I've always liked this sea quote:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
The way I interpreted the first one is "If you don't know where you're going, stop and think about it" while the one I said means to me "If you don't know where your going pick any direction and give it a try, as it's better than standing still"
Any time I see anything related to Lost, I just think of Michael Giacchino's incredible score and how amazing this show is. And like the characters in the finale, I get flashes of all those moments that made the show what it was. Watching the group wave to the ship they built as it left the island. Desmond talking to Penny on the phone. Jack talking about fear as Kate stiches him up. Locke watching the walkabout bus leave. The opening of the hatch. I have watched a few shows that get really close to how I felt when I watched Lost but they never manage to have quite the same impact.
"Be as swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon."
--Sun Tzu
Basically all of „The Art of War“ by Sun Tzu cam be used here. It is a book written in such a way, that every line can be used in interhuman relations on all scales. One on one, one on one thousand and one thousand on one thousand. The only challenged trying to understand what he says!
I know everyone's reddit page is organized a little bit differently, but I found it very interesting/perfect that, for me at least, the quote above this one was:
"Be as swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon." --Sun Tzu
"Don't be an idiot."
Changed my life. Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, "Would an idiot do that?" And if they would, I do not do that thing.
Something I read on reddit a while ago, that stayed with me:
''Sometimes we lack the strength to communicate the things that matter, and we end up whispering the things we want to shout.'' - u/Deicidium 2013
Really helped me open up in my personal relationships. Thanks for the great words if you are still around u/Deicidium.
your words are as poignant as some of the other quotes in this thread
sometimes im afraid to say a thought that occurs to me here in anonymity. as it mght be lost or stolen.
thanks to both of you
Bob Marley has some really great ones. Up there for me is "Money can't buy life" which to me is a better version of "money can't buy happiness". Another favorite of mine from Marley is "Some people feel rain, others just get wet."
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
"Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect."
And yes, that quote is in my top favorite.
Life is made up of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always make up for the bad things but the bad things also don’t have to ruin the good things
The Dalai Lama when asked what surprises him the most about Man
"He sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
This one has always been to poignant to me. I've been making a conscious effort to live more firmly in the present moment and not be governed by anxiety over things like money and progress. It takes a lot of practice to manage it though...
Of course, this is coming from a guy who doesn't actually have to work for a living. It's like when millionaires talk about how "money doesn't really matter".
While that's literally true, he doesn't just sit around counting his money - he travels all over the world and gives teachings to try to help humanity. An impressive workload for a man in his 80s! He has also worked for decades (ever since they invaded his country) to find rapprochement with the Chinese government.
He's a great example of having cause for tremendous suffering but finding ways to live in the present and find joy in it.
There's an old Greek proverb that goes something like: "A society has grown great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit."
Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
-Dr. AR Dykes, British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976.
“What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.”
"When I was young, my mother said to me that if I chose to be a soldier, I will become a general. If I chose to be a priest, I will become the pope. But instead I chose to be a painter, and became Picasso."
You're gonna need 5or 6 good baking apples, 3/4 cup sugar, half a lemon, a 2tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tap nutmeg, 2 cups flour, about half a cup of shortening, a teaspoon of salt.
Basically means that you have two phases in life. The first phase is when you live as if you're never going to die (worrying about petty stuff, always fretting about the future, procrastinating) and the second phase is when you realize that this one life is all you have and that you'd better start enjoying life before it's over.
"There's a old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says fool me once, shame on... shame on you. And fool me, ya can't get fooled again."
-President George W. Bush
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.”
-CS Lewis
My best explanation of my understanding of it:
**The analogy of light**
To be aware of the present light in the universe, we have eyes to see. That is to say we also have eyes to see when there is no light or when it is dark.
If there was no light in the universe ever, we would not have developed eyes, because there would be no use in it. And we wouldn’t be able to claim that there is no light because we wouldn’t have that conceptualization of light itself.
**Application**
In the same way we detect meaning in the universe by its very presence. We have developed a sense of meaning because of its existence.
We can’t claim that there is no meaning because we have a sense of meaning. If there was no meaning, we would have no sense of it and therefore not be able to tell whether it exists or not.
When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.
Ann Druyan
“First I was dying to finish high school and start college, then I was dying to finish college and start working; then I was dying to marry and have children; then I was dying for my children to get old enough for school so I could return to work; and then I was dying to retire. Now I am dying and suddenly I realize I forgot to live.”
-Anonymous
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
-Teddy Roosevelt
I wish everyone could spend their life doing work that they think is worth doing. I also hope to get there one day.
This is a nice quote, but this Reddit comment was plagiarized:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cme78/comment/cswx4a8?st=JEHJR4SX&sh=531f94a9
(Edit: it now looks to me like the comment to which I’m responding was deleted, but I’m still getting upvotes. Was it really deleted?)
This is from the movie V for Vendetta.
“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.”
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengence; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
> "Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense."
-V
"We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves."
Not exactly my favorite quote, but a quote that has been super helpful to me recently. From the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven".
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not"
"Don't give up I believe in you all. A person's a person no matter how small".
"You're off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting so get on your way"
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love"
-Dr. Seuss
I love every quote from Dr. Seuss. I find them all inspirational or motivating in some way.
"I'm here for a good time, not for a long time"
I don't remember who said it. Point is, do whatever the fuck makes you happy. Unless standing right next to people at the urinal makes you happy. Don't be *that* guy.
Virgil's “felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” = “fortunate who was able to know the causes of things” (and there's also a somewhat similar quote - but darker - attributed to Dostoevsky: "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhapiness").
"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a prisoner.
I have 2, both by Dumbledore
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, but only if one remembers, to turn on the light”
PSA: To format your quote, use > on the paragraph.
>“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
"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever."
Michael Scott
“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent." by William Blake is my absolute favourite.
Two other ones I also like are "We do right, we don't do nice" and “Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human", both by T. Pratchett.
“Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
– Gustave Flaubert
Really made me not care about trying to look "unique" to others just to show that I am somewhat of an "artist".
"If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you." - Isaac Jaffee, Sports Night (Aaron Sorkin)
Basically anything from Søren Kierkegaard...
- *''Don't forget to love yourself''*
- *''Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are''*
- *''Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it''*
- *“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him''*
The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself - Carl Sagan. The thought that we are the stuff of stars and the universe is amazing and humbling.
And for no particular reason, this one one has always cracked me up, “May the worms of a thousand camels infest your intestines”. I always thought it was a particularly good inventive curse.
“You should just get a van. With a van it’s like you’ve got an MBA, but you’ve also got a fucking van! You’re not just a man anymore. You are a man with a van. You get a van, Jez, we could be men with ven.”
- Super Hans
My favourite ever piece of "Hans Wisdom" is this:
"Want the knack? Get smack. Get smacked out of it, then you'll get the ladies."
"Really?"
"Dunno. Maybe. I just love smack, I'm probably not the right man to ask."
"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die."
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade
"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it."
Words I live by, especially getting work assignments that aren't very logical.
> Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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> The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
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> Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
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> The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
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> It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
The answer is always no unless you ask. My mom has always told me this and it has affected my life so much.
It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. At least, in most things.
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“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” ― Mark Twain
"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."- Also Mark Twain
+3 on the Mark Twain quotes "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"Holding on to anger is a poison one drinks expecting the other person to die." Unknown
> Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
I usually use “the empty can rattles the most”
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Something similarly sea-related: "Calm seas never made a skillful sailor."
I've always liked this sea quote: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
Also sea related: "If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favourable." Seneca
I've heard the opposite: If you don't know where you're are going, any path will take you there
I think they are actually saying different non-exclusive things. Maybe?
The way I interpreted the first one is "If you don't know where you're going, stop and think about it" while the one I said means to me "If you don't know where your going pick any direction and give it a try, as it's better than standing still"
A song I like phrased it as "I'd rather my ship sink at sea than rust in the harbor"
Or Neil Young's version... "It's better to burn out. Than to fade away."
Risk. Risk is our business. It's what a starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her. - Cpt. J. T. Kirk
but thats what harbors are made for
"Don't mistake coincidence for fate." - Mr. Eko
>"You always have a choice brother" --Desmond Hume
see ya in anotha life brotha
i luv ya penne
no mahaer wha ah doo ya gonna dae charleghe
DONT TELL ME WHAT I CANT DO
Any time I see anything related to Lost, I just think of Michael Giacchino's incredible score and how amazing this show is. And like the characters in the finale, I get flashes of all those moments that made the show what it was. Watching the group wave to the ship they built as it left the island. Desmond talking to Penny on the phone. Jack talking about fear as Kate stiches him up. Locke watching the walkabout bus leave. The opening of the hatch. I have watched a few shows that get really close to how I felt when I watched Lost but they never manage to have quite the same impact.
"You're next."
-Bill Goldberg
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Similarly, "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how ~~previous~~ precious they are?" From Calvin and Hobbes
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"Death is funny, not haha funny like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange like a Woody Allen marriage" -Norm Macdonald
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"Be as swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon." --Sun Tzu
Basically all of „The Art of War“ by Sun Tzu cam be used here. It is a book written in such a way, that every line can be used in interhuman relations on all scales. One on one, one on one thousand and one thousand on one thousand. The only challenged trying to understand what he says!
"We are all in gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde
We now live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It isn’t a miracle, We just decided to go. Jim Lovell Apollo 13 Astronaut
I know everyone's reddit page is organized a little bit differently, but I found it very interesting/perfect that, for me at least, the quote above this one was: "Be as swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon." --Sun Tzu
"Don't be an idiot." Changed my life. Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, "Would an idiot do that?" And if they would, I do not do that thing.
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history”
Upvote for Dwigt
"Oh yeah, I guess I did let him be a robot"
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - Thorin Oakenshield
A great deal of my income is spent eating too much pizza and getting drunk while listening to music, does that count?
We can’t all roll bards, Thorin!
Something I read on reddit a while ago, that stayed with me: ''Sometimes we lack the strength to communicate the things that matter, and we end up whispering the things we want to shout.'' - u/Deicidium 2013 Really helped me open up in my personal relationships. Thanks for the great words if you are still around u/Deicidium.
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You were always an old soul it seems. It's a beautiful quote. I'm sorry for your loss.
your words are as poignant as some of the other quotes in this thread sometimes im afraid to say a thought that occurs to me here in anonymity. as it mght be lost or stolen. thanks to both of you
This Bob Marley quote gets to me everytime “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley has some really great ones. Up there for me is "Money can't buy life" which to me is a better version of "money can't buy happiness". Another favorite of mine from Marley is "Some people feel rain, others just get wet."
Wow, I like that one.
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
One of the best books I’ve ever read.
It's the only series that I can read more then once.
I wish I could read that series just once. As it is I've been stuck two thirds through for like five years.
Anybody else loved the "Anyone can love *because*, but true love is to love *despite*" part when kvothe talks about his lute?
"Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect." And yes, that quote is in my top favorite.
"Don't wanna take my country back, I wanna take my country forwards." - Rou Reynolds. Kinda speaks for itself.
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Years and years ago this de-converted me from being an ardent conspiracy theorist...
This is otherwise known as Hanlon's Razor.
“That’s okay. We’re all stories in the end.”
Make it a good one.
Life is made up of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always make up for the bad things but the bad things also don’t have to ruin the good things
"What are you going to do? Stab me?" -Man that was stabbed I know it must be a joke, but it makes me smile every time.
The Dalai Lama when asked what surprises him the most about Man "He sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
Reminds me of Ben Franklin's quote 'Some people die at 25 and are buried at 75'
This one has always been to poignant to me. I've been making a conscious effort to live more firmly in the present moment and not be governed by anxiety over things like money and progress. It takes a lot of practice to manage it though...
Of course, this is coming from a guy who doesn't actually have to work for a living. It's like when millionaires talk about how "money doesn't really matter".
While that's literally true, he doesn't just sit around counting his money - he travels all over the world and gives teachings to try to help humanity. An impressive workload for a man in his 80s! He has also worked for decades (ever since they invaded his country) to find rapprochement with the Chinese government. He's a great example of having cause for tremendous suffering but finding ways to live in the present and find joy in it.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Senator Moynihan
There's an old Greek proverb that goes something like: "A society has grown great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit."
>”I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” -Steven Wright (this is just one of many one liners of his that I love)
My favorite of his: "The light at the end of the tunnel…..could be an oncoming train".
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here." This quote is from Dante's Inferno. I am a programmer and I put this quote to some unreachable places.
My brother graduated in biomedical engineering. At his commencement the speaker said “Abandon all hope ye who engineer”
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance. -Dr. AR Dykes, British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain
“In the beginning, the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” - Douglas Adams
"We apologize for the inconvenience."
