“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
- Nelson Mandela
I struggle with this one a lot, I definitely have a lot of resentment built up as I’ve grown up. But holding all in just makes my life worse, it only hurts me. It is mental prison of sorts. I think there’s another Mandela quote that states exactly that as well.
I think of that quote often as well but now I’m seeing it differently than before.
I interpreted it as advice to merely let resentment go but it could just as easily instead be to orient those feelings of resentment towards actually resolving what led to them in the first place.
Not just reflection but practice besides.
It took me a long time to realize that I’m not forgiving the people I forgive because they deserve it. I’m forgiving them because I need the problem to be over.
“Comfort was the answer to all life’s problems. It didn’t solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”
- Welcome to nightvale
Fuck I can hear the intro music
I haven’t heard it for a very long time. I should get back to it for the nostalgia.
“No matter where you go, there you are”
– Dr. Buckaroo BanzaiThe world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
“Not everything’s a lesson Ryan. Sometimes you just fail.”
- Dwight Schrute :D
“I’m Batman.”
Some context, Batman says this frequently when explaining why a man dressed up as a Bat is there to a confused onlooker.
“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”
- also Batman (in the 1966 film Batman)
Thanks, that clears it up
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Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
- E.V. Debs
"You know, there’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don’t all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.”
~Silent Bob
Silent bob is written with almost all the best and quotable lines.
The rest of the quotable lines are Jay.
'i am the CLIT commander!"
I don’t want to believe, I want to know - Carl Sagan
We do not inherit the world from our ansestors, we borrow it from our children. -Antoine de Saint Exupéry
This is my favorite.
My second favorite from him: what makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
There are tons of quotes I like. Below are some of my favorites.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. - The Brothers Karamazov (book) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I don’t want to live someone else’s idea of how to live. Don’t ask me to do that. I don’t want to find out one day that I’m at the end of someone else’s life. - Out of Africa (movie) by Sydney Pollack
Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became. - Anonymous
I like the last one. Interesting to think about.
Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. -Jamie Anderson
Got a little dusty in here.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
- Unknown soldier
- Soldier who like the sound of his own voice
Dude doesn’t know proper radio protocol then.
Life is too short to please everybody.
