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"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.
A bit long, but charlie Chaplins speech in the dicktater. I mean dictator...
https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-
Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...
To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.
- Ryōkan, a Japanese poet
Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.
- Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire
Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.
- Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson
Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)
Even monkeys fall from trees.
- Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying
正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)
True victory is victory over one's self.
- Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido
From citizen Kane:
"It's easy to make a lot of money, if all you want is a lot of money"
Or something to that effect. Think about that line often
"you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass"
Been almost 30 years, what a dumb quote to come to mind so often. I never say it, haven't seen Die Hard 3 since the '90s, no idea why it's stuck so hard
If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.
For my whole life is a tall order. Probably "what goes around comes around".
"be careful of what you wish for, as you may just get it"
This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”
Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others
Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”
Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward
Keep moving forward
I think it would be this two personally.
Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. - Confucius
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V
"Friendly fire isn't!"
"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"
"HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!!" - Red, The Roadside Picnic
An impossible wish, yet one that burned itself into my heart the moment I read it, and a quote that has kept me walking.
"The only thing to abuse is moderation" - A song quoting Sénèque, but I never found the original sentence from Sénèque (apparently he was talking about Sex in it but I think it applies to anything in life)
See I was always partial to: "Moderation in everything, but don't over do it!"
The version I heard was "everything in moderation, including moderation."