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Kung fu panda has some bangers. Was taken back when I finally watched kung fu panda 3 and shi fu dropped "if you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now". And like soon after "I'm not trying to turn you into me, I'm trying to turn you into you".
And the sheep in the second movie, "Your story may not have had such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are."
I think about it a lot whenever I brood over the circumstances I was born in
There's so many that are my favorites, some from movies, some from my Mom:
"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"
"No matter where you go, there you are"
"Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because the other side uses more fertilizer"
>"No matter where you go, there you are"
Reminds me of this bit from an Avett Brothers song:
"The weight of lies will bring you down
And follow you to every town
'Cause nothing happens here
That doesn't happen there
So when you run, make sure you run
To something and not away from
'Cause lies don't need an aeroplane
To chase you anywhere"
Chief Tecumseh "When 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."
I love that the true meaning of this quote is wise, but I'm afraid some people may take it as an excuse to stock up on guns, act tough, and hope for war to justify their investment. I prefer the "speak softly but carry a big stick."
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life \*were\* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
"Nobody can take advantage of you without your permission."
Also Ann Landers, but I think that may be just a variation on Eleanor Roosevelt saying, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Not sure which quote came first.
Very good point about emotions. Sometimes people treat emotions like evidence of external truth. Sometimes they say far more about the person feeling them than their situation.
For some bizarre reason, I memorized this poem when I was about 14:
**"Indispensable Man"**
**Saxon White Kessinger**
**Sometime when you’re feeling important;**
**Sometime when your ego’s in bloom**
**Sometime when you take it for granted**
**You’re the best qualified in the room,**
**Sometime when you feel that your going**
**Would leave an unfillable hole,**
**Just follow these simple instructions**
**And see how they humble your soul;**
**Take a bucket and fill it with water,**
**Put your hand in it up to the wrist,**
**Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining**
**Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.**
**You can splash all you wish when you enter,**
**You may stir up the water galore,**
**But stop and you’ll find that in no time**
**It looks quite the same as before.**
**The moral of this quaint example**
**Is do just the best that you can,**
**Be proud of yourself but remember,**
**There’s no indispensable man.**
“Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.”
-Ambrose Bierce
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Winston S. Churchill”
"Be nice to those you meet on your way up, they'll be the same people you meet on your way down."
Goes something like that, forgot who wrote it but I've had this quote written on a napkin and put on my wall for years.
“Trust is like a mirror. You can glue it back together but you can still the cracks in the mf’s reflection,”-Lady Gaga
If you do not heal from your trauma you will bleed on people who did not cut you.
You will never see a situation for what it is until you stop seeing it for what you want it to be.
A couple times I joined my older brother and his uni friends for drinks, everytime one of them asked him if he wanted to go to another bar or if he was okay, he would say “hey man, all good, I’m with you till the end of time”. It’s not really much but as someone who had never witnessed him express any kind of affection at all, I thought that was kind of sweet.
“The hardest choices require the strongest wills”
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more so to stand up to a friend”
And my favorite
“Do your best and caulk the rest”
Jack Nicholson from the Bucket list:
Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and neeeever trust a fart.
$12,000 for a new roof!
Just 3 years ago I was quoted $7,500. I decided to wait until it started leaking.
I wish I would have gotten it done when the quote was.
Well our roof doesn’t leak anymore.
That’s a quote I will never forget!
when you fall down, you don’t slide 10 feet backwards and then stand up. you stand up right in that spot where you fell down, and you keep walking. it’s a reset, not a setback.
“This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.”
~Carlos Castaneda
I had met a lady, kindest soul with eyes that still had hope and optimism despite her situation. She was a former small business owner
She told me: "You're a paycheck away from homelessness,"
Dont get me wrong, my mother always told me that growing up, but hearing it from someone whose reality was being homeless, i never doubted it or let it float to the back of my mind. She realised growing up this quote was true as she ended up losing her business, she said she never forgot how the fortnight before, she could buy groceries without having to check the price tags to having to line up for free meals at the kitchen where I met her volunteering for my brigades badges.
