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.

Nothus,
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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” -Tolstoy

jagged,

No one is ever on their deathbed wishing they had worked more.

(And quotes of that ilk). It’s genuinely something that informs the structure of every day for me.

Sept,

We know what to do. But we do not do.

I don’t remember the movie it’s from, but that was hell of a movie!

pollocks,

I don’t know where this quote originated. I first heard it from my future SO and it goes something like this

“It is human nature to assume that once we have found the answer, we will find peace. Instead, one must find peace first, then the answer will come.”

DarthVi,
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“Why not? You and I are eccentrics. We’re certainly not typical of the people living on Terminus. As for criminals, that’s a matter of definition. And if criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses, I’m willing to pay it. I demand the price be paid. […] You can’t have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don’t see how you can have on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry.” - Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

frippa,
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“if you poo you also pee, but if you pee you don’t always poo”

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