“Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry.. and I’ll give you something to cry about you little bastard.” -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype
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"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.
if you assume you make an ass of u and me
"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."
James Baldwin
We all hurt, we all need, we all cry, we all bleed.
One of my favorite reminders that everyone has personal struggles.
Confidence is everything.
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."
Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
-- T H White
Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
"To infinity and beyond"
-- Buzz
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.
Don't be a dick
-Ismo Leikola, stand-up comedian
Two plus two equals five for large values of two