Greatest quotes you have ever heard, or read.
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said:
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Buddha put it this way:
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
Philosopher and Psychologist William James said:
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
The mind is like a hungry infant, it needs to be constantly fed. And what it is fed effects it. So if you want to have a happier life, you have to change your attitude, which requires changing what you think about, which requires changing what you feed your mind with.
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"If it bleeds, we can kill it" - Arnold Schwarznegger
"I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school." --Karl Hess
"Woe to the conquered!" Brennus replied after the Romans complained about his force demanding too much after the (first) Sack of Rome.
"See how much blood a triumph costs. The blood of our enemies is still the blood of men. The true glory is to save it." - King Louis XV
"We will shock the world with our ingratitude." - Prince Felix de Gaule. This one just cracks me up. Russia helped Austria out big time in the Hungarian Uprising of 1848, and Prince Felix said that. Made good on that promise, too. Russia suffered a nasty rebellion not that long after, and Austria didn't help.
"Any day you don't get shot at is a good day. And they might kill you, but at least they won't eat you."
-My stepfather, earlier today.
"I will not yield to Papai46 or CrazedRabbit." - TheAutisticGamer.
"Many that live deserve death. And some that died deserve life. Can you give it to them Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment." Gandalf.
"Don't wait for a miracle to happen, be the miracle that makes things happen" ~I kind of just thought of this a while back as what my life quote would be xD sorry if someone else has already said this(very very likely)!
"I rather be correct than politically correct" - Lee Kuan Yew
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Obey Omid's cat. He's a genius" - Stephen Hawking.
Ja, Ahnuld. "It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." --Thomas Paine
"Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" --Barry Goldwater, (though Karl Hess, his speechwriter actually came up with it)
"Liberty isn't a box into which people are forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can." --Karl Hess : Anarchism Without Hyphens
"I have crippling depression." - Ian Carter
#Vae Victis!
This one reminds me of something Stalin once said: "gratitude is a disease suffered by dogs."
"As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster..."
I was seeking this one:
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
- Maximilien Robespierre
and fell on this one:
"When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is."
- Maximilien Robespierre
I didn't saw any mention he said this once, but this one is good.
It may be worded differently depending on the source, but I'm a fan of this bit of Analects wisdom: Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
"Hey, that's pretty good!" - Ian Carter too.
"You know what it feels like to get beaten almost to death, peaceful. It was like I was floating away. But then I woke up again." - Kenny
I don't know why, but that sentence is so powerful, especially in the episode 4 trailer of season 2 of TWD. Hater of Kenny or not, you have to admit that he has some great quotes.
Wait a minute...a little while ago there was someone on these forums with that name. CripplingDepression.
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. It can not be courage unless you're scared." Eddie Rickenbacker
“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Hermann Goering
^ second one reminds me of G.W. Bush Jr's speech to Congress over Iraq having WMDs... hmm..
Now i am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
*two things are infinite:the universe and human stupidity
(albert einstein)
Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million."
with individual stories, the statistics become people-but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. look, see the child's swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, his skeletal limbs: will it make it easier for you to know his name, his age, his dreams, his fears? to see him from the inside? and if it does, are we not doing a disservice to his sister, who lies in the searing dust beside him, a distorted, caricature of a human child? and there, if we feel for them, are they now more important than a thousand other children touched by the same famine, a thousand other young lives who will soon be food for the flies' own myriad squirming children?
(American Gods)
These are some that come to the very top of my head.
"Oh, great! Of course! Here it comes! You can’t keep doing this! You can’t keep doing shitty things, and then feel bad about yourself like that makes it okay! You need to be better! … No! No, BoJack, just stop. You are all the things that are wrong with you. It’s not the alcohol, or the drugs, or any of the shitty things that happened to you in your career, or when you were a kid. It’s you. All right? It’s you. Fuck, man... What else is there to say?" ~ Todd Chavez, Bojack Horseman.
"He always busted my balls. 'You fat, disgusting piece of shit! You make me sick!'. 'Fat-ass, yer nothin' but a waste of skin!'. 'You're so ugly, even your mama don't love you!'. Well, maybe he was right. Maybe I am nothing but a fat, disgusting piece of shit! But you know what? It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... It's all the same once you're dead! And a corpse can't laugh." ~ Eddie Dombrowski, Silent Hill 2.
"You know, the future is in creativity, and that's not something you can just manufacture." ~ Monty Oum
"Who is this cute little lesbian and how tight is her pussy?" ~ Ian Carter also as well.
"I'm gay!" - Ian Hecox
Some G.K. Chesterton quotes.
"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
"It's terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
Why not both?
"Speak American!" - Kenny
Deleted that, as I've seen it phrased better by other people.
At this point we have neither good laws or good restrictions on bad ones (at least where I live). We need a legal system based on minimizing social harm, not maximizing revenue and slave labor for the state.
Nej.
(not swedish at all..)
Not a quote but Invictus is a poem that I learned for a recital and I fell inlove with it:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Also Chaplan's legendary Dictator speech:
"Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations." - Padraig Pearse.
who's this fucking snowball?
"I may be on the side of the angels. But don't think for a second, that I am one of them." -Sherlock
I don't know why I love that quote so much, but I just do.
FINALLY MY SAVED QUOTES CAN COME TO USE!
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
"Just because you're hurt, doesn't mean you get to hurt someone else."
“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
''On your death bed, you are visited by the person you could have been''.
"Death is only the end if you think the story is about you.."
I can't see whats wrong with that sentence.
Beautiful.
What is better, to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?