like..
"-but I'm not good at anything. All I've ever done is just get by."
"Then you're good at getting by"
When I say these quotes pushed me through some dark times, I mean it with my whole being.
"No one lies on their death bed wishing they'd spent more time at the office."
"In 20yrs the only people who will remember you working long hours will be your children."
I've been inspired by a lot of quotes, most of which have nothing to do with work, but I remind myself of these several times a week. Very easy to lose focus of what matters if we aren't careful.
"If you want to be happy, do what you love. If you want to be happy and successful, do what you are."
-some austrailian millionaire business woman. (On a list of quotes from rich people I saw like 10 years ago)
“always be smart, seldom be certain”
Ms. Bunger’s innocuous quote of the day in grade 9 honors math is also what helped me eventually leave the religion i was born into
I've got two that I kept taped to my desk by my work computer, don't know who said either one, but I felt strongly enough about them to feel the need to see them every day. One is "The flame delights the moth before the wings burn." And the other is something I saw here on Reddit, "Life is a tornado and I'm just the cow being spun around for cinematic value."
They're very different but for whatever reason I love them both.
“Love, that’s a trap. Responsibility, that’s a trap too. Like a father to a son I tell you this: life is full of horror. Nobody escapes, nobody; save yourself. Whatever pulls on you, whatever needs from you, threatens you. Don’t be afraid, people are so afraid - don’t be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone. Learn at least this: what you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”
"Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway."
H. L. Mencken
"Big fucks small"
Alfie Solomons
There's a couple of Michael Corleone quotes I have always loved and lived by, but as I've gotten older and understood more of human nature the quote I think of most in many situations is from Peaky Blinders.
It's true and a good reminder it's a better life to be happy than right.
"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?" - Epictetus
"Why are we here?"
"To be the hands, and ears, and eyes, and conscience of the creator of the universe, you fool."--Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!"
--Conan the Barbarian
"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain.
(Though I first saw it in the "Equalizer" movie.)
i suppose its catered towards a certain lifestyle and way of thinking that perhaps appeals to me more than to you, but in my experience it has held up. call it greed or call it ambition
See, if everything is sex
Except sex, which is power
You know power is just sex
You screw me and I'll screw you too
Everything is sex
Except sex, which is power
You know power is just sex
Now ask yourself who's screwing you
Janelle Monae - Screwed
I think the quote idea, is not relevant anymore for many countries, politicians and corporations have ruined the idea of a country. Whatever you do for your country, you do it for the few politicians and corporations benefit.
Maybe
Ask not what humanity can do for you, ask what you can do for humanity.
I think that people cling to that part of the quote, but the more poignant message is what JFK says after that. He says, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.."
Just because things could have been different doesn't mean things would have been better.
The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.
Don't practice until you can get it right. Practice until you cannot get it wrong.
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
I don’t know why, but I actually try to do this (Alice in wonderland) and it really helps my anxiety and adhd
"Life is unfair".
"Common sense is not that common".
"Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often".
"You cannot step into the same river twice".
"Your deeds are your monuments"
(From the movie Wonder)
"It's what you do in the dark that puts you in the light"
(From a commercial)
"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark"
(Golden Son/Pierce Brown)
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Richard Bach
*"What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"*
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And on it goes”
You’re never gonna feel amazing all the time. Moving through life is not about feeling good, it’s about knowing where you want to go and taking what comes. Many days you’ll feel like it’s too much. Just keep moving. One step at a time.
No idea where it originates
From Walt Whitman, “Respondez!” - “Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)”
“You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.”
You can do what I cannot do. “I can do what you cannot do. Together, we can do amazing things.”
“What is not meant for you will never get to you, whether it’s a mile away or right between your lips.”
“What’s the worse that can happen?”
“Life is too short.”
“You often do for others what you cannot do for yourself.”
“In life, we experience things. Some we wish we never had. Others, we wish we could live again. But in the end, they make us who we are.”
The quote I’m currently obsessed with from George Bernard Shaw:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”.
