A quote that you live by
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"Any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all."
Take A Minute by K'naan
I don't really live by this next one but I like it...
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ."
Mohandas Gandhi
One more...
"Carpe diem"
seize the day in latin
Take A Minute by K'naan
I don't really live by this next one but I like it...
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ."
Mohandas Gandhi
One more...
"Carpe diem"
seize the day in latin
"A wise speaks because he has something to say; a fool speaks because he has to say something"
And
"Friends are won by many acts and lost by only one"
The second one is my favorite and is also very true.
And
"Friends are won by many acts and lost by only one"
The second one is my favorite and is also very true.
I'm not sure if I live by any quotes, but there are a few that have impacted me in one way or another.
For example, while I joined the Army for many reasons, and any of a hundred movies and commericals left their mark, the phrase "Be all you can be in the Army" probably did more to make me raise my hand than the rest. At the heart of it all, it wasn't boredom or patriotism or a coin toss that really made me do it, I wanted to know if I COULD do it.
In the end, I did learn that I was capable of doing it. I learned that almost every limit I had ever taken note of was simply mental. I learned that even when three of your four limbs are pinned in a fight, you still have not lost. I learned that no matter how exhausted I was, no matter how miserable, so long as I was still breathing I could keep moving forward. This was a trivial lesson in retrospect and it probably is obvious to anybody who has played any sport seriously.
The most important lesson I learned was that no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you struggle, in the end victory or defeat often lies in matters outside of your control. It was at this moment, when everything I had ever believed in turned out to, at best, be a warped version of reality, that I read the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and came across a quote that somehow made sense of it all: "A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
For example, while I joined the Army for many reasons, and any of a hundred movies and commericals left their mark, the phrase "Be all you can be in the Army" probably did more to make me raise my hand than the rest. At the heart of it all, it wasn't boredom or patriotism or a coin toss that really made me do it, I wanted to know if I COULD do it.
In the end, I did learn that I was capable of doing it. I learned that almost every limit I had ever taken note of was simply mental. I learned that even when three of your four limbs are pinned in a fight, you still have not lost. I learned that no matter how exhausted I was, no matter how miserable, so long as I was still breathing I could keep moving forward. This was a trivial lesson in retrospect and it probably is obvious to anybody who has played any sport seriously.
The most important lesson I learned was that no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you struggle, in the end victory or defeat often lies in matters outside of your control. It was at this moment, when everything I had ever believed in turned out to, at best, be a warped version of reality, that I read the book Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and came across a quote that somehow made sense of it all: "A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
No idea if this has been posted, but:
"To lose faith and love is bearable. To lose hope is the end of everything."
Tuomas Holopainen
and
"Don?t argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
unknown
"To lose faith and love is bearable. To lose hope is the end of everything."
Tuomas Holopainen
and
"Don?t argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience."
unknown
"Be Firm But Fair." - My Father
"Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, water can take any form. If you pour it into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, or creep, or crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, water can take any form. If you pour it into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow, or creep, or crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"This shit's chess, it ain't checkers"
to me that says think long term and dont be naive
thats a very crappy way to word what that means but im not to good with words
another fav is socrates
"I am the wisest man alive because i know that I know nothing," this one is probably my fav
because it truly tells how insignificant we are in perspective to the universe or at least thats what it means to me
to me that says think long term and dont be naive
thats a very crappy way to word what that means but im not to good with words
another fav is socrates
"I am the wisest man alive because i know that I know nothing," this one is probably my fav
because it truly tells how insignificant we are in perspective to the universe or at least thats what it means to me
