Quotes you live by

[b0s]

Post your favourite quotes by anyone, with any meaning.
You can post the meaning of the quotes as well, or how they make you feel.
'Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself.' - Blaise Pascal
'How hollow and foul is the heart of man' - Blaise Pascal
'How many kingdoms know nothing of us.' - Blaise Pascal
I like this one in particular because it is a commentary on how so many people overestimate their own importance in the grand scheme of things.

 

[UninformedLover]

"Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading" - Anonymous

I read it somewhere online and it stuck with me ever since. I personally think it's really nice and can put snobby grammar police in their place lol

 

[SnowWhite]

"Even those in misery can better the days of those around them." - College Mate

I remember when he first said this to me. It made me realise that no matter what I'm going through or battling with, a simple smile as you walk past somebody, however forced it may be, can make their day just a little bit better.

 

[charlottewilts]

"Don't pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare." - Bungou Stray Dogs

it's so true. i lived by that for a while and life was much more bearable.

 

[BooGirl]

"What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere."

 

[SnowWhite]

"What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere."

Wow, love this quote. I could imagine this opening the eyes of people who aren't exposed to the flaws of this world.
Where is it from?

 

[BooGirl]

Wow, love this quote. I could imagine this opening the eyes of people who aren't exposed to the flaws of this world.
Where is it from?

It's from Catch-22. Super good book, although it is about a guy who really wants to live, so it's a bit of a mismatch haha

 

[SnowWhite]

It's from Catch-22. Super good book, although it is about a guy who really wants to live, so it's a bit of a mismatch haha

Maybe a bit of a mismatch, but with such a powerful quote like that I might have to have a look at it :P.

 

[BooGirl]

Maybe a bit of a mismatch, but with such a powerful quote like that I might have to have a look at it :P.

You won't be disappointed! It's a bit of a hard book to read at first, since it's all out of order chronologically, but when it all comes together, it's beautiful.

 

[Freedom Believer]

"It's letting go...to begin again." - Fallout: New Vegas: Dead Money

 

[cosmicpixiedust]

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."

I don't know if I live by it, I do really like it though and think that it holds a lot of meaning.

Another one I've always liked (for you MM fans as well):

"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."

 

[Science Is Scary]

"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time."

I tend to think that no suicide method will satisfy everyone. Even if everyone could agree that a peaceful pill or drion pill had been created, some people still wouldn't like it.
And no single path to recovery will satisfy everyone's needs.
And no post on this forum will satisfy everyone.

See also:

No Silver Bullet.
Wicked Problem.
Pareto frontier.
Model-dependent realism.

 

[marcusuk63]

Whether if you are an optimist or pessimist the outcome will still be the same but the optimist will have a better time.
(I think we all know which camp we are in )

 

[WhyIsLife56]

 

[Finis Autem Spero]

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. – Albert Schweitzer

 

[passenger27]

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford

 

[BipolarExpat]

Random youtube quote under Chris Cornell's (lyrically haunting) "Like a Stone" vid.

 

[BPD Barbie]

Not a quote but I watch this video often

 

[Dead beat dad]

"We make a living from what we get. We make a life from what we give"
Winston Churchill

"The better you look, the more you see" Victor Ward/ Johnson

 

[Epsilon0]

"I am tired.
Do you have an aspirin?
My back hurts."


Quote by yours truly
I literally live by it.

 

[Deformationalplagio]

You are what you eat, some days i eat nothing.

 

[thereisnoneed]

the entire universe has one goal, which is to reach non-being. It achieves this through the continuous weakening of the sum of its forces. Hence entropy.

Mainlander Philipp

 

[a.n.kirillov]

"I wish I hadn't thrown away all the notebooks I filled with quotes I collected from my favorite authors over the years"
- Me

 

[Kikoo Loool]

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

 

[Soul]

What is a good man?
The teacher of a bad man.
What is a bad man?
A good man's charge.
— I Ching

 

[Meena]

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Sad but so true

 

[Aeathelina]

"Forever I shall be a stranger to myself." Albert Camus.
I strongly feel no matter what happens in my life I'll ever know who I really am.

 

[Dear Flabby]

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E.B. White
Author of "Charlotte's Web"

 

[mesohappy]

Two tears in a bucket-
Motherfuck it.
-some guy

 

[itsmeagain]

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This makes so much sense to me, it almost bothers me that other people are so pro-life that they can't offer enough thought to something so grim to realize that it's true, and, in itself, isn't even incorrect. What is this from?