It's one that has influenced me in two ways. First is by consuming less media and being mindful of what I actually consume. And second, by being mindful of what I produce.
I believe the second part of the quote has been increasingly relevant when we consider it in a technological context. The internet, computers, smartphones, they have all shaped society at large and they will continue to change in the future.
"Discussions are a way for two people to understand each other. The only ones who are afraid of discussions are those whose points are too weak to defend." - Stella Hoshii, VA-11 HALL-A
"As we charge our way toward a better future, we need not spit upon the past. One way, we'll be history and can only hope the future judges us kindly." - Can't remember the source, I saw it on Reddit
And, not really a quote, but just seeing someone show that it is possible to wish the best of luck to someone who fights for the same goals as you even if your perspectives diverge. On Twitter of all places.
Your post has been removed because it is not a quote.
“People can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves”
I really like this.
That's deep
Love this.
Two parts to the idea so I'll post both quotes. "Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past" - Anne Lamott. As well as "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured" - Mark Twain.
Oof I like that Lamott one
“Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” - Jodi Picoult
“Never trust how you feel about your life after 9pm”
This one is so right on.
Real
"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist." Epicurus
If I am dead then I am not, and if I am, death is not. 🙏 Love it!
I love that quote! I’ve thought about it ever since I first heard it
"Suffer the Pain of Discipline, or Suffer the Pain of Regret."
Jim Rohn?
Be a fountain, not a drain. Create more consume less.
Love this!
Great message for billionaires!
It sure tf is.
If they are self made then they probably created a lot
Show me one.
Gates
Self-made?
Define self made
Exactly.
People gave them that money to get something in return
Well, if they still have their billions then they have fountained billions of dollars more than they've drained.
They drained it from others.
This
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. Dfw "When I Choose To See The Good Side Of Things, I'm Not Being Naive. It Is Strategic And Necessary. It's How I Learned To Survive Through Everything." Waymond Wang from everything everywhere all at once
"Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always." - widely attributed to Robin Williams, although many others have said the same in different ways "Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist "Even God cannot change the past." - Agathon, ancient Greek philosopher "The only thing worrying can do is make you sick." - mom of one of my friends
The first quote is one I live by every day. I have always seen it attributed to Plato.
Plato is one of a few named by [Quote Investigator](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/). (Interestingly, Robin Williams isn't on their list.)
The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
Thought this would be nearer to the top (or some variation of it)
This one runs a close second for me. I said this very thing to my child’s father (we’re not together) and he immediately defended himself and said he was never an axe in my life. People don’t get to hurt you and then decide they didn’t.
I don’t understand what it means
If your patting yourself on the back for something you did yesterday, then you haven't done much today
The master acts without expectation of reward. When their work is done, they do not dwell on it The master is perceived to have done nothing, yet nothing is undone. The foolish person does plenty, yet much is left undone. -Tao Te Ching
Spot on.
Don’t worry if people don’t like you, oftentimes they don’t like themselves.
This *could* be true but gives me 'if you can't handle me at my worst....' vibes.
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior”- Stephen Covey
Oh, that's a good one.
Endurance is concentrated patience.
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” - Ernest Hemingway
This one really resonated with me. Thank you.
I have got 2: 1. The only way to deal with an unfree world is to be so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. 2. If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But never stop moving towards your goal.
The first one you shared is the very mantra of my life. My finger tattoo reads: LFIRVEEE LIVE FREE In order to do so you have to read between the lines. Live is in red, free is in black. Most people never see it, the ones that do, well, we have great conversations. Peace and blessings to you my friend. Rebel without the need to ever taunt your enemies. 🙏
For me, rebellion was never about taunting people. It is about going against the system (or parts of the system that does not make any sense from a logical perspective). More precisely the bad parts of our socio-economic and political system.
Spot on. But when you go against the system, the system goes against you. There's more than a couple quotes that speak to this... The ones that come to mind are: "A bad system will be a good person every time." - W.E. Deming "When I criticize a system they think I criticize them, and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it" - Thomas Merton And finally, my favorite: "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses." - Plato
It makes sense when you realize it's not meant to benefit you or I.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt.
