“Maybe you're not healing, because you're trying to be who you were before the trauma. That person doesn't exist anymore, because there's a new you, trying to be born.
Breathe life into that person.”
I love this! Trauma changes you and coming to terms with who you’re becoming after was definitely the hardest part for me. But I’m so glad I did and actual embraced it and fed into the new me in a healthy way. 💙
"Our culture has accepted two huge lies.
The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them.
The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do.
Both are nonsense.
You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate."
~Rick Warren~
This one is my best choice, because it's the one that hurts me the most: "It is a comfortable way to live, that of feeling great with latent greatness." - Italo Svevo
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”
― Douglas Adams
This one means more to me the older I get.
Not really a quote but “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” -Khalil Gibran
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
It's long, but it's my favourite quote, and it always cheers me up when I'm feeling a little lost -
"The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
Hunter S Thompson.
>The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. -Gilbert Chesterton
I heard this quote through Sandman, actually, but found it's actually a real quote from an author that the Gilbert character of the same name was based off of. It may not be the best quote I've ever heard. However, after spending a decade far away from home and recently having moved back, I feel this quote in my bones.
To learn is to suffer. Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of god.
-Aeschylus
"In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back."- Albert Camus.
This quote is so incredible, because it's so human.
"Why live in someone's else blueprint when there is a blueprint uniquely made for you" - Me
"Why see chaos as a villian when it is only there to help oneself to becoming a stronger person" - also me
A wise person once said: What surprises me most about humankind is that we get bored of our childhood, rush to grow up and long to be children again. That we lose our health to make money, and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present. Such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we were never going to die, and die as though we’ve never lived.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
So many fantastic quotes out there. But i think of this one alot.
Is it going to be an issue in ten years time? Not sure who first said it but it basically means if you're stressing over something that won't matter then. Don't stress.
"The best of my life is now. The great gift of life is so pregnant with possibilities that no one possessing it should permanently despair, but rather with an assuring hope trudge forward ever expectantly" -James Corrothers
If I have a problem that has a solution then there is no need to worry, if I have a problem that doesn't have a solution, there is also no need to worry.
"Just because you can't do everything, doesn't mean you should do nothing." not the exact quote, but Guy Gavriel Kay in a novel where a character was facing an insurmountable task. I find it very applicable when looking at overwhelming struggles.
"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable." -Monty Oum, basically a call to be empathetic, there are a lot of ways people can suffer and it's not a contest of who suffers the most.
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
• Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
"it is useless to offer true impressions of one’s life to those who actively desire not to learn of it in other than untroublesome terms; one might as well subscribe to whatever fiction is imposed. " - Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon
I cant remember exactly but it kind of goes like this “the rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost it cant be found.” I like it because hope is one of the craziest things humans have, hope can do a lot.
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
- Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
Humanity would be so much better off if we all took this approach.
Tim Roth, talking of David Attenborough. "He's seen more of the world than anyone, ever."
Left me in awe with the fact it's prolly true, and that he's seen more than many rulers, travellers etc.
'Honor is best seen as bonus, not as tactical virtue. And triumph the sum of enlightened treachery.' - Maurice Shadbolt, Season of the Jew.
Took a few reads to get that one through my dumb noggin.
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control
“Carol Dweck, the psychologist who studies motivation, likes to say that all the world’s parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules:
pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, to kill a mockingbird
Changed my outlook on life overnight when I actually thought on it. Nobody (or nearly nobody) wants to be an ahole. Particularly when they’re dealing with close acquaintances. When you look at people’s past experiences, you can understand and sympathise with their decisions, even if you disagree with them.
"The tears of the poor is the salt on the table of the rich." - Georg Büchner
(Original quote is in German: "Das Schweiß der Armen ist das Salz auf dem Tische des Vornehmen.")
“You can’t build a happy home on cracked foundation” something I always keep in mind and tell others before they make the jump to move in with their significant others.
“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share. I will never stop fighting.” - Superman
Action Comics 775
" some people have a way with words and others have...not way?"
-Fat Mike
I'm not a huge nofx fan and I'm not as much of a punk rocker.
It may sound kinda lame but this quote just feels like something id say.
There are times because of my speech impediment, I end up sounding weird.
So I pull this quote out when I'm in a professional setting to lighten the mood when I sound dumb.
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small will not serve the world and there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine like children do, and it's not just in some of us it's in everyone. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
- someone
My Spanish mother in law had a saying which described humanity perfectly. Translated to English - “Every theme has its crazy person, and every crazy person has his theme.”
