What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

trouser_mouse,
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“Our eyes are always pointing at things we are interested in approaching, or investigating, or looking at, or having.” Jordan Peterson

Xanvial,

“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”

superschurke,

I’m all for criticizing the ignorance of the ruling class in the second part of the quote, but the first part is just all toxic masculinity.

runner_g,

Failure is always an option. - Adam Savage

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

God gives his silliest battles to his funniest clowns

niktemadur,
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"Live on, survive, for the Earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention."

Salman Rushdie, from The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

A more recent one, meditation-related, short and simple and I have no idea who said it, I just happened to catch it a couple of years ago on a website-that-shall-not-be-named:

"I am not my thoughts."

fckreddit,

I have BPD. I remember someone telling something similar on reddit. “I am not my diagnosis.”

bogus1,

Great quote for me from the OP. Thank you.
This prompts me to adjust it to fit my needs: "I am my thoughts, so I better craft my thoughts in a better way."

Sandbag,

“Be Better”, a college professor/mentor always aid that to me. Whenever I think about taking the easy way or the shortest way I just say “Be Better” and then do the right thing.

dudebro,

Love that.

venusenvy47,

“Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.”

PowerSeries,

My dad said that a lot

venusenvy47,

It’s from a comedian but I can’t remember who. Maybe Dennis Miller?

Dressedlikeapenguin,

“Everyday is somebody’s first day.” I think of it like a more generous Hanlon’s Razor “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Especially when an employee is perhaps not doing a good job or is slow. If it was my first day on the job, I’d like a little consideration.

kszug,
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Every single quote from Bojack Horseman

dudebro,

I like the one about not being able to save everyone who is drowning.

Some people will just try to pull you down with them.

I recommend watching ‘Undone.’ It’s another show by Bojack’s creator, Raphael Bob-Waksburg.

You can stream it for free here: www6.f2movies.to

UnperfectOne,

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

UnknownQuantity,

Never pee against the wind.

Catsrules,

Or on an electric fence.

jmsw22,

“Knowledge is power; France is bacon”

neilrodgers75,

“Good things come to those who wait”. It has been true so many times in my life.

CopernicusQwark,

“A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us.

But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fail, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination.”

Dalinar Kholin, from the Stormlight Archive

Squirrel,
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If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man.

dudebro,

Great point.

GrayBackgroundMusic,

Journey before destination.

I read this as we’re all gonna die someday, the destination is the same, the path there is the important part.

icesentry,

The most important step a man can take? It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

CopernicusQwark,

Honestly, there's so many fantastic quotes from Dalinar in this book, it was hard to limit myself to just one.

icesentry,

Yeah, absolutely, that one stuck with me and helped me through some hard times but there’s so many other good quotes that I’ll never forget.

cmoney,

When you look at someone through rose colored glasses, the red flags just look like flags.

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