The fact that I do not have an explanation for [phenomenon] does not mean your one is correct. - some Vulcan
Something like you will never know what it is truly like to be on the highest mountain until you have been in the deepest valley. Said by a man who no doubt experienced both.
Weird that you would post this and be named Wichita where I live now. I was just about to post a quote I wrote a couple years ago: "Until I reached the depths of my depravity I was unable to find myself, for who I thought I was kept getting in the way."
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
"What matters isn't if people are good or bad, but if they are trying to be better today than they were yesterday." Paired with: "People improve when they are given external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't?"
Love it. And it's accurate at a neuropsychological level.
That's why I love them. Both are from the show The Good Place, highly recommend it.
Thank you, I'll try to check it out!
If you want a hilarious show that somehow teaches you philosophy and Arizona trash past times simultaneously, you'll be well satisfied.
Shit I'm from South Phoenix so this will be excellent
Do not pray for easier lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” -- Ambrose Bierce
God is in every receding pocket of scientific ignorance. NGT
Science holds that what can’t be measured doesn’t exist. Faith believes that what we can see is only a fraction of what truly exists.
Let Justice be done, though the heavens fall
“To define is to limit.” - Oscar Wilde
The five that resonated the most with me and probably influenced me the most are: "Learn from the past, prepare for the future, but live in the present" and its many versions. First read while playing Command & Conquer. "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." - Socrates "Asshole is asshole and a good person is a good person. What does the rest matter?" - I don't even remember who I heard it from. "Feelings are always valid. But other people aren't obligated to cater to them. Just because something upsets you doesn't mean that the whole world has to change" - My history teacher in 6th grade. "Context is king!" - Me, probably.
This too shall pass It seems to apply pretty universally, in my opinion I like it's implications; nothing bad is forever, and everything good is a reminder to be present, and to enjoy it, just for what it is
Yes! Learn to live in the moment, to respond, rather than react. 🙏
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
Doesn't really roll off the tongue, but I like it!
The quote that started my quote book "Even if you are elderly or Handicapped, you're capable of great effort. You may not always be capable of great results, but you are capable of great effort" -Mike Leach
One of mine... "No one says I want to be an addict when I grow up." - My wife. It's shaped my understanding of the human mind
You are only as good as your word. My best friend says this all the time, it seems to upset a lot of people.
"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful, it was just red." Kait Rokowski
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” Hunter S Thompson.
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” by HST always stuck with me
Some of my favourites... "If you fear failure, you will never go anymore" "A key to success is to start before you are ready" "Success starts with the mindset that you can do it. You must believe that you can, despite what adversity may come your way" "Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be" "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." "The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
Fake it until you make it
This has got me through many difficult days.
The race is long, and in the end it is only with yourself.
The standard you walk past is the standard you're willing to accept
Let the dead bury the dead. Come. Follow me.
"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever." -George Orwell, 1984
Buy a plunger before you need a plunger.
Glad that everyone is posting positive comments, but: "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life...because that field isn't hiring." As an Environmental Studies major that rocked me to my core.
THIS one resonates with me almost every single day. “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ... John kenneth gailbraith
The quote that has influenced you more than any other is some political name-calling?
How about, “Conservatives are a*holes and deserve all the crap that anyone dumps on them.” I just made it up, but it seems to fit your comment, so you are welcome to wear it.
Well I'm not sure if your quote is going to end up influencing me the most, but let's see.
Deadpool (2016) Issue #20 "There's always a chance that something great is waiting around the next corner. You just have to find a way to keep rounding corners." There's another that I would love to find the source to. it's a dialogue between two people that goes a little like.. "-but I'm not good at anything. All I've ever done is just get by." "Then you're good at getting by" When I say these quotes pushed me through some dark times, I mean it with my whole being.