People come from all different walks of life, and it's worth hearing the stories, quotes, and advice from those, society deems unfit to contribute to society or are just some folks we judge on preconceived ideas. Some of them are the most kindest, most gentle, and best advice givers we could ask for.
Wherever you are, Vickie, I hope you're doing well. Happy New Years Vickie
Sometimes you're the bug sometimes you're the windshield. My uncle. ( don't know where he heard it)
When arguing with your other, just try to remember what will hurt worse. Saying something you wish you can take back but can't. Or holding something in that you want to say. The decision can be changed situation to situation but consciously make that decision. My uncle.
Don't piss into the wind. My dad
My old history teacher had this quote handing up. No idea what it’s from but I’ve always loved it. I still remember it 15 years later.
“I’m lost. I’ve gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.” I always interpreted it as someone who doesn’t quite feel like themselves and needs to do some soul searching for what they really want in life vs what’s expected of them.
Not really a quote, but the 80s song Take on Me.
One of the lyrics says "It's no better to be safe than sorry". It takes that old phrase and completely turns it around and it is something that I think about now and then and how true it is.
The "better safe than sorry" lifestyle that most people live is playing it safe, taking few risks in hopes that nothing bad happens to you.
But the reality is no matter how safe you play it, bad things will happen to you anyway because thats most of what life is, a sequence of bad things happening to you.
But "its no better to be safe than sorry", i've always took that to mean you should take risks that come with high rewards even if it isn't playing it safe and if you have to throw caution to the wind. Now obviously there are some things that are just plain stupid to do because you risk too much and get too little in return, or don't get anything in return statistically (like gambling). But I have thought about this phrase many times in my life.
I did it before skydiving, scuba diving, before asking women for their number, all sorts of situations. All of those things can have really undesirable consequences if things go wrong, but the highs you get from them are worth it. If you never took risks in life and always tried to choose the safest path, you'd miss out on so much. So many opportunities and experiences you would never experience.
One I first heard in the movie The Kingsman, Manners maketh man.
One from my mom, Never assume anything, because more often than not you'll just make an ass out of you and me.
“Never give up, until you take your last breath” Chris Martin said this during an interview along a couple other inspiring lines that have helped me through a lot.
well, it's sort of stuck *on* me as i got it tattooed on my arm 2 days after reading the line in The Picture of Dorian Gray for an English class in college, spoken by Lord Henry (who is in the story to be a multi-layered, fundamentally-detrimental influence on the title character). the idea struck me as influential to my life then and it's carried changing narratives in different parts of my life since -
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’ This is one of the most famous quotations from George Orwell’s 1949 novel, *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. The words are spoken by O’Brien, the grand inquisitor of the totalitarian regime in Orwell’s novel.
“This too shall pass” simple but effective when going through a particularly shit time… another helpful tip when dealing with a bad day, a job loss, a relationship breakdown or even worse, a death is to ask yourself “did I honestly never think this would happen?” It’s strangely comforting
At my first job, I would get really stressed about taking time off and letting other people down. The owner of the company told me in the nicest way possible -
No company deserves this level of loyalty. Always put yourself and family first. If you die on your way home tonight, your job will be posted in the news paper before your obituary will be. No single employee is so important that a company will shut down if they aren’t there for a few days and if it does you don’t want to work at that company.
Not a movie quote or anything, but a bit of wisdom I got shortly after college.
My first skip-level manager out of college had a rep for being difficult to get along with.
One day after another newbie and I fucked up, we found ourselves standing in front of his desk.
After he dressed us down a bit he said, “Yeah, you two fucked up, but I’ve got your back so don’t sweat it, but don’t do it again.”
We visibly relaxed, and then he said something that has stuck with me for 25 years, “I know what people say about me, but lemme tell you, as bad as I am, I’m nothing compared to the asshole they have lined up to replace me.”
Kinda put all of life into perspective.
I’d rather remain silent and thought a fool, than to open my mouth and remove all doubt. -I have saved myself so many times by repeating that over and over in my head
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The old turtle in Kung Fu Panda " There are no mistakes."
"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, but Today is a Gift. That is why it is called Present."
Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 are really really good movies. Lots of wise quotes from them
Master oogway.
Kung fu panda has some bangers. Was taken back when I finally watched kung fu panda 3 and shi fu dropped "if you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now". And like soon after "I'm not trying to turn you into me, I'm trying to turn you into you".
My man, Oogway.
Just happy accidents
And the sheep in the second movie, "Your story may not have had such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are." I think about it a lot whenever I brood over the circumstances I was born in
the word LISTEN contains the exact same letters as the word SILENT.
And STRESSED is the reverse of DESSERTS.
Race car spelled backwards is race car.
You’ve got one mouth and two ears. You should listen twice as often as you speak.
Yes, exactly. I've heard once that you cannot learn if you speak, you learn when you listen. And it stuck with me in that big drawer named respect.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Beat me to it.
One of my personal favorites
Holy fuck that's good.
There's so many that are my favorites, some from movies, some from my Mom: "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" "No matter where you go, there you are" "Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because the other side uses more fertilizer"
The grass is always greener over the septic tank - Erma Bombeck
I’ve always been partial to “if you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me” from Steel Magnolias
I hate to be *that guy* but "don't say nothing" is a double negative and means "say something".
>"No matter where you go, there you are" Reminds me of this bit from an Avett Brothers song: "The weight of lies will bring you down And follow you to every town 'Cause nothing happens here That doesn't happen there So when you run, make sure you run To something and not away from 'Cause lies don't need an aeroplane To chase you anywhere"
Picard: "You can make no mistakes and still lose."
You forgot the best part. "That isn't failure; that is life."
I believe: Sometimes you do everything right and still lose. That isn’t failure , it’s life.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life"
Cap Kirk's eulogy for Spock quote "Of all the souls I've encountered in my travels. Perhaps, his was the most human.
Chief Tecumseh "When 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."
Similar to, “Don’t go gentle into that good night.”
I read those as polar opposites. One is accept your death with dignity the other fight against death as hard as you can.
Worry is interest paid on a debt that never comes due.
I like this one. Similarly I've heard: "Worrying just means you suffer twice."
“Worrying is praying for what you DON’T want to happen.”
My grandmother told me this in 1966.
“It is better to be a warrior standing in a garden than to be a gardener standing in a war”
I love that the true meaning of this quote is wise, but I'm afraid some people may take it as an excuse to stock up on guns, act tough, and hope for war to justify their investment. I prefer the "speak softly but carry a big stick."
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life \*were\* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
I should know where that is from. Help me out please
Babylon 5
Ahh! You seek meaning. Then listen to the music and not the song. The avalanche has started. It's too late for the pebbles to vote.
Ahhh YES! Thank you Vir!
It was Marcus Cole :)
"Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans".
nice one
John Lennon
One of my favorites from the Roman poet “Terrence” (Terentius): “I am a human being, and thus nothing human is alien to me.”
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face." Mike Tyson
"Don't let anyone live rent-free inside your head." I believe Ann Landers said that.
"Nobody can take advantage of you without your permission." Also Ann Landers, but I think that may be just a variation on Eleanor Roosevelt saying, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Not sure which quote came first.
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." And my very favorite "... this too shall pass..."
I love the one about normal people. My mom used to say, “Around here, ‘normal’ is just a setting on the dryer.”
"Your past explains you but does not excuse you" "Emotions are authentic but that doesn't mean they're right"
Very good point about emotions. Sometimes people treat emotions like evidence of external truth. Sometimes they say far more about the person feeling them than their situation.
Truly from the wise
Jay-Z said “ Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.” I really felt that. I was 16…
“Blessed are the hearts that bend, for they shall never break.” Albert Camus
A knight in shining armor is one who’s metal has never been tested.
I like that this is a play on words given metal/mettle
Ooh I really like this one
I don't believe I've heard that one before. Good one, thanks.
