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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

-- T H White

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”

  • Elliot
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

“Nothing changes if I don’t change”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

do unto others as you would have them do unto you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's only two things that matter in life: who you choose as your friends and where you stick your pecker.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

As one door closes, another opens on the shit-chute to hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A german saying: "Besser Vorsicht als Nachsicht." It means that you should better be cautious or prepared beforehand than having to clean your mess up after it went wrong. Good preparations help you a lot in life.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.

In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.

It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.

I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

"if you poo you also pee, but if you pee you don't always poo"

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