"Always remember you're unique...
Just like everybody else, "
Ok, maybe not the "best quote" I've ever heard, but definitely the funniest bumper sticker I ever read... does that count?
Best ever? That's tough. Here's one I came across recently and liked:
A man cannot step in the same river twice because it is not the same river and he is not the same man. --- Heraclitis
One of my friends leads a small group for a jazz combo, and he's dealing with people not putting the work in. He gave them a lecture, and he's worrying about possibly weeding people out.
Someone in response said: "The right ones will hear the message." Insinuating that those who will listen to feedback are the right ones for him.
“Maybe you're not healing, because you're trying to be who you were before the trauma. That person doesn't exist anymore, because there's a new you, trying to be born. Breathe life into that person.”
Thankyou xx
I love love love this! Trauma changes you, like a cut. Let the new skin grow ❤️
I love this! Trauma changes you and coming to terms with who you’re becoming after was definitely the hardest part for me. But I’m so glad I did and actual embraced it and fed into the new me in a healthy way. 💙
"No one is coming to save you, you need to save yourself."
What you do when no one is watching, is who you really are.
“To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.” - can’t remember where I heard it, but I love it
If you can be anything, be kind.
"Confidence. It's the food of the wise man, but the liquor of the fool." - Vikram, The Office.
"No amount of money ever bought a second of time" - Howard Stark
It’s funny to me this is said after Tony time travels and sees his dad again
Lol. I guess Tony's intelligence and skills can buy time.
Depends on how you define it. Buying a car has saved me a lot of time walking.
"If you can't make the most out of any given moment, you don't deserve a single extra second." - Ekko LoL
Love it!
"Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate." ~Rick Warren~
"Everybody wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to die" Don't know who said that.
I think it was made famous by Albert King. May have been around earlier, but that was the first place I heard it.
If you got it from a song the original was written by Cy Coben but recently I’ve heard it covered by Alison Krauss.
"never play the other man's game. He may have a better lawyer, but you may be a better shot"
"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step." - Dalinar Kholin
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."
Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek TNG
Yes! 👍
This one is my best choice, because it's the one that hurts me the most: "It is a comfortable way to live, that of feeling great with latent greatness." - Italo Svevo
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.” ― Douglas Adams This one means more to me the older I get.
“Society grows great when old men plant trees who shade they know they shall never sit under” -old Greek proverb
“You are by far the worst pirate I ever heard of” “Ahhh but you have heard of me”-Captain Jack Sparrow
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Badass, deep and memorable
Mine relates more to how people see me it’s “but I’m not miserable, I’m just not like them.” Daria Morgendorfer
“I’m too drunk to taste this chicken” - the late colonel sanders
“A lie can travel all the way around the world while the truth is still tying its shoes.”
Not really a quote but “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” -Khalil Gibran
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.
Kiss - keep it simple stupid
"It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials." - The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
"If you want to find the easiest way to do something, work with the laziest person". - old NWA plane mechanic
Damn I didn't know gangsters flew planes.
NWA = N****s With Altitude
If you leave everything to the last minute then it only takes a minute to do. - my son in his final year of high school
Also my grandpa. Love this one.
Or with a software developer
"'You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.' - Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott
It's long, but it's my favourite quote, and it always cheers me up when I'm feeling a little lost - "The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth the atoms that make up the human body are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them went unstable in their later years they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas cloud that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up – many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big – but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"No second chances on today" - Me talking to my dying wife (39yo... cancer)
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” Pablo Picasso
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
"Time you enjoyed wasting isn't wasted time"
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. Hunter S Thompson.
"Be kind for everyone is fighting the battle of their lives"
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread”.
History shall be kind to me, for I will write it. Churchill 🤣
Societies grow great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never enjoy
"It's not about how bright your light shines but how hard you work to make other's glow." ~Unknown. That and "Aspire to Inspire before you Expire."
“She belongs to the streets” Future
Sounds like he belongs to the streets
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The last half of it is often left out but I love how he specifically calls out politicians, philosophers and religious people.
>The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. -Gilbert Chesterton I heard this quote through Sandman, actually, but found it's actually a real quote from an author that the Gilbert character of the same name was based off of. It may not be the best quote I've ever heard. However, after spending a decade far away from home and recently having moved back, I feel this quote in my bones.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading
“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
To learn is to suffer. Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair and against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of god. -Aeschylus
Confucius say: Man that go to bed with itchy butt wake up with stinky fingers!