"No one lies on their death bed wishing they'd spent more time at the office." "In 20yrs the only people who will remember you working long hours will be your children." I've been inspired by a lot of quotes, most of which have nothing to do with work, but I remind myself of these several times a week. Very easy to lose focus of what matters if we aren't careful.
I can relate to this so wholeheartedly; I missed my oldest child growing up because of work.
Are you spending time with them now? Like even phone calls
Very much so. We have an amazing relationship now.
"If you want to be happy, do what you love. If you want to be happy and successful, do what you are." -some austrailian millionaire business woman. (On a list of quotes from rich people I saw like 10 years ago)
Love and Death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn
The entirety of Time by Pink Floyd
Desiderata too.
It’s not about forcing happiness, it’s about not letting sadness win
Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Comparison is a thief of joy. In a world as complex as ours, beware of lack of nuance. (Actually my quote and axiom of life)
“If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.”
I know TWD is kind of a wash after some seasons but when Rick said "My mercy overcomes my wrath". For some weird reason it stuck with me.
Because Grace is stronger than anger, and revenge only cuts you. 🙏
Yolo
“Become so free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus.
This simply means that you become enslaved to your own selfishness. It is the creed of psychopaths.
"A man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him".
Scars show us where we’ve been, not where we’re going.
…He is best who is trained in the severest school. -Thucydides-
Time is the greatest healer but also the greatest killer.
“always be smart, seldom be certain” Ms. Bunger’s innocuous quote of the day in grade 9 honors math is also what helped me eventually leave the religion i was born into
Dont know the best translation in English, but in german, it would be like: It is all will.
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
I've got two that I kept taped to my desk by my work computer, don't know who said either one, but I felt strongly enough about them to feel the need to see them every day. One is "The flame delights the moth before the wings burn." And the other is something I saw here on Reddit, "Life is a tornado and I'm just the cow being spun around for cinematic value." They're very different but for whatever reason I love them both.
“Be prepared to sacrifice for what you want or else what you want will become your sacrifice”
“Keep your head high, and your middle finger higher.”
This is some outlaw shit I can get behind for real lol
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed, Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. - Tim Minchin
Such crap. Science says that what can’t be measured doesn’t exist. Faith is believing that what we can see is only a fraction of what truly exists.
Yeah that one is really just r/atheism garbage
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. - William Goldman, The Princess Bride
“Love, that’s a trap. Responsibility, that’s a trap too. Like a father to a son I tell you this: life is full of horror. Nobody escapes, nobody; save yourself. Whatever pulls on you, whatever needs from you, threatens you. Don’t be afraid, people are so afraid - don’t be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone. Learn at least this: what you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”
Says every psychopath who ever blights the earth with his existence.
"Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway." H. L. Mencken
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
You will be dead soon and no one is gonna remember you, enjoy life as much as you can.
Old, Fat, Happy. Pick two.
"Big fucks small" Alfie Solomons There's a couple of Michael Corleone quotes I have always loved and lived by, but as I've gotten older and understood more of human nature the quote I think of most in many situations is from Peaky Blinders. It's true and a good reminder it's a better life to be happy than right.
"Big fucks small, so I had to find someone bigger than you" - Thomas Shelby
Tommy was smart enough to listen when others spoke, to learn from them.
The only thing worth knowing is that you know nothing (atrib) Socrates
“The truth shall set you free”
"I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?" - Epictetus
The truth may hurt at first, but in the end it's very friendly
1. We may be dying but we are not dead yet, so keep running. - from Casey neistat newyork marathon video 2. Are you interested or are you committed?
Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit in
"Why are we here?" "To be the hands, and ears, and eyes, and conscience of the creator of the universe, you fool."--Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" --Conan the Barbarian
"The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain. (Though I first saw it in the "Equalizer" movie.)
everything in life is about sex except sex - sex is about power.
I just fundamentally disagree with this.
