"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.
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I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."
I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."
Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point. It's just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.
In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday
- Sun Ken Rock manga
"I don't knoooow, Margo"
In response to the classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation line: "And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?"
"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."
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"If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't fuck with them." A quote from my TI in basic from 85'.
βIgnorance is bliss.β
"Friendly fire isn't!"
I only concern myself with 'how'. 'Why' is a question for philosophers and cowards, of which I am neither.
Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie's hacky sack falls in the gutter.
-Patton Oswalt
Keep moving forward
if you assume you make an ass of u and me
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.
"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."
- Marius, Diablo 2