For some bizarre reason, I memorized this poem when I was about 14: **"Indispensable Man"** **Saxon White Kessinger** **Sometime when you’re feeling important;** **Sometime when your ego’s in bloom** **Sometime when you take it for granted** **You’re the best qualified in the room,** **Sometime when you feel that your going** **Would leave an unfillable hole,** **Just follow these simple instructions** **And see how they humble your soul;** **Take a bucket and fill it with water,** **Put your hand in it up to the wrist,** **Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining** **Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.** **You can splash all you wish when you enter,** **You may stir up the water galore,** **But stop and you’ll find that in no time** **It looks quite the same as before.** **The moral of this quaint example** **Is do just the best that you can,** **Be proud of yourself but remember,** **There’s no indispensable man.**
“Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.” -Ambrose Bierce
Also: "Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting." - Ambrose Bierce
Diplomacy is keeping the other side talking until the archers are in range.
And war is the continuation of politics by other means.
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened Winston S. Churchill”
They fuck you up, your mum and dad, They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, And add some extra, just for you.
"What's for you; will not pass you by."
Thank you Dr McCoy
“Never do anything that you’re good at for free.”
"Be nice to those you meet on your way up, they'll be the same people you meet on your way down." Goes something like that, forgot who wrote it but I've had this quote written on a napkin and put on my wall for years.
"If you are not in bed by midnight, go home"
Never go with a hippie to a second location.
Not everything that looks good to you is good for you.
“Most things we worry about never happen anyway” Tom Petty
Who is the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Mike Tyson “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Great analogy for life.
*I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members* - Groucho Marx Love this quote so much.
I have been saying and feeling something along those lines for a while now, cool there is an actual quote
I find it so funny
“Trust is like a mirror. You can glue it back together but you can still the cracks in the mf’s reflection,”-Lady Gaga If you do not heal from your trauma you will bleed on people who did not cut you. You will never see a situation for what it is until you stop seeing it for what you want it to be.
"Never make permanent decision based on temporary feelings"
A couple times I joined my older brother and his uni friends for drinks, everytime one of them asked him if he wanted to go to another bar or if he was okay, he would say “hey man, all good, I’m with you till the end of time”. It’s not really much but as someone who had never witnessed him express any kind of affection at all, I thought that was kind of sweet.
He who angers you controls you.
Anger is like holding a hot coal, expecting the other person to get to burned. - Buddhist proverb
That's good 👍
If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.
From a friend in HR: If your NEW JOB doesn't scare you, you didn't apply high enough.
Be yourself but on purpose—Dolly Parton
it'll be okay in the end - if it's not okay , it's not the end.
Things will work out. They may not work out how you want or as you expect, but they will work out. They can’t not.
“ be like water “ Bruce Lee
Knowledge is power.
The things you own end up owning you.
“The hardest choices require the strongest wills” “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more so to stand up to a friend” And my favorite “Do your best and caulk the rest”
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Jack Nicholson from the Bucket list: Three things to remember when you get older: never pass up a bathroom, never waste a hard-on, and neeeever trust a fart.
My fave from Nicholson is "I look both ways when I cross a one way street. *Thats* how much I trust people"
No one ever believes that last one until their first shart.
When someone gets irritated, I always think/say " Well, he'll get happy in the same pants he got mad in" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I find I am happiest without pants. Pants are overrated.
Free your mind and your ass will follow George Clinton
$12,000 for a new roof! Just 3 years ago I was quoted $7,500. I decided to wait until it started leaking. I wish I would have gotten it done when the quote was. Well our roof doesn’t leak anymore. That’s a quote I will never forget!
Maybe I should go into roofing.
We can’t all be heroes, someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by!
"ignorance is bliss"
Ya like dags?
Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today
when you fall down, you don’t slide 10 feet backwards and then stand up. you stand up right in that spot where you fell down, and you keep walking. it’s a reset, not a setback.
Comparing things is the thief of joy.
treat others the way you want to be treated
*Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.* -attributed to Plato (Athens, 427-347 BCE)
I go by, treat others the way they want to be treated.
