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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
So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.
Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.
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-
"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.
„Old habits die hard“
&
"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."
- Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away
For my whole life is a tall order. Probably "what goes around comes around".
"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
"Better say sorry than ask for permission"
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"
"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!"
Look after your equipment and your equipment will look after you.
-and-
There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
Life, don't talk to me about life...
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.
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.
“There isn't any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover