Quotes you live by

[KingGeedorah]

"Wu-Tang is for the children!" - 'Ol Dirty Bastard

 

[Handsome Pete]

"Anything for a weird life." - President Zaphod Beeblebrox

 

[dabluearmedbandit]

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

I made up a some of my own. Here's one.

"Fortune cookies aren't sweet until you read the fortune. If your fortune is sweet, your life has a good sense of taste. If your fortune isn't sweet, your life is sour, salty, and oh so bitter."

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

—Champthom in the super secret supporter advice thread

 

[tomgirl4life]

Not really a quote of Voltaire's, but a general summary of his outlook that I try to live by.

"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

 

[demaster]

If you can't win, change the rules.
If you can't change the rules, then ignore them.

 

[Yawning Asperchu]

A couple of quotes come to mind.

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar"- Abraham Lincoln

"You could be the hero of your own story that woke up today...You can be the hero of your own story that at 40 years of age stopped, got out of bed and said 'I'm not gonna doing this anymore, I'm doing things differently. I am going to figure this out'...People have to realize that you are NOT your past, you are not all the times you fucked up...you are a person who has learned from a great deal of experience and if you learn from it correctly you will have a happier life"- Joe Rogan

 

[chimpburgers]

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

 

[Hawker Hurricane]

"He who has a why to live can withstand almost any how." - Nietzsche
-and-
"Life without music would be a mistake." - Nietzsche

 

[demaster]

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Sun Tzu

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

 

[niggers]

 

[Roger Rabbit]

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

 

[autisticdragonkin]

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Randy Lahey]

"Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't, cause that's the way she goes." -Ray

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember, you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter” ~ John Gotti

 

[autisticdragonkin]

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

 

[Conrix]

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

It's ironic that the stupid hippies that quote this have to fight the existing reality because their tree hugging idea of going back to hunter-gatherer days or some shit in itself is obsolete.

 

[Overcast]

A lot of the quotes made by the final boss of Persona 3 resonate with me for some reason.

"Only courage in the face of doubt can lead one to the answer"

"To find the one true path, one must seek guidance amidst uncertainty..."

"It requires great courage to look at oneself honestly, and forge one's own path..."

"In the face of disaster lies opportunity for renewal."

 

[demaster]

"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets."
- Baron Rothschild