Mine is “The world laughs in flowers” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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If you want to know what a person is like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not equals.
"Stay weird. Stay rude. Stay alive." ~Crime Junkies. Kept me safe in the city at night.
Literally every quote by ~John Green~ touches my soul.
I know the Cowboy Junkies but have never heard of the Crime Junkies. Punk band?
"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." ~ John Green.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
(Quote is said to have been made by Einstein, but it's disputed. Not sure who actually said this)
“Originality has been copied for centuries”
By an unknown artist who had drawn below their own version of Mona Lisa.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I guess I just wasn’t made for these times.” -Brian Wilson
I just… get it.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Hunter S. Thompson
We’re just two lost souls,
swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year
“Evil? I’ve fought evil and it was easy: I shot it. It’s apathy I can’t stand.” - Padmé Amidala
I don't know if this really counts as a quote, but: "I don't WANT to survive. I want to LIVE" ~ Captain B. McCrea
Those who glimmer the brightest have been through the darkest of the dark.
“Is it terrifying?”
“No I don’t think so, it’s just the way it is you know? Everything must come to an end, the drip finally stopped”
“See you on the other side”
“Oh Bojack no…there is no other side”
-Bojack horseman..Episode name is “the view from halfway down”
Completely not inspirational, but
Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons; what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down... with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
From Portal 2
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and all is well...
I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done.
David Goggins
I repeat this to myself when I have anxiety attacks, it helps me to calm down:
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is God's gift/a gift- that's why they call it the present."
Idk but it works
Two in the hand is better than one in the bush.
And above all. "There is no sex in the champagne room."
"Expectations are infinite.
Time is finite.
You are always choosing.
Choose well." (Laura Vanderkam)
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
G.K. Chesterton
A toast;
"Eat, drink, and may your joy be unrefined"
-Tim Moore as Madam Deborah in 'Boy, What a Girl'
Specialization is for insects -Robert Heinlein.
This reflects the belief that people should have varied useful skills. Being forced to specialize in any particular field at too young an age can stifle creativity and leave gaping holes in your everyday common sense.
i know my name.
not my story.
you know what i have done.
not what i have been through.
if you were in my shoes you would have fell the first step.
or.
i don't have and attitude problem you have a problem with my attitude and that ain't my problem.
