Quotes you live by

[Foghot]

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

-Some movie I can't remember the name of.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Life is divided into three terms, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, to live better in the future.

~William Wordsworth

 

[WonderWino]

Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success, don't hesitate to step on them

 

[*extremely mom voice*]

Every day babes

 

[I__quit]

"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
Max Ehrmann's The Desiderata

"So it goes. People aren't suppose to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

 

[Lmove]

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

 

[Whatevermancer]

The game is fun. If it's not fun, why bother?

- Reggie Fils-Aime.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

Better to live as king of beasts than as a lamb, scared and weak

 

[Slimy Time]

My old man has quite a few over the years that I try to stick to.

-"Put things in proper perspective"
-"Stop worrying. End of the day we all die, only thing you can do at the end of your life is ask yourself: Did I do the best I could? If yes, then you have succeeded"
-"Listen to what is being said, not what you want to hear, engage brain, don't react emotionally, then do/open mouth"
-"Stop caring about what other people think about you. Not even us (parents), your future spouse or your future kids. If you live your life caring and worrying about what others think, you will be miserable. Parents die, spouses die or divorce and kids grow up. The only person you have to live with at the end of the day is yourself."
-"Always do your best, at the end, there is nothing else more than you can do or people can ask for other than your best".

A lot of repetition, I know. Does help me keep a sense of perspective and make sure I always try to do things to my satisfaction. Explains why I'm a nihilistic bastard.

 

[HexFag]

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go arwy"
--Robert Burns in "To a Mouse"

It helps keep your expectations in the only place they should be, six feet in the dirt.

 

[Lensherr]

“Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.”

 

[heyitsmike]

Sometimes you win with winners. Sometimes you lose with winners. But never lose with losers.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

"America is built on speed, hot,nasty, badass speed." -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[TheImportantFart]

"Lighten the hell up and laugh. Life is brutal and short. On your death bed, I doubt you’ll regret you didn’t point enough fingers at others nearly as much as you will the gnawing sense that you didn’t laugh enough." - Jim Goad

 

[Darksy DePhil]

“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?”​

-Mark Twain

 

[Pizdec]

"The most courageous thing to do is think for yourself. Aloud"

"I don't care about what you think about me, because I don't think about you at all."

- Coco Chanel.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

”if they attack you personally, it means they have not a single argument left” - Margaret Thatcher

 

[Darksy DePhil]

"You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends."​

-Robert Anton Wilson

 

[The Curmudgeon]

"Hell is other people." ~ Jean Paul Sartre (I know this quote is overused and Sartre is overrated, but I still like it.)
"Hell is also yourself." ~ Robert Crumb
"Hell is my only home." ~ Shinran

Those are pretty negative, aren't they? I'm Hell, you're Hell, and everything is Hell! However, I just see these as realistic. I also have a positive follow up to them!

"The path to Paradise begins in Hell." ~ Dante Alighieri

Life can be Hell, but if we try hard enough it can be Heaven too.