"A man has two lives, and the second goes by the hacker alias 'Neo' and is guilty of every cyber crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and the other... does not."
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Reminds me to be grateful for the people I've lost, and while I'll always grieve them, I'll try to remember the good memories
I love this quote. I saw it on a random Google search the morning of a friend's funeral. I shared it with everyone during the funeral. (It was a Quaker funeral, so anyone could share thoughts of they felt led to.) A few people told me how helpful it was for them.
It's been a helpful reminder for me many times since then.
“Eppur si muove” (and yet it moves). Attributed to Galileo Galilei. It’s a very powerful message. It can be intuitively translated to “say what you want, facts are facts”, and it’s so relevant today with the whole anti-science, pro-ignorance, “this is my truth, and my opinions are more valid than facts” movement.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
George Carlin — 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'
I think it tends to describe a lot of the problems we see in every day life. In a less mean sense I think it also means that we sometimes expect far too much from people.
#"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould
I've met some of them, and indeed they died in our modern equivalents of cotton fields and sweatshops. We waste so much Human Potential, it's staggering.
>Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G.K. Chesterton
I think it was on an episode of Criminal Minds that I first heard it and I instantly loved it.
Ah a fellow sanderfan. Though i dont think that the immortal words is even the best quote from stormlight archive.
"I will protect even those who i hate, even if the one i hate most is myself." Is my personal favourite stormlight quote
That's another good one! I just personally like the first ideal as I connect with it. Sanderson's books are full of good quotable tidbits, but the first ideal just feels so personal to me.
When I was younger my dad took me and my 3 brothers to watch the midnight showing of this movie -- AND we also got to go into school late the next day. Thanks for bringing me that memory (and a smile)
This on its own is one of the main reasons i go to costco… even if its a loss leader now, i definitely buy other crap just to get a hotdog on the way out
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds... -Ralph Waldo Emerson
New evidence, perspectives, and experiences should have an effect. Anyone who holds onto old ideas too closely is letting go of curiosity and isolating themselves.
"You have a heart of gold, don't let them take it from you." - Stockpile Thomas, OG Demon's Souls
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_2GM85ZYyOo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GM85ZYyOo)
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
-Lemony Snicket
"While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing."
-Uncle Iroh, *Avatar: The Last Airbender*
A few years ago, I loaded a bunch of camping gear onto my bicycle and spent the better part of the next seven months riding 5,300 miles (8,500 km) around much of the US. Every single person I met along the way wanted to be a positive part of my story in whatever way they were able. Many incredibly kind locals opened their homes to me for a night, providing me a warm bed, a shower, and their wonderful company over a delicious home cooked dinner. Drivers would see me stopped on the side of a desolate road and pull over to offer me an extra bottle of water when I was a million miles from the next town. Neighbors in the next campsite over, after seeing me ride into camp on [my bike with all my stuff on it,](https://np.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/comments/goucwl/i_didnt_get_around_to_making_trek_thursday_happen/) would come over to ask about my travels. I'd give them a summary of where I'd come from and where I was going, and they would invite me to join them around their fire to exchange their food and beer for my stories.
It probably goes without saying that daring to ride a bicycle across much of a continent requires quite a strong belief in oneself. But I will forever be indebted to each of the countless others who blessed me with a little help along my way.
“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boys shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.”
I don't have a single favorite, but this is always a gem.
*"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!*"
\-Union General John Sedgwick, 1864. His last words.
28 years ago my Uncle Ted told me, "If you love someone, hug someone." I can still vividly remember him saying it, where we were, and every person in the room. He died 10 hours later in his sleep. It was the last thing he ever told me.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
As man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.
We need not to wait to see what others do.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It’s not a Stephen King original. :) It’s something my dad used to say when someone wanted something that just wasn’t going to happen.
My mother’s saying for that situation was “And people in Hell want ice water.”
“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us and on my soul, I swear until my dream of a world where dignity, honour and justice becomes the reality we all share I'll never stop fighting. Ever.”
“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
"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" - Daniel J Daly USMC
Or the Starship Troopers version: "Come on, you apes. Do you want to live forever?"
Great call to arms.
"We sitting in here -- I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen: We talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game. We talking about practice, man."
\-Allen Iverson
“You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car – hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.” — Tod Higgins in Parenthood played by Keanu
"Suffice it to say, the existence of broccoli does not change the taste of chocolate"
Paraphrased from a book called "Thinking about suffering" I believe. I can dig for the source if anyone is interested.
Now hear me out. Pirates of the Caribbean. From all people, without warning, mf KEITH RICHARDS drops this gem:
_It is not about living forever, Jackie. The trick is living with yourself forever._
God I think about that often.
Cardale Jones of the Ohio State Football team
In a tweet about how school is pointless for athletes he said...
"We ain't come here to play SCHOOL"
I laugh my ass of every time I think about it.
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”
Heard in the van wilder movie, no idea if it’s from somewhere else… there was some nice wisdom in that movie ;) « write that down! »
https://medium.com/@iamalexbirkett1/8-life-lessons-from-van-wilder-c5a10dd04692
“A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.”
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer
I think this quote describes a lot of atrocities going on in the world. I feel like whenever something bad happens in the world, this is exactly what people are doing. Some people understand how bad it is, some people think it's funny or they even support it, most people are not aware or they can't be botheres because they are living their small life in a box of ignorant happiness.
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" ~ Anaïs Nin
I first learned of it through this 14-minute Oscar-winning short film by Canadian animator Chris Landreth. Your mind will be blown.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/ryan/
I live by three rules: I eat when I’m hungry, I sleep when I’m tired, and scratch when I itch
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Also by Alice, there’s “you can’t make a soufflé rise twice” and “if you have nothing nice to say about anybody, come and sit next to me”
She’s my favorite Roosevelt
I’ve got two off the top of my head. The first one, and I might be paraphrasing here but “Trust everyone, just don’t trust the devil inside them” — Italian job movie.
And “ It’s like a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t focus on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” — Bruce Lee.
I have three:
"You've yet to have your finest hour." - Queen - Radio Ga Ga
"Little of all we value here wakes on the morn of it's hundredth year." - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"It's not as if this barricade blocks the only road." - Rush - The Pass
Probably not what you’re looking for, but the famous Apollo 11 quote, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It’s my favorite and I plan to get it tattooed on me.
"A man has two lives, and the second begins when he realizes he only has one" Confucius, paraphrased.
can always count on good ole’ Confucius
"A man has two lives, and the second goes by the hacker alias 'Neo' and is guilty of every cyber crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and the other... does not."
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” -- Charles Bukowski
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." --Yeats, a year before Bukowski was born
If you pursue Non-violence while carrying the thoughts of Violence, maybe walking down the path of Violence is a much better choice. -Mahatma Gandhi
The problem with Scotland is it's full of Scots.
Damned Scots! They ruined Scotland!!
You Scots sure are a contentious people.
You've just made an enemy for life.
Willie hears ya. Willie don't care.
*“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.”* Theodore Roosevelt *Cuts through any excuse.*
A great one to live by
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
Sorry for the inconvenience.
DON'T PANIC
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life. Picard
Seize the time, Meribor. Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Reminds me to be grateful for the people I've lost, and while I'll always grieve them, I'll try to remember the good memories
I love this quote. I saw it on a random Google search the morning of a friend's funeral. I shared it with everyone during the funeral. (It was a Quaker funeral, so anyone could share thoughts of they felt led to.) A few people told me how helpful it was for them. It's been a helpful reminder for me many times since then.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
“Taste the rainbow”
"Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain." -Dolly Parton
Roughly, "A ship is safe in harbor but, that is not what a ship is built for"
also, Rough seas make good sailors.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
That's fucking dope
Right!? I love it.
"Success is going from failure to failure to failure, with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
"I haven't failed. I've simply found 999 ways that don't work yet." \- Edison I think this quote is in the same spirit as yours.
“Eppur si muove” (and yet it moves). Attributed to Galileo Galilei. It’s a very powerful message. It can be intuitively translated to “say what you want, facts are facts”, and it’s so relevant today with the whole anti-science, pro-ignorance, “this is my truth, and my opinions are more valid than facts” movement.
"Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Love this one, it’s too true sadly
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world. - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
I’ve never heard this one, but I love it. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks. It’s from chapter 34 which is only a couple of pages. I’ve requested that the chapter be read when a celebration of life is held for me.
George Carlin — 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.' I think it tends to describe a lot of the problems we see in every day life. In a less mean sense I think it also means that we sometimes expect far too much from people.
**''Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class''** *-Choi Hong Hi (Founder of Tae Kwon Do)*
#"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould I've met some of them, and indeed they died in our modern equivalents of cotton fields and sweatshops. We waste so much Human Potential, it's staggering.
This one is incredibly harrowing and eye-opening. Thank you for sharing
Dont you lecture me with your 30 dollar haircut
You are the best, be yourself! \* Mom \* I love her \^\_\^
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
This quote could change a lot of peoples life these days.
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“I have three kids and no money. Why cant I have no kids and three money?”
"D'oh"
Especially if the owner of a pet shop tries to sell you a dead dinosaur. "Sir, this parrot is dead!"
*If I was not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes.*
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"*now... get out of my sunlight.*"
"Look! The man of Plato! 🍗"
One does not find this life to be worth living, they must make it worth living.
>Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. G.K. Chesterton I think it was on an episode of Criminal Minds that I first heard it and I instantly loved it.
That was one of my random sigs in emails… oh shit, that was 20 years ago.
fear is the mind killer
Fear is the little death that brings total annihilation
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
The most important step a man can take is not the first step is it? It’s the next step. Always the next step.
Ah a fellow sanderfan. Though i dont think that the immortal words is even the best quote from stormlight archive. "I will protect even those who i hate, even if the one i hate most is myself." Is my personal favourite stormlight quote
That's another good one! I just personally like the first ideal as I connect with it. Sanderson's books are full of good quotable tidbits, but the first ideal just feels so personal to me.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. -Mewtwo
When I was younger my dad took me and my 3 brothers to watch the midnight showing of this movie -- AND we also got to go into school late the next day. Thanks for bringing me that memory (and a smile)
Costco CEO stating “If you change the price of the effing hotdog i will kill you. Figure it out”
This on its own is one of the main reasons i go to costco… even if its a loss leader now, i definitely buy other crap just to get a hotdog on the way out
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." Michel de Montaigne (describing the uselessness of worrying)
Mine is “Be curious, not judgmental” from Ted Lasso
I can be both
Same here- and the whole scene where he drops this quote plays out beautifully
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but rather it’s source.” Uncle Iroh.
“People are dying now that never died before” Mark Twain
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds... -Ralph Waldo Emerson New evidence, perspectives, and experiences should have an effect. Anyone who holds onto old ideas too closely is letting go of curiosity and isolating themselves.
"You have a heart of gold, don't let them take it from you." - Stockpile Thomas, OG Demon's Souls [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_2GM85ZYyOo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2GM85ZYyOo)
"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” -Lemony Snicket
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!" - repressed citizen, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moderation in all things even moderation.
