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[dreamscape1111]

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then,
for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ―Harriet Stowe

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ―Japanese proverb

Failure is an event, never a person. ―Zig Ziglar

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. ―Marian Edelman

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ―Dale Carnegie

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ―Lao Tzu

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what he does with what happens to him. ―Aldous Huxley

There is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ―William Shakespeare

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. ―Oliver Goldsmith

Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. ―J. Marriott

 

[Braindead Atheist]

this belongs in the recovery thread.

 

[dreamscape1111]

 

[dreamscape1111]

 

[dreamscape1111]

"My own understanding is that people who commit suicide are the most sensitive people in the world, very intelligent. Because of their sensitivity, because of their intelligence, they find it difficult to cope with this neurotic world.

In this neurotic world, if you are sane, sensitive, intelligent, either you have to go mad, or you have to commit suicide – or you have to become a sannyasin, a meditator, a seeker. What else is there?

People commit suicide because they are feeling stuck and they don't see any way out.

Intelligence means seeing deeply into things. Has your life any point? Has your life any joy? Has your life any poetry in it? Has your life any creativity in it? Do you feel grateful that you are here? Do you feel grateful that you were born? Can you thank existence? Can you say with your whole heart that it is a blessing?

It is a very, very natural idea when you are intelligent. Intelligent people commit suicide. And those who are even more intelligent than the intelligent people take sannyas. They start creating a meaning, they start creating a significance, they start living. Why miss this opportunity?

He who has so confronted his death is stabbed awake thereby. He perceives himself now as an individual distinct from the mass, and is prepared to take over responsibility for his own life. In this way, we decide for authentic against inauthentic existence. We emerge from the mass and become ourselves at last.

Remember, I am not saying that you should go and commit suicide. I am saying that your life, as it is, is leading you towards suicide. Change it. And contemplate death. It can come any moment, so don't think that it is morbid to think about death.

Suffering is created by ideas which don't go with reality; bliss is created when you have ideas which go with reality. Bliss is a coherence between you and the truth; suffering is a dichotomy, a division between you and the truth. When you are not moving with truth you are in hell; when you are moving with truth you are in heaven – that's all. And that is the whole thing to be understood."

—Osho, Next Time You Feel Suicidal excerpts

 

[epic]

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ―Franklin D. Roosevelt

This quote hits differently on this forum

 

[Wisdom3_1-9]

this belongs in the recovery thread.

I'm not actually sure this does belong in Recovery. Yes, some of the more recent posts have been uplifting and definitely feel like they belong in Recovery, but the first page seems a mix of suicide/death quotes, sarcasm/dark humor, and some positivity. Perhaps this is best suited to Off Topic?

 

[BrailleTogepi]

Intelligence means seeing deeply into things. Has your life any point? Has your life any joy? Has your life any poetry in it? Has your life any creativity in it? Do you feel grateful that you are here? Do you feel grateful that you were born? Can you thank existence? Can you say with your whole heart that it is a blessing?

I don't want to kill the mood or anything but... I've always struggled to understand the concept of being grateful that I exist. My life has plenty of meaning, joy, poetry, creativity, but if I wasn't here to experience that, it's not like I would be missing it, you know? It's just stuff that helps make life bearable and more worth living since I'm already here whether I like it or not. I'd love to hear some alternate perspectives on this, but I apologize if that's too off-topic for this thread

 

[dreamscape1111]

This quote hits differently on this forum

lol, i know, i know, even tried it, but you get the point... :D

I'm not actually sure this does belong in Recovery. Yes, some of the more recent posts have been uplifting and definitely feel like they belong in Recovery, but the first page seems a mix of suicide/death quotes, sarcasm/dark humor, and some positivity. Perhaps this is best suited to Off Topic?

i was searching the forum for a quotes megathread, since another psychology forum i follow has such a nice and uplifting one i felt like creating one here as well, but this one already existed. could create another one.