Quotes

[The Sum of Awe]

Share some of the quotes that keep you going

"You are where you need to be. Just breath."

 

[WyattDerp]

"I saw a human pyramid once. It was totally unnecessary." -- Mitch Hedberg

It's the reason I'm an anarchist.

 

[Me Myself]

" dont do seeking a reward. Dont do escaping a punishment. Just do"

 

[Wirey]

"Ninjas killed my family. I need money for karate lessons"

Sign a homeless guy had in NY.

 

[4consideration]

"This, too, shall pass."

 

[England my lionheart]

I love Nelson Mandela

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

Nelson Mandela

 

[Jainarayan]

I tan i epi tas literally "Either this or on this" in ancient Greek. It refers to a Spartan warrior's shield handed it to him by his wife or mother before battle, meaning come back carrying it having won, or being carried on it (dead). No Spartan warrior would ever flee battle or return non-victorious, it was to the death.

 

[Panda]

My signature is a favorite of mine.

 

[England my lionheart]

I,not events,have the power to make me happy or unhappy.I can choose which it shall be.Yesterday is dead,tommorow hasn't arrived yet.I have just one day,today,and i'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx.

 

[WyattDerp]

Nearly fell off my chair laughing!

The God who made New Hampshire
Taunted the lofty land
With little men

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing

 

[WyattDerp]

Seriously though, from the same poem:

The horseman serves the horse,
The neatherd serves the neat,
The merchant serves the purse,
The eater serves his meat;
'T is the day of the chattel,
Web to weave, and corn to grind;
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.

There are two laws discrete,
Not reconciled,--
Law for man, and law for thing;
The last builds town and fleet,
But it runs wild,
And doth the man unking.
'T is fit the forest fall,
The steep be graded,
The mountain tunnelled,
The sand shaded,
The orchard planted,
The glebe tilled,
The prairie granted,
The steamer built.

Let man serve law for man;
Live for friendship, live for love,
For truth's and harmony's behoof;
The state may follow how it can,
As Olympus follows Jove.

 

[bobhikes]

C'est la vie. My paternal grandmother was French Canadian.

I like my life. Said daily, thought much more often.

 

[WyattDerp]

[..] if one is in touch with one's own unconscious reality, I think one would have to admit that in all of us there is a piece of Eichmann, and if you ask why, on what basis do I say this, then I would ask you wether you have lost your appetite when you read that in India people were starving, or wether you have gone on eating. As soon as you have not lost your appetite, when you knew other people were starving, then your heart has hardened, and in principle, you have done the same which Eichmann did.

I don't think, that if we are really in touch with the inner reality of ourselves, that there is any crime, or perhaps any virtue, which we cannot discover in ourselves. We shut ourselves [off] from the awareness of our inner reality, we project the evil to our opponents and enemies, and believe that the good is in ourselves; indidivually, nationally, and group-wise in general.

But if you can really see that every one of us, carries all of humanity, the good and the evil, within himself, then indeed is very hard to be a fanatic, then indeed it's very hard to be a judge, then indeed would follow, a deep understanding, if not love, of your fellow man. Which is part of being truly a person.

Erich Fromm (source)

 

[Willamena]

"So this is how democracy dies. To thunderous applause."

Relevant even today.

 

[Leftimies]

My old, too often recited favourite:

"You are the universe experiencing itself".

 

[Willamena]

Okay, another good one:

"Darn those socks, anyways!"

 

[Monk Of Reason]

"I've got a jar of dirt! And guess whats inside it!"

 

[adi2d]

Two rules in life

Rule 1 : sh## happens.

Rule 2. You can't change rule 1

 

[Circle_One]

"This, too, shall pass."

This was going to be mine as well.

I'll go with this instead: "We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -Immanuel Kant

It's a quote I've tried to live my life and my social circle by.

 

[Monk Of Reason]

"Wanna know how to be a multi-millionair? Well step 1 is get a million dollars"