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[–] twice_twotimes 10 points 1 year ago

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’"

~ Kurt Vonnegut

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

There are only two things that are infinite. The universe and the stupidity of man. I’m not sure about the universe, though.

  • Albert Einstein
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

"If soulmates exist, they're not found, they're made"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good is not the enemy of perfect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

But the perfect is the enemy of the good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Cormac Mccarthy:

"Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You fucked up. You trusted us.

From Animal House

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX

It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.

"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"

Also:

"Do what you can't"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One must imagine sisyphus happy.

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[–] Tramdan 6 points 1 year ago

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“The only common factor in all of your failures, is you.”

-Meh, I don’t know

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don’t know? Sheesh, what a failure. 😀

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Life is too short to please everybody.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

“Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't pick just one.

Now the world has gone to bed

Darkness won't engulf my head

I can see by infra-red

How I hate the night

-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.

When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture

Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

  • Hellen Keller
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.

[–] thelsim 5 points 1 year ago

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). Said on his deathbed, when asked by a priest if he forgave his enemies.

Not that I’m in favor if shooting people :) It’s just so deliciously unapologetic and I love the setting in which it is said.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

both gramsci

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"...because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this... bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye."

  • Ellen Ripley
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

“The American public knows what it wants, and it deserves to get it… good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

“Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul and set you free from all your sins. Sometimes a woman is a heroin addiction - you are a junkie, you are my best friend. Let her go.” - The Bad Examples

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Don't whistle while you're pissing." ---Hagbard Celine - Illuminatus by Robert Anton Wilson

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My personal favorite is (and I'm probably messing it up because it's been 30 years...):

If there were more bloody noses, there'd be fewer wars.

When I read that, I was finally able to reconcile my pacifist upbringing with the reality I was observing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Be careful what you wish for"

--Aesop--

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I always wanted to be a well known idiot. - Niko Bellic, after not wanting to appear on camera associated with a street justice man

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