Is there a book or movie quote that you try to incorporate into your life and behavior? What is it? Why?
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“A wizard is never late nor too early, he arrives exactly when he means to”
- Gandalf 2001
From Dune by Frank Herbert:“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
I often have anxiety , fear, and second guess myself. This is the quote I reference to myself when trying to overcome these feelings.
"We're all stories in the end. So make it a good one, eh" - 11th Doctor, Doctor Who
Be who you are
Say what you feel
Those who mind don't matter
Those who matter don't mind
-Dr. Seuss
The Bible :)
God has all his teachings in that book and I want to follow it best I can. :)
Love ya'll have a nice day :)
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Dumbledore
"Success is the peace of mind that comes from knowing that you have done your best, and that you have done the right thing." - John Wooden (NBA coach).
It baffled me when I first read it. For years I had been told that success is winning/ having academic achievements/ earning money and have possessions & the like. What does he mean by "peace of mind"? What is that? I read it again, and again, and again, and the meaning started to dawn on me.
Now when I face professional challenges, I wonder: "have I done my best?". And when before making a decision, I question myself: "is it the right thing?" If both are "yes", there is, indeed, a peace of mind that comes from it. Wishing you all to experience it :)
"Not just because you are good at something it means you have to do it for the rest of your life" -BoJack Horseman
I have often found myself in situations that have because too comfortable. Everyone needs a little challenge in life, everyday. Try something different.
“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.” -Harvey Specter, Suits
This one seems like a two-for-one because I haven't always been accepting of myself and I really want to succeed. I always want to fight tooth and nail for the ones I love, why not learn to love myself and fight just as hard for my happiness and success.
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
- Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
"Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve" Ginny Weasly, The Half Blood Prince.
“Flaunt the weird” -Alex Fierro, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. It is WAY easier to be myself and learn to give no f***s if people think I’m weird. I AM weird. Last year I tried so hard to fit in and just, couldn’t. Turns out, people like the real me with all of the craziness.
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red."
-Clive Barker from Books of Blood
I love this quote so much that it's tattooed on me. I love the wordplay but beyond that knowing each person is their own book and their stories and experiences are different from mine helps me to stay grounded. We are only the main character in our own story after all.
"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there..." From The Go between..... Hindsight is a wonderful thing, we can overthink events from our past..... But we can never really comprehend why?
I've heard in a few different movies something to the effect of, "Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's deciding that what you want to do for yourself or for someone else, is more important." Whenever I feel afraid, I remember that philosophy.
From Team America World Police:
"See, there are three kinds of people: d**ks, p***ies and a****les. P*****s think everyone can get along and d**ks just want to f**k all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your a****les. And all the a****les want is to s**t all over everything. So p*****s may get mad at d**ks once in a while because, p****es get f**ked by d**ks. But d**ks also f**k a****les! And if they didn't f**k the a****les, you know what you'd get? You'd get your d*ck and your p**sy all covered in s**t!"
This changed my outlook on life.
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
Couldn't edit for completion on my phone, but I am not a natural risk-taker, and I find this so motivating to push myself forward.
Our lives are not our own.
From womb to tomb,
we are bound to others...past and present.
And by each crime and every kindness,
we birth our future...
-Somni 451
From Cloud Atlas
'I'm too old for this s**t!' by Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon. (I'll become 40 this year)
Wear sunscreen. (Poem).
"Always look on the bright side of life..."
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
"Sometimes, I Do Feel Like I'm A Failure. Like There's No Hope For Me. But Even So, I'm Not Gonna Give Up."
"If All You Ever Do Is Look Down On People, You Won't Be Able To Recognize Your Own Weaknesses"
Both from the same place. I love both. They both have gotten me so far in life.
“why are straight people like this?” Heartstopper. I love that series so much that I’m practically obsessed with it.
“Maybe greatness isn’t about being immortal, or glorious, or popular-it’s about choosing to fight for the greater good of the world, even when the world’s turned its back on you.” -The Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms.
One of my favorite book quotes. A lot of kids my age are so focused on trying to be popular, but I know in 5 or so years, it's not going to matter who was the most popular, but what the world we're suddenly going into is like, and how we're going to navigate it.
Pugsley: “But how do I know if everything is going to be okay?”
Norma: “You won’t.”
Excerpt from Dead end: Paranormal Park
"Snozzberries? Who ever heard of a snozzberry?"
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams."
Wonka to Veruka Salt
Originally from Arthur O'Shaughnessy's 1873 poem, "Ode".
In Wonka's world, snozzberries are a thing. One might say:
You are the Creator of your reality.
"Never do a thing you can't undo, until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it."
-The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
Keep moving forward - Meet the Robinsons
Just pray about it - Denise Woods(my mom)
From Locke, 2013
"Stefan is a good man.
He will fix the pit and check the others.
All 12 pumps will work.
The stop-go will run.
The north, south, east and west gates
will all take their quarter of concrete.
The baby will be born.
And Katrina will be okay.
In the morning she will be okay.
That is how it can be. That is my prayer."
Sure this is about a massive concrete pour on a gigantic job site, and also a serious issue concerning Katrina. But there's a more important thing happening here on a higher level. Locke is a very strong, capable and powerful man who juggles 100 balls at a time and is well rewarded for it. This passage is an admission that there are several things happening right now that he can't fully control. Any one of them could go sour against his wishes, and with unthinkable consequences. This passage demonstrates surrender. So he describes a list of his desired outcomes. He asserts the absolute fact that "This is how it can be." And he asks for assistance.
"And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.
"And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it."
So he began to climb the tree.
Some might find this quite profound, depending on their depth of understanding of how this reality really works.
“Language”- Avengers: Age of Ultron.
I could list off a whole bunch of inspirational quotes from my favorite books and movies, but this is the only one actually I live by, whereas I just want to live by all the others.
Teach me to care and not to care
Teach me to be still.
Clarice Starling misremembering TS Elliott
“ when you break rules, break ‘em good and hard”
Nanny Og, Terry Pratchett
“Strike down evil with the sword of teamwork and the hammer of not-bickering.” ~ Mystery Men.
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
What's that?
Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Ok, Joke. I don't actually live by this. But it's an amazing quote.
