"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’"
~ Kurt Vonnegut
"No matter where you go, there you are"
– Dr. Buckaroo Banzai
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett
“The only common factor in all of your failures, is you.”
-Meh, I don’t know
You don’t know? Sheesh, what a failure. 😀
I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.
"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"
Also:
"Do what you can't"
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
Good is not the enemy of perfect.
But the perfect is the enemy of the good.
No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX
It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute
You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.
You fucked up. You trusted us.
From Animal House
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
"A day may come when the courage of men fails when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.” An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight"
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
― Vladimir Lenin
“The American public knows what it wants, and it deserves to get it… good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken
“Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul and set you free from all your sins. Sometimes a woman is a heroin addiction - you are a junkie, you are my best friend. Let her go.” - The Bad Examples
Life is too short to please everybody.
Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.
Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). Said on his deathbed, when asked by a priest if he forgave his enemies.
Not that I’m in favor if shooting people :) It’s just so deliciously unapologetic and I love the setting in which it is said.
Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM
I can't pick just one.
Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night
-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.
When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture
Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.
"Be careful what you wish for"
--Aesop--
"...because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this... bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye."
george lucas' greatest accomplishment is that he created an alien that accurately represented seven racial stereotypes
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
"Man was born free, but everywhere is in chains." -Rousseau
If we could understand but a single flower it could change our lives.
No clear attribution I could find.
"Don't whistle while you're pissing." ---Hagbard Celine - Illuminatus by Robert Anton Wilson
My personal favorite is (and I'm probably messing it up because it's been 30 years...):
If there were more bloody noses, there'd be fewer wars.
When I read that, I was finally able to reconcile my pacifist upbringing with the reality I was observing.
“Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re kidding.” TMBG
“Everything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.” Abe Lincoln
“Someone told me once that there’s a right and wrong, and that punishment would come to those who dare to cross the line. But it must not be true for jerk-offs like you. Maybe it takes longer to catch a total asshole. But I’m tired of waiting. Maybe it’s just bullshit and I should play God, and shoot you myself.”
Maynard
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