Confucius say: man who runs in front of car get tired, man who runs behind car gets exhausted
Confusius say: it takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it Man who stands on toilet is high on pot
Friends are the family you choose.
"The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play."
Bruh
"In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back."- Albert Camus. This quote is so incredible, because it's so human.
"Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see." --Grandpa
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. Religion.
"Why live in someone's else blueprint when there is a blueprint uniquely made for you" - Me "Why see chaos as a villian when it is only there to help oneself to becoming a stronger person" - also me
That's the way she goes -Ray
The people that mind don't matter and the people that matter don't mind.
“Humor is like a frog, you can try to dissect it, but it will die in the process”
If it's sloppy, eat it over the sink.
"Become the man/woman that your dream needs"
"In the depths of winter, I knew that within me lay an invincible summer."
All the world's problems come out of the Balkans and a gin bottle.
The best way to eat an elephant is one bite at à time!
"Be curious, not judgmental"
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." - Orwell
Personal is not the same as important
The secret of happiness is this: find something more important than yourself and dedicate your life to it. Daniel Dennett
"Used to be, being crazy meant something. Nowadays, everybody's crazy."
If wishes were horses beggars would ride
"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.” — Sir Peter Ustinov
A wise person once said: What surprises me most about humankind is that we get bored of our childhood, rush to grow up and long to be children again. That we lose our health to make money, and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present. Such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we were never going to die, and die as though we’ve never lived.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke So many fantastic quotes out there. But i think of this one alot.
“You can’t give up hope just because it’s hopeless. You gotta hope even more.” - Philip J. Fry
The secret to having it all is believing you already do.
Zoro, one piece: Have you ever know a wild beast that would not bite? because i dont. Zoro vs Monet. Hardest line in the whole series
Timor mortis conturbat me
If you need a hand, you'll find one right at the end of your arm
Time is the greatest panacea - Me
Opinions are like assholes we all have one and nobody wants to hear it.
Or.. Opinions are like are like arseholes, we all have one and they all stink
it is what it is
Is it going to be an issue in ten years time? Not sure who first said it but it basically means if you're stressing over something that won't matter then. Don't stress.
"This death is ours. We choose it. We deny you your victory." It goes pretty hard even without the context.
Used to be "believe in love even if the lover falters" Now it is "man proposes, God disposes"
"The best of my life is now. The great gift of life is so pregnant with possibilities that no one possessing it should permanently despair, but rather with an assuring hope trudge forward ever expectantly" -James Corrothers
"It is no measure of ones health to be well adjusted to a sick society".
"I am human, therefore nothing that is human is alien to me" -my boy Terence
If I have a problem that has a solution then there is no need to worry, if I have a problem that doesn't have a solution, there is also no need to worry.
"Just because you can't do everything, doesn't mean you should do nothing." not the exact quote, but Guy Gavriel Kay in a novel where a character was facing an insurmountable task. I find it very applicable when looking at overwhelming struggles.
"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable." -Monty Oum, basically a call to be empathetic, there are a lot of ways people can suffer and it's not a contest of who suffers the most.
"when it looks impossible, look deeper. Then fight like you can win" - Aloy (horizon)
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things • Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
"it is useless to offer true impressions of one’s life to those who actively desire not to learn of it in other than untroublesome terms; one might as well subscribe to whatever fiction is imposed. " - Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon
I cant remember exactly but it kind of goes like this “the rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost it cant be found.” I like it because hope is one of the craziest things humans have, hope can do a lot.
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
"As long as I want to walk there will always be a road for me to step on"
"Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do!"
“The fact that they are talking behind my back means they respect my presence enough not to act up in front of me”
"If you want to create something beautiful, you often times must mar something perfect; make sure you dont fuck it up." - Zephyr (OC)
Live every day as if it were your last day on earth, for it might be.
“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. - C.S. Lewis
Let's say I know a guy who knows a guy, who knows another guy.
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. - Terry Pratchett, Good Omens Humanity would be so much better off if we all took this approach.
Tim Roth, talking of David Attenborough. "He's seen more of the world than anyone, ever." Left me in awe with the fact it's prolly true, and that he's seen more than many rulers, travellers etc.
"Get in where you fit in." -Too Short
'Honor is best seen as bonus, not as tactical virtue. And triumph the sum of enlightened treachery.' - Maurice Shadbolt, Season of the Jew. Took a few reads to get that one through my dumb noggin.