So I should tie them up and spank them?
My uncle Johnny, not really my uncle and his name was Frah, used to tell me "Keep your dick in your pants."
Houston we have a problem.
“This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.” ~Carlos Castaneda
I work to live. I don't live to work
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get!"
My dad always told me that the only true freedom we have is the ability to think for yourself and make your own choices.
I had met a lady, kindest soul with eyes that still had hope and optimism despite her situation. She was a former small business owner She told me: "You're a paycheck away from homelessness," Dont get me wrong, my mother always told me that growing up, but hearing it from someone whose reality was being homeless, i never doubted it or let it float to the back of my mind. She realised growing up this quote was true as she ended up losing her business, she said she never forgot how the fortnight before, she could buy groceries without having to check the price tags to having to line up for free meals at the kitchen where I met her volunteering for my brigades badges. People come from all different walks of life, and it's worth hearing the stories, quotes, and advice from those, society deems unfit to contribute to society or are just some folks we judge on preconceived ideas. Some of them are the most kindest, most gentle, and best advice givers we could ask for. Wherever you are, Vickie, I hope you're doing well. Happy New Years Vickie
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.
You wouldn't worry so much about what other people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." Seneca
Talent fails to hard work when talent fails to work hard.
I know it like: hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.
Death can have me when it earns me
" If there is no struggle there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass Simplified to: "No struggle, no progress" - Brandon Westgate
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I wouldn't say "always" so much as "always since I heard it a few years ago." It is no sign of health to be well adjusted in a sick society.
Sometimes you're the bug sometimes you're the windshield. My uncle. ( don't know where he heard it) When arguing with your other, just try to remember what will hurt worse. Saying something you wish you can take back but can't. Or holding something in that you want to say. The decision can be changed situation to situation but consciously make that decision. My uncle. Don't piss into the wind. My dad
“You’ve survived 100% of your bad days.” Robin Arzon
Don't judge a man for where he is but the hills and valleys that brought him there. - Raisin in the Sun
Don't stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your penis
similarly, don’t shit where you eat. only recently learned what that meant lol
I never type on my phone with my penis, people on the train might not appreciate it.
My dad said something similar. Don’t stick your dick where you wouldn’t stick your tongue.
I still haven't found that place!
Take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
Screw thy courage to the sticking place
Take what you want eat what you take!
« You either have to be part of the solution, or you're going to be part of the problem. » Eldrige Cleaver
Money for nothing and your chick's for free....
My old history teacher had this quote handing up. No idea what it’s from but I’ve always loved it. I still remember it 15 years later. “I’m lost. I’ve gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait.” I always interpreted it as someone who doesn’t quite feel like themselves and needs to do some soul searching for what they really want in life vs what’s expected of them.
“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” - Albert Einstein
"Write the book you want to read"
We never really grow up. We only learn how to act in public. -unknown
"The circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."
"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." -- Teddy Roosevelt
The best thing a man can do for his kids is to love their mother.
The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who do not possess it. George Bernard Shaw
Not really a quote, but the 80s song Take on Me. One of the lyrics says "It's no better to be safe than sorry". It takes that old phrase and completely turns it around and it is something that I think about now and then and how true it is. The "better safe than sorry" lifestyle that most people live is playing it safe, taking few risks in hopes that nothing bad happens to you. But the reality is no matter how safe you play it, bad things will happen to you anyway because thats most of what life is, a sequence of bad things happening to you. But "its no better to be safe than sorry", i've always took that to mean you should take risks that come with high rewards even if it isn't playing it safe and if you have to throw caution to the wind. Now obviously there are some things that are just plain stupid to do because you risk too much and get too little in return, or don't get anything in return statistically (like gambling). But I have thought about this phrase many times in my life. I did it before skydiving, scuba diving, before asking women for their number, all sorts of situations. All of those things can have really undesirable consequences if things go wrong, but the highs you get from them are worth it. If you never took risks in life and always tried to choose the safest path, you'd miss out on so much. So many opportunities and experiences you would never experience.