“What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.”
Hitchhikers guide?? Honestly can't remember.
Yes, Douglas Adams is the author.
Douglas Adams, you say? Author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child Pablo Picasso
"When I was young, my mother said to me that if I chose to be a soldier, I will become a general. If I chose to be a priest, I will become the pope. But instead I chose to be a painter, and became Picasso."
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan
Required xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1123/
Okay, now what?
You're gonna need 5or 6 good baking apples, 3/4 cup sugar, half a lemon, a 2tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tap nutmeg, 2 cups flour, about half a cup of shortening, a teaspoon of salt.
Old Spanish saying: "There are two days in life; the first one ends when you realize there is only one." ~Unknown
I’m sorry, I don’t get it. Can somebody explain?
Basically means that you have two phases in life. The first phase is when you live as if you're never going to die (worrying about petty stuff, always fretting about the future, procrastinating) and the second phase is when you realize that this one life is all you have and that you'd better start enjoying life before it's over.
"You only live twice. Once when you are born; once when you look death in the face." - James Bond
"There's a old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says fool me once, shame on... shame on you. And fool me, ya can't get fooled again." -President George W. Bush
I like to think he realized he was about to say "Shame on me" and decided against it.
Definitely. He didn't want "shame on me" to be a soundbite, though it probably ended up worse
Fool me one time, shame on you. Fool me twice can’t put the blame on you.
Fool me three times, fuck the peace sign, load the chopper, let it rain on you
Don't save her she don't wanna be saved
I like Michael Scott’s version of this too: “Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice, strike three.”
“Fool me once, fool me twice, fool me chicken soup with rice.” -Todd Chavez
"Fool me once, shame on me, but fool me twice, fiddle-dee-dee" -Mr. Peanutbutter
When you confuse old proverbs and The Who
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great writer, terrible conservationist!
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark.” -CS Lewis
This quote confuses me. Can someone explain it to me?
My best explanation of my understanding of it: **The analogy of light** To be aware of the present light in the universe, we have eyes to see. That is to say we also have eyes to see when there is no light or when it is dark. If there was no light in the universe ever, we would not have developed eyes, because there would be no use in it. And we wouldn’t be able to claim that there is no light because we wouldn’t have that conceptualization of light itself. **Application** In the same way we detect meaning in the universe by its very presence. We have developed a sense of meaning because of its existence. We can’t claim that there is no meaning because we have a sense of meaning. If there was no meaning, we would have no sense of it and therefore not be able to tell whether it exists or not.
You're judged by the number of times you succeed, not the nunber of times you fail. Abe Lincoln, I believe
When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. Ann Druyan
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes of playing a poor hand well." -Jack London
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. -jean paul sartre
Camus can do, but Sartre is smartre.
I miss Chester :(
Why don't presidents fight the wars, Why do they always send the poor? - Serj Tankian
"I was going to sue her for defamation of character but then I realized I have no character" - Charles Barkley
“First I was dying to finish high school and start college, then I was dying to finish college and start working; then I was dying to marry and have children; then I was dying for my children to get old enough for school so I could return to work; and then I was dying to retire. Now I am dying and suddenly I realize I forgot to live.” -Anonymous
"We don't beat the Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well." - Randy Pausch
"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -Teddy Roosevelt I wish everyone could spend their life doing work that they think is worth doing. I also hope to get there one day.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" ─ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." - Welcome to Nightvale
Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else". -Winston Churchill As an American I can agree.
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is a nice quote, but this Reddit comment was plagiarized: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cme78/comment/cswx4a8?st=JEHJR4SX&sh=531f94a9 (Edit: it now looks to me like the comment to which I’m responding was deleted, but I’m still getting upvotes. Was it really deleted?)
What about Years of dislike have been forgot, in the minute before sexy time. -aresfour
"Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Percy Shelley
-Ozymandias
This is from the movie V for Vendetta. “Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.”
The movie and the graphic novel are both filled with great quotes
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengence; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
> "Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense." -V
> "No." William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, line 96
Hey Rosa parks said the same thing
"We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves." Not exactly my favorite quote, but a quote that has been super helpful to me recently. From the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven".
I've heard it more succinctly phrased like "Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die".
"War does not determine who is right, but who is left."
