"quotes" to live by.

[Contritus]

"Self preservation is a mediocre compulsion"

"Sanity involves learning to enjoy conflict, and giving up on all myths of harmony, consistency and redemption." / "Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them."

"Hypersensitive political correctness is morally unserious"

"Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!"

"What we call tolerance is merely a fear of being proven wrong." / "It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other."

"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void."

"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one." / "It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"If we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue, more than books of political science, or of private economy. Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual, and moral laws, and often violation on
violation to breed such compound misery. A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes him eat grass; war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering. Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation. Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self-collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour."

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"Do unto others as you would have them do to you"

Perfect for a masochist.

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"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."

-Dawn of War: Librarian

[Duncanîdaho]

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Dune by Frank Herbert

"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here — the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos." - Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

"Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain capable of saying: "There's no real mystery about this at the moment. This is what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we'll correct that when we come to it." The mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can identify as our universe is merely a part of larger phenomena. But the expert looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: "Now what is this thing doing?" - Children of Dune by Frank Herbert(full version of my sig)

Are some of my personal favorites. I enjoyed quite a few of the quotes in here.

[Deleted]

So many profound answers, gee. I'm going with: "I'm the quiet type. Unless there's leather and I'm being recorded", and "Once you get to know me, I'm really not that nice" – Snejana Onopka. She's my role model.

[xxf2dxx]

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." - Samuel L. Jackson

Thanks, that made my day.

[Somebodyelse]

"A witty saying proves nothing"
- voltaire

"Voltaire can suck my balls"-Paul Finch ! :P

[Beenie]

"Don't let the things you hold onto ever outnumber the things you let go / Don't let the things your remember ever outnumber the things you live for." -Josh Ritter

I find myself becoming more sentimental and emotional as I get older. I like it.

[Neetz]

I have a few quotes that I like:

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things,

to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
- Mary Oliver


"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them."
- Dion Boucicault


"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve


"I looked and looked, but I didn't see God."
- Yuri Gagarin

[Yunru]

The human brain. It is a Pandora's box of electrical charges which we only begin to understand. Now, most brains are receivers, but some are advanced sending and receiving charges. (yuri ra2)

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. (Half-Life 2)

War. War never changes. (Fallout 3)

[sugarlily]

Tolerated behavior doesn't change.
We teach people how to treat us.
We get what we settle for.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -Mahatma Gandhi

Man created the nuclear bomb, but no mouse would ever build a mouse trap.

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.”
-John Lennon

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“You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.” - Homer Simpson

[Anakso]

" the thing about quotes on the Internet is that you can't confirm there validity"
- Abraham Lincoln

And having said that, most Einstein quotes ate things he never actually said so not sure if this is real or not but I like it.

"There are two things that are infinite. The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former"

There's more that ill post later but don't recall them exactly and I'm currently not at home so no time to look them up

[Video Games]

"You're a wizard harry" - gandalf, star wars
"ur a faget" - XxN0_sc0Pe_420_MLGp0nyxX
"Fuck you" - Donte teh demun slur

[KayossZero]

To start with, three of my favorite Robert A. Heinlein quotes.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

[mrbadxampl]

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Nietzsche

[Whidbey]

“Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss

[Malkhor]

"You're a wizard harry" - gandalf, star wars
"ur a faget" - XxN0_sc0Pe_420_MLGp0nyxX
"Fuck you" - Donte teh demun slur

So inspirational LIEK IF U CRY EVERYTIEM


OT:

not really to live by but I like it, because it's kind of bad ass and very true.

Revenge is a poison meant for others that we end up swallowing ourselves.
Vengeance is a dark light that blinds all who seek it.
The untroubled soul knows there is no justice in revenge.
The untroubled soul knows that to seek vengeance is to seek destruction.

[nachoo]

"Those who tend to follow the crowd, usually never go further than the crowd. Those who walk alone tend to find themselfs no one has ever been before" Albert Einstein

[AlmightyGerkin]

"I'm not on this world to live up to your expectations and your not in this world to live up to my expectations" - Bruce Lee