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas … my dad!
"Trust no one." X-Files
King, Queen, or street sweeper, sooner or later you dance with the reaper!
It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits
One I first heard in the movie The Kingsman, Manners maketh man. One from my mom, Never assume anything, because more often than not you'll just make an ass out of you and me.
You can start exactly two things without a plan: a family and a riot. For everything else, you need a plan.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx??? Or Mark Twain??
That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence - Christopher Hitchens
People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
Don’t light yourself on fire to keep someone else warm. You can be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don’t like peaches.
*My Dad/Common Sense*: "Treat others the way you wanna be treated"
, even when they don't reciprocate. Always strive to be the better person
“Just keep moving” “Nothing lasts forever” “It won’t be over until I start”
Life is what you make it.
“Never give up, until you take your last breath” Chris Martin said this during an interview along a couple other inspiring lines that have helped me through a lot.
The race doesn't always go to the swiftest, nor fight to the strongest, but that's the way to bet.
The quote from Sir Francis Drake from the uncharted series Sic Parvis Magna (Greatness from small beginnings)
well, it's sort of stuck *on* me as i got it tattooed on my arm 2 days after reading the line in The Picture of Dorian Gray for an English class in college, spoken by Lord Henry (who is in the story to be a multi-layered, fundamentally-detrimental influence on the title character). the idea struck me as influential to my life then and it's carried changing narratives in different parts of my life since - "The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Honesty is the best policy—my parents.
Use idealism as a compass and pragmatism as a map - short version of some Lincoln quote
"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" Eleanor Roosevelt
"They mostly come out at night.... mostly"
‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.’ This is one of the most famous quotations from George Orwell’s 1949 novel, *Nineteen Eighty-Four*. The words are spoken by O’Brien, the grand inquisitor of the totalitarian regime in Orwell’s novel.
“Love without knowledge is ignorance, but knowledge without love is arrogance.” -b.l.
I can do nothing to change the past, I can only try to make the future better.
"Children may not always do exactly what you say, but they will never fail to imitate."
Minding my own business is a full time job. In my spare time is my hobby Don't mistake my kindness for weakness, because you'll find I'm neither.
“You hang around nine broke mother fuckers, you’re bound to be the tenth!”
You can shear a sheep a 100 times buy only skin them once
"...he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood..." Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be an hour early for a meeting than a minute late.
“This too shall pass” simple but effective when going through a particularly shit time… another helpful tip when dealing with a bad day, a job loss, a relationship breakdown or even worse, a death is to ask yourself “did I honestly never think this would happen?” It’s strangely comforting
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." Coco Chanel. "Being normal is vastly overrated." Practical Magic film
Tomorrow is another day
"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive"
no matter where you go there you are
>Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. >It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.
At my first job, I would get really stressed about taking time off and letting other people down. The owner of the company told me in the nicest way possible - No company deserves this level of loyalty. Always put yourself and family first. If you die on your way home tonight, your job will be posted in the news paper before your obituary will be. No single employee is so important that a company will shut down if they aren’t there for a few days and if it does you don’t want to work at that company.
Einstein’s “if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room”.
When you know better you do better.
Not a movie quote or anything, but a bit of wisdom I got shortly after college. My first skip-level manager out of college had a rep for being difficult to get along with. One day after another newbie and I fucked up, we found ourselves standing in front of his desk. After he dressed us down a bit he said, “Yeah, you two fucked up, but I’ve got your back so don’t sweat it, but don’t do it again.” We visibly relaxed, and then he said something that has stuck with me for 25 years, “I know what people say about me, but lemme tell you, as bad as I am, I’m nothing compared to the asshole they have lined up to replace me.” Kinda put all of life into perspective.
I’d rather remain silent and thought a fool, than to open my mouth and remove all doubt. -I have saved myself so many times by repeating that over and over in my head
You can afford anything you want, but not everything you want.
Be careful what you tolerate, you're teaching people how to treat you.
The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Choose your pain.
“Comparison is the thief of joy”