Awesome Quotes

[Omni]

Either from amazing philosphers, or awesome writings, or whatever. I'ma start with some of my favourite fiction. Top three are from Philip Pullman, fourth is from K.J. Parker (Engineer Trilogy).

“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky pen, use it. If you speak with more force and wit when wearing one red sock and one blue one, dress like that. When I’m at work I’m highly superstitious. My own superstition has to do with the voice in which the story comes out. I believe that every story is attended by its own sprite, whose voice we embody when we tell the tale, and that we tell it more successfully if we approach the sprite with a certain degree of respect and courtesy. These sprites are both old and young, male and female, sentimental and cynical, sceptical and credulous, and so on, and what’s more, they’re completely amoral: like the air-spirits who helped Strong Hans escape from the cave, the story-sprites are willing to serve whoever has the ring, whoever is telling the tale. To the accusation that this is nonsense, that all you need to tell a story is a human imagination, I reply, ‘Of course, and this is the way my imagination works.”

"Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out."

"And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep within him, as if his mind were an ocean that some profound convulsion had disturbed. All his life he'd been alone, and now he must be alone again, and this infinitely precious blessing that had come to him must be taken away almost at once. He felt the wave build higher and steeper to darken the sky, he felt the crest tremble and begin to spill, he felt the great mass crashing down with the whole weight of the ocean behind it against the iron-bound coast of what had to be. And he felt himself crying aloud with more anger and pain than he had ever felt in his life, and he found Lyra just as helpless in his arms. But as the wave expended its force and the waters withdrew, the bleak rocks remained; there was no arguing with fate; neither his despair nor Lyra's had moved them a single inch."

"He could no more turn his back on it than a stone dropped from a tower could refrain from falling. Most men, desiring this thing, wouldn't build the machine, but only because they wouldn't know how to. He knew; so he had to build it. He couldn't pretend it was beyond him, because he knew it wasn't. The little thing - the most powerful, destructive force in the world, the cause of all true suffering, the one thing everybody wants most of all - was pulling on him like the force that pulls the falling stone, and there was nothing he could do to resist it."

[Omni]

These quotes are essentially my collection of reminders of what to be in life:

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. it experiences itself, its thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Einstein

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge” – Charles Darwin

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Robert J. Hanlon

"To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy." - Kahlil Gibran

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."
-Kahlil Gibran

"If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity." -Charles Horton Cooley

"Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness." - Date Masamune

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy." -Aristotle

“An important by-product is always growth. When we serve only ourselves, we are the size of just one person. When another is included our being is, in a sense, doubled, isn’t it? This is the chief satisfaction in loving service. If we have this relationship with our community, we stretch to include it. If we love-and-serve our country, in a sense we ARE our country. If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?” -Sarah Patton-Boyle

“How is a man to find where he belongs in life? The more original he is, the less likely is he to find his place prepared for him. He must not expect to see from the beginning what mould his life will take... The power to work on faith is what distinguishes great men.” -Charles Horton Cooley

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'." -Isaac Asimov

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." -Winston Churchill

“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality.”
-James George Frazer

[Thaal Sinestro]

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel

[Omni]

To shift mood, here is one of my favourite quotes from my favourite TV show, Trailer Park Boys:

"There's only fuckin' one explanation man I'm telling you right now. Maybe two. I could've fallen down tripped over myself I dunno gun went off pissed on myself guns fuckin' going off big time. Or, GHOSTS!"

[Zack Fair]

This one from Theodore Roosevelt is my all time favorite.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

[Mako]

"Yolo, you only live once but with dat booty you live twice."- H20Delirious

[The Spy]

I love this one.

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

[Dean Winchester]

From one of my favourite novels.


"The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

[Dean Winchester]

Also this one! This one speaks to me on a very personal level.


“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

(Also Richard Morgan is the Author of the book. Altered Carbon is the title. GO READ IT RIGHT MEOW!)

[Gamzee Makara]

My contribution to this for now:

"Suddenly...Hellish High water!"
--- Dark Link

[Demetri Malius]

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…"
-Timothy Leary

[Trixie]

Men. Good stuff there.

[Zack Fair]

"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." - Alexander the Great

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." - Colin Powell

“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement” - Calvin Coolidge

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

[Omni]

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…"
-Timothy Leary

Stealing this

[Demetri Malius]

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…"
-Timothy Leary

Stealing this

keptic: tell me what makes you cry omni

[Jak Mar]

I'm learning more as i grow older in life,its not about how many punches that you throw in a fight. its about why your throwing em and if you're throwing them right

Life consists of two things, Pain and Will. The pain to strengthen our will and the will to go through the pain

I am going to make it through any situation you put before me because I'll never go down without a fight *~ Stephanie Keith~*

Thats IT!!! Im tired of these damn lemons! LIFE-I Demand you give me something i can make Coffee out of!

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.--Eleanor Roosevelt

Never give in, Never give up, Never let your head hang low. Always fight for the top and you will succeed with your best effort.

Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches and sometimes ya gotta throw 'em!

You're stronger than you think, smarter than you know and braver than you believe. Never back down. Never surrender.

You're not finished When you're defeated.You're finished When You Quit.

"I'm pretty, not beautiful. I sin but I'm not the devil. I'm good but not an angel" Marilyn Monroe

Never give up, Never give in, because we don't know whats waiting in the end.

And now my favorite movie quotes:

Fake it until you Make it. - Unbroken Quote
The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves." (Sarah/ John Connor)
I know now why you cry, and it is something I can never do Arnold/ T800

Video game quotes from the Jak series and a few more:

Look... sand cannot keep a shape by itself, but add water and it becomes malleable. Fate can be such If you add the right elements. - Damas/Jak 3
'm very proud to have been by your side in the end. This world is not yet out of heroes. Damas Jak 3

[Tartaros]

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And … the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned." - Douglas Adams

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality." - John F. Kennedy

"Bisogna che si levi di buon'ora chi desidera piacere a tutti." - Italian Proverb (roughly translated to "He who wishes to please everyone must rise early.")

"War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, kings would not play at." - William Cowper