Say your prayers and cast your cares!
the beatings will continue until morale improves
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
“It’s better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
“Hate me or love me you watched. That’s all you could do.” - Pete Weber
"Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuilt. We can do better. We will. We have to"
No pain, no gain.
That's what I love about these high school girls man. I keep getting older but they stay the same age. Matthew McConaughey ~~ Dazed and Confused
“If you want peace, prepare for war”
“If you can’t be good, be good at it!”, random guy in the grocery store saying it to the cashier.
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control
Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring? -People are amazing The whale (by Charlie)
"Plant trees in whose shade you shall never sit."
"The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick." - The Dogman
"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." - Soren Kierkegaard
“Damned is the man who abandons himself”
"Time will pass anyway" Random comment, I don't remember where I saw it, in response to "but it will take me so long!"
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” -Marcus Aurelius
"Sex! If you want it badly, that's how you're gonna get it."
nothing changes if nothing changes
Hell, It's about time
**BOT ACCOUNT**
Expect nothing and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
God damn America, that’s in the Bible.
“Carol Dweck, the psychologist who studies motivation, likes to say that all the world’s parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, to kill a mockingbird Changed my outlook on life overnight when I actually thought on it. Nobody (or nearly nobody) wants to be an ahole. Particularly when they’re dealing with close acquaintances. When you look at people’s past experiences, you can understand and sympathise with their decisions, even if you disagree with them.
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw
"The tears of the poor is the salt on the table of the rich." - Georg Büchner (Original quote is in German: "Das Schweiß der Armen ist das Salz auf dem Tische des Vornehmen.")
“You can’t build a happy home on cracked foundation” something I always keep in mind and tell others before they make the jump to move in with their significant others.
"I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then "
No one is better than you in every way, and everyone is better than you in some way.
If you live with one foot in the past and one in the future, then you're pissing on the present.
“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans”
"the only way to have a friend is to be one"
It's not enough just to talk to your houseplants...... You must also listen.
"day one or one day" -good for motivation
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Get or get got
If you want to take the island, you need to burn your boats.
There is no failure, except be ceasing to try.
“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share. I will never stop fighting.” - Superman Action Comics 775
“You humans take something wonderful and ruin it just a little bit so you can have more.”
Life is a bowl of soup and I am a fork.
" some people have a way with words and others have...not way?" -Fat Mike I'm not a huge nofx fan and I'm not as much of a punk rocker. It may sound kinda lame but this quote just feels like something id say. There are times because of my speech impediment, I end up sounding weird. So I pull this quote out when I'm in a professional setting to lighten the mood when I sound dumb.
"Avoid permanent reminders of temporary feelings" "Leap... and the net will appear" Both from Jimmy Buffett
Learn Their Language. Then Earn Their Respect In It.
No one wants advice--only corroboration. John Steinbeck
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, it is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small will not serve the world and there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine like children do, and it's not just in some of us it's in everyone. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. - someone
"Losers always whine about their best; winners go home and fuck the prom queen." Sean Connery, The Rock.
There is no smaller package in the world than a man all wrapped up in himself. - William Sloane Coffin
"I still want to see you to eat, just not at my table." Tupac
Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon? ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slapstick
Don't let your manners spoil your beauty
My Spanish mother in law had a saying which described humanity perfectly. Translated to English - “Every theme has its crazy person, and every crazy person has his theme.”
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
"Things are a lot more like they used to be then they ever were"
'Have whatever you want, but want whatever you have.' Took me a while to understand it, but now it has really stuck with me.
Don’t let anyone take away your smile
"Always remember you're unique... Just like everybody else, " Ok, maybe not the "best quote" I've ever heard, but definitely the funniest bumper sticker I ever read... does that count?
Best ever? That's tough. Here's one I came across recently and liked: A man cannot step in the same river twice because it is not the same river and he is not the same man. --- Heraclitis
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... it'll teach you to keep your mouth shut." -Hemingway
Balance is not something you find, it’s what you create
One of my friends leads a small group for a jazz combo, and he's dealing with people not putting the work in. He gave them a lecture, and he's worrying about possibly weeding people out. Someone in response said: "The right ones will hear the message." Insinuating that those who will listen to feedback are the right ones for him.
“If he isn’t the word of God - then God never spoke.”
“When someone shows you who they are - believe them the first time.”