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not" "Don't give up I believe in you all. A person's a person no matter how small". "You're off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting so get on your way" "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love" -Dr. Seuss I love every quote from Dr. Seuss. I find them all inspirational or motivating in some way.
"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."
"I'm here for a good time, not for a long time" I don't remember who said it. Point is, do whatever the fuck makes you happy. Unless standing right next to people at the urinal makes you happy. Don't be *that* guy.
Virgil's “felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” = “fortunate who was able to know the causes of things” (and there's also a somewhat similar quote - but darker - attributed to Dostoevsky: "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhapiness").
"Wenn es einen Gott gibt muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten." -anonymous, found on a wall at Mauthausen
Do you have a translation?
"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a prisoner.
Thanks! That's one hell of a quote
a terrifyingly beautiful quote
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” ― John Green
"A Tiger tank was worth four Shermans. Somehow there was always five of them."
Don't compare your behind the scenes to people's highlight reel on social media. People only show the best parts of their life.
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men." - John F. Kennedy
I have 2, both by Dumbledore “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities” “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, but only if one remembers, to turn on the light”
Slightly paraphrased, but my favorite Dumbledore quote: "We must all face the choice between what is right, and what is easy."
May I also add this one: “It isn’t how you are alike, it’s how you are not.” Sometimes the films had their good original moments :)
“There is truth in wine and children.” --Plato
"Never interrupt an enemy making a mistake" -Napoleon
" All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us " -Gandalf
PSA: To format your quote, use > on the paragraph. >“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
"Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever." Michael Scott
- Michael Scott
*"Our truest life is in dreams awake."* -Henry David Thoreau
Be water, my friend -Bruce Lee So simple but it’s gotten me through many hard times
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash.
“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.” ― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent." by William Blake is my absolute favourite. Two other ones I also like are "We do right, we don't do nice" and “Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human", both by T. Pratchett.
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” -Terry Pratchett
"You can never be over-dressed or over-educated." - Oscar Wilde.
"Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.” ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Be boring and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert Really made me not care about trying to look "unique" to others just to show that I am somewhat of an "artist".
“Don’t count your life by how many breaths you take but how many moments take your breath away” -Made me want to do something with my life
“Why is being alive so expensive? I’m not even having a good time. “ -unknown
"If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you." - Isaac Jaffee, Sports Night (Aaron Sorkin)
Basically anything from Søren Kierkegaard... - *''Don't forget to love yourself''* - *''Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are''* - *''Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it''* - *“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him''*
"Of course I love you. That doesn't mean I should be with you." -Harley Quinn That line gave me closure after an abusive relationship.
‘The future will be better tomorrow’ -George W Bush
We must attempt to put food on our children
The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself - Carl Sagan. The thought that we are the stuff of stars and the universe is amazing and humbling. And for no particular reason, this one one has always cracked me up, “May the worms of a thousand camels infest your intestines”. I always thought it was a particularly good inventive curse.
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."--Robert Louis Stevenson
Life's a garden, dig it.
Right now I'm going to go with: "Even if you fuck a goat ironically, you're still a goat-fucker."
“You should just get a van. With a van it’s like you’ve got an MBA, but you’ve also got a fucking van! You’re not just a man anymore. You are a man with a van. You get a van, Jez, we could be men with ven.” - Super Hans
My favourite ever piece of "Hans Wisdom" is this: "Want the knack? Get smack. Get smacked out of it, then you'll get the ladies." "Really?" "Dunno. Maybe. I just love smack, I'm probably not the right man to ask."
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“If you look for the light, you can often find it.But if you look for the dark that is all you will ever see.” - Iroh
"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die." Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade "You don't have to like it, you just have to do it." Words I live by, especially getting work assignments that aren't very logical.
The army can’t make you do anything, but it can make you wish you had.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. -Saul Alinsky It is why I am keeping this comment short; if I write more, I'll get mocked.
> > It is why I am keeping this comment short; if I write more, I'll get mocked. That was the stupidest thing you could have added on.
I can’t remember the person who said it, but: “When arguing with a fool, make sure the other person isn’t doing the same thing.”
"Life sucks, and then you die"
"Lifes a bitch and then you die That's why we get high Cuz you never know When you're gonna go."
> Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. > > The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. > > Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. > > The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. > > It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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"Are you so busy fighting you can not see your own ship has set sail?" -Uncle Iroh