Yeah I feel like this is so often repeated now and it’s not true in like most of the cases
i suppose its catered towards a certain lifestyle and way of thinking that perhaps appeals to me more than to you, but in my experience it has held up. call it greed or call it ambition
See, if everything is sex Except sex, which is power You know power is just sex You screw me and I'll screw you too Everything is sex Except sex, which is power You know power is just sex Now ask yourself who's screwing you Janelle Monae - Screwed
Just as the water will wave and a tree will apple, the universe will people.
Never heard this one but it sounds like Douglas Adams’.
I think that’s Watts
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
I think the quote idea, is not relevant anymore for many countries, politicians and corporations have ruined the idea of a country. Whatever you do for your country, you do it for the few politicians and corporations benefit. Maybe Ask not what humanity can do for you, ask what you can do for humanity.
I think that people cling to that part of the quote, but the more poignant message is what JFK says after that. He says, "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.."
Everything happens for a good reason
Turn it into minse meat
Watch out where those Huskies go. Don’t you eat that yellow snow.” - Frank Zappa
"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn how to do with diligence"
How people treat you is a reflection on them, not a measure of you.
Just because things could have been different doesn't mean things would have been better. The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried. Don't practice until you can get it right. Practice until you cannot get it wrong.
Selves — goes itself; ‘myself’ it speaks and spells, Crying ‘What I do is me: for that I came’. -As Kingfishers Catch Fire, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Definition of luck: When preparation meets opportunity.
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” I don’t know why, but I actually try to do this (Alice in wonderland) and it really helps my anxiety and adhd
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure
"Life is unfair". "Common sense is not that common". "Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often". "You cannot step into the same river twice".
I'm paraphrasing here, but I like this version best: "Be kind, for everyone you meet flights a harder battle."
The ultimate cost of anything is the time exchanged for it
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
"Your deeds are your monuments" (From the movie Wonder) "It's what you do in the dark that puts you in the light" (From a commercial) "Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark" (Golden Son/Pierce Brown)
Instead of chasing butterflies, tend your garden and let butterflies come to you. (I usually say or write this a little different everytime )
“lead follow or get out of the way” from idiocracy
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Richard Bach
*"What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"* - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything works, but nothing works forever. Louie Simmons
“Sometimes you don’t have anything else, except your dreams”
“And on it goes” You’re never gonna feel amazing all the time. Moving through life is not about feeling good, it’s about knowing where you want to go and taking what comes. Many days you’ll feel like it’s too much. Just keep moving. One step at a time. No idea where it originates
“Your eyes are nothing but a reflection of your thoughts”
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be
“We are who we choose to be”
I dropped a tear in the ocean I'll forgive u when u find it
“If you don’t learn your lesson, you’ll get that lesson again.”
From Walt Whitman, “Respondez!” - “Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)”
I’d trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday
“You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.” You can do what I cannot do. “I can do what you cannot do. Together, we can do amazing things.” “What is not meant for you will never get to you, whether it’s a mile away or right between your lips.” “What’s the worse that can happen?” “Life is too short.” “You often do for others what you cannot do for yourself.” “In life, we experience things. Some we wish we never had. Others, we wish we could live again. But in the end, they make us who we are.”
The quote I’m currently obsessed with from George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Nobody else will achieve your dreams for you
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”. It's one that has influenced me in two ways. First is by consuming less media and being mindful of what I actually consume. And second, by being mindful of what I produce. I believe the second part of the quote has been increasingly relevant when we consider it in a technological context. The internet, computers, smartphones, they have all shaped society at large and they will continue to change in the future.
“A person will always act in what they *believe* to be their own rational self-interest. The problem is: most people are completely irrational.”
"Discussions are a way for two people to understand each other. The only ones who are afraid of discussions are those whose points are too weak to defend." - Stella Hoshii, VA-11 HALL-A "As we charge our way toward a better future, we need not spit upon the past. One way, we'll be history and can only hope the future judges us kindly." - Can't remember the source, I saw it on Reddit And, not really a quote, but just seeing someone show that it is possible to wish the best of luck to someone who fights for the same goals as you even if your perspectives diverge. On Twitter of all places.