Favorite Quote(s)?

What are your favorite quote(s) and why?

Some of mine:
Think it's a good representation of what it means to succeed in life (IMO.)

Just because something bad is going on, doesn't mean it's the end.

I'll prob put more on here as I find more/decide to post more I like.

 

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi

It's about the only quote I can remember and I think it's a good one as it basically reminds me not to hold a grudge as its basically a waste of time.

 

From Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

This one is a bit longer and not an absolute favorite of mine but I still like it.
Jonathan Nolan in Memento Mori

 

I really like these quotes by Alan Watts.


The concept of humans to me is amazing and I think this quote is a realization of how brilliant humans are.

I have so many workaholic friends who can't live in the moment. I wonder what all their work is for if they can't enjoy what they already have.

Think for yourself. Observe, study, and formulate your own opinion.

Yup.

Deistic/Atheistic quote making fun of the barbarism styles that associate with the godly.

Have love for fellow man kind. I do prefer humaness over righteousness.

 

Cosrob is a faggot, would be my main choice.

Aside from that, You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

And my favorite of all, "Most people miss opportunity because it's wearing overalls and looks like work." - Ben Franklin

 

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elisabeth Kubler Ross

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo

 

"Just keep swimming" - Dory the Fish

Inspires us to keep on going through our struggles

 

"You know, I wonder if they'll laugh when I am dead.
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight?
Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing insight?
Why I am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try?
Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?"

-Tupac Shakur

I really like this quote because it makes me reflect on all of the things that make you struggle in life, and I look for my reasons why I push myself past them.

 

Here are two from my favorite non-fiction writer, HST:

 

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters


And also:

 

I love how uneducated celebrities and gang bangers try to sound philosophical, they're so retarded..

"Why am I trying to see, when there ain't nothing insight?" - How the fuck does that make sense?

 

I love how its not one of those quotes that's trying to be poetic. It just is what it is- humanity in a nutshell.

 

When nothing goes right. Go left.

 

What'd you say to me little bitch?

Na but serious - "If you really, really want something, you'll get it" or something like that.

 

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

 

"Give a man fire and he’s warm for a day; set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life" -Terry Pratchett
I'm a cynical bastard. This encompasses a large portion of my personal philosophy

 

"Time is the most precious commodity thats out there, it's the one thing in life you can't buy or buy back."

 

MOB - Money over bitches

 

Bros Before Hoes

 

"Hakuna Matata" - Timon and




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