Favorite Quote(s)?

[tMoon]

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.)

To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people
and affection of children; to earn the
appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best
in others; to leave the world a bit
better, whether by a healthy child
a garden patch or redeemed
social condition; to know even
one life has breathed easier because
you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost

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.

 

[Toadofsky]

From Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.
-Mazer Rackham

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

Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

 

[Divine_God]

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.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Yup.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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

"Humaness" or "Human-Heartedness" is always felt to be superior to "righteousness", since man himself is greater than any idea which he may invent.

 

[kill dank]

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

 

[Shall Skill]

"Just keep swimming" - Dory the Fish

Inspires us to keep on going through our struggles

 

[Alesso]

"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.

 

[Emperor Nero]

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

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says, ‘you are nothing’, I will be a writer.”

 

[mage3158]

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

- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters


And also:

 

[kill dank]

"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.

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?

 

[Sarah123]

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall, he will end by destroying the world - Albert Schweitzer

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.

 

[Laptop65]

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.

 

[n4n0]

“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

 

[Noam]

"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

 

[0belisk]

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

 

[FireZ]

MOB - Money over bitches

 

[isuckathalo1]

MOB - Money over bitches

Bros Before Hoes

 

[BeeVer]

"Hakuna Matata" - Timon and




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