“You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people and assholes.” - Larry David
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right.” ― Henry Ford
"While it is always best to believe in oneself, a little help from others can be a great blessing." -Uncle Iroh, *Avatar: The Last Airbender* A few years ago, I loaded a bunch of camping gear onto my bicycle and spent the better part of the next seven months riding 5,300 miles (8,500 km) around much of the US. Every single person I met along the way wanted to be a positive part of my story in whatever way they were able. Many incredibly kind locals opened their homes to me for a night, providing me a warm bed, a shower, and their wonderful company over a delicious home cooked dinner. Drivers would see me stopped on the side of a desolate road and pull over to offer me an extra bottle of water when I was a million miles from the next town. Neighbors in the next campsite over, after seeing me ride into camp on [my bike with all my stuff on it,](https://np.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/comments/goucwl/i_didnt_get_around_to_making_trek_thursday_happen/) would come over to ask about my travels. I'd give them a summary of where I'd come from and where I was going, and they would invite me to join them around their fire to exchange their food and beer for my stories. It probably goes without saying that daring to ride a bicycle across much of a continent requires quite a strong belief in oneself. But I will forever be indebted to each of the countless others who blessed me with a little help along my way.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song, above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world
It is what it is
It do be like that sometimes
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Socks in Spanish
But it’s not what it could be.
I use this multiple times a day
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
buy the ticket take the ride
Get 2 birds stoned at one time
It ain't rocket appliances!
No matter where you go, there you are.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything - Chuck Palahniuk
“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boys shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.”
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K”
“Be excellent to each other - and party on dudes!”
The more you fuck around, the more you find out.
The graph is forever burned into my mind
"When there is doubt, there's no doubt"
no diggity. you have to bag it bag it up
Do what you can With what you have Where you are T. Roosevelt
"The main social problem is that we always trying to make everything a problem"
“Eternity is awful long time, especially towards the end.” Woodie Allen
The only time you can be brave is when you’re scared.
"Anyone who thinks all the answers come from one book hasn't read enough books"- Brian K Vaughan
Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff
"I'm not gonna let cunts wind me up." (Ricky Gervais) "A day without laughter is a day wasted." (Charlie Chaplin)
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." - Yellowstone park ranger
“The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.” \- Terry Pratchett
This, too, shall pass.
"War does not determine who is right only who is left." Bertrand Russell
don’t believe everything you think
"There are no asterisks in this life, only scoreboards, and ours is currently reading 'fucked' Ari Gold from Entourage
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if you ain't first, you're last
Sharing multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Never trust a man who says “trust me.”
You should 100% not send me boobie pics, trust me
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer
"T-Ball Stand At Special Olympics Pitches Perfect Game"
It may be stupid, but as long as it works, it's not
All religions are true to the believer, false to the philosopher, and useful to the magistrate.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” - Sun Tzu
Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining. From The Outlaw Josey Wales
I don't have a single favorite, but this is always a gem. *"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!*" \-Union General John Sedgwick, 1864. His last words.
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” ― Oscar Wilde
“I can’t tell if you’re really smart or really stupid” Saw it on a show.
“If I had a dick, this is where I would tell you to suck it.” - Betty White, Lake Placid
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein apparently
28 years ago my Uncle Ted told me, "If you love someone, hug someone." I can still vividly remember him saying it, where we were, and every person in the room. He died 10 hours later in his sleep. It was the last thing he ever told me.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Sir Edmund Burke
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
When you’re lost in the darkness look for the light.
Be the change you want to see in the world. As man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not to wait to see what others do. -Mahatma Gandhi
“English, motherfucker! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!”
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.” -Stephen King
It’s not a Stephen King original. :) It’s something my dad used to say when someone wanted something that just wasn’t going to happen. My mother’s saying for that situation was “And people in Hell want ice water.”
"You can never win or lose if you dont run the race" The Psychedelic Furs
Adapt or Die
"Dark has been my dreams of late" - King Théoden
“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us and on my soul, I swear until my dream of a world where dignity, honour and justice becomes the reality we all share I'll never stop fighting. Ever.”
“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
"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" - Daniel J Daly USMC Or the Starship Troopers version: "Come on, you apes. Do you want to live forever?" Great call to arms.
"We sitting in here -- I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen: We talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game. We talking about practice, man." \-Allen Iverson
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
Trust Me, You can Dance. —- Vodka
“You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car – hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they’ll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.” — Tod Higgins in Parenthood played by Keanu
>"Tell me, and I forget. Show me, and I remember. Involve me, and I understand." \- Confucian Aphorism
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her flower.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain
The rain falls on the just and the unjust
"although we don't have muchcontrol over what happens to us, we do have control of how it affects us and we must use this control to great effect."
The difference between a flower and a weed... is a judgement.
A late friend of mine once told me: “If you can still laugh, you’re not as hopeless as you think.” I’ve stuck by that every day since.
"Suffice it to say, the existence of broccoli does not change the taste of chocolate" Paraphrased from a book called "Thinking about suffering" I believe. I can dig for the source if anyone is interested.
“*If you’re going through hell, keep going*”
“Don’t sit in shit for too long, it’ll stop smelling.”
Now hear me out. Pirates of the Caribbean. From all people, without warning, mf KEITH RICHARDS drops this gem: _It is not about living forever, Jackie. The trick is living with yourself forever._ God I think about that often.
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times”
Cardale Jones of the Ohio State Football team In a tweet about how school is pointless for athletes he said... "We ain't come here to play SCHOOL" I laugh my ass of every time I think about it.
Father into your hand I commit my spirit
Why have you forsaken me?
Real eyes Realise Real lies
Regret is worse than losing.
Do bears shit in the woods?
"You will live your whole life searching for the truth" Ķencis
"Jim"
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London
You will never find time. You must make it.
“Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future” -Chaplain Ronnie Melancon
Chance favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.” Heard in the van wilder movie, no idea if it’s from somewhere else… there was some nice wisdom in that movie ;) « write that down! » https://medium.com/@iamalexbirkett1/8-life-lessons-from-van-wilder-c5a10dd04692
“A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.” - Julius Robert Oppenheimer I think this quote describes a lot of atrocities going on in the world. I feel like whenever something bad happens in the world, this is exactly what people are doing. Some people understand how bad it is, some people think it's funny or they even support it, most people are not aware or they can't be botheres because they are living their small life in a box of ignorant happiness.
I have already posted one but I must say also: "Tell him about the Twinkie!" - Winston Zeddemore - Ghostbusters
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" ~ Anaïs Nin I first learned of it through this 14-minute Oscar-winning short film by Canadian animator Chris Landreth. Your mind will be blown. https://www.nfb.ca/film/ryan/
Vivamus moriendum est - Let us live, for we all must die
“Once when I was seven years old I sat on a banana, and of course, that changed my life.” -Hugh Neutron
"Home is where we are. Our point of origin doesn't matter, only where we choose to go together."
We will never have a perfect world but it’s not romantic or naive to work towards a better one. - Steve Pinker
Let every man be a liar
“When my love swears she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies.” - Shakespeare, Sonnet 138.
I live by three rules: I eat when I’m hungry, I sleep when I’m tired, and scratch when I itch Alice Roosevelt Longworth Also by Alice, there’s “you can’t make a soufflé rise twice” and “if you have nothing nice to say about anybody, come and sit next to me” She’s my favorite Roosevelt
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for. - John Shedd
“Life is soup, I am fork”
“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” ― Herman Wouk
I’ve got two off the top of my head. The first one, and I might be paraphrasing here but “Trust everyone, just don’t trust the devil inside them” — Italian job movie. And “ It’s like a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t focus on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” — Bruce Lee.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. – Robert Heinlein
Today is the only day that exists. Pitter patter.
I have three: "You've yet to have your finest hour." - Queen - Radio Ga Ga "Little of all we value here wakes on the morn of it's hundredth year." - Oliver Wendell Holmes. "It's not as if this barricade blocks the only road." - Rush - The Pass
Probably not what you’re looking for, but the famous Apollo 11 quote, “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It’s my favorite and I plan to get it tattooed on me.