“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.” —Anomander Rake
From Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen.
“Love is just a word” haha just kidding, but it’s the first one that came to mind. I don’t think I actually have a fav
I love too many to have one favorite but I might translate something decent from french : “Absence is to love, what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the smaller and kindle the bigger.” – Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (or I think so)
I really like that one, thanks for sharing.
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
Change your perspective… and the reality changes!
That’s what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven’t really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
I’m a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Based pooh
If you fall asleep with an itchy butt you’ll wake up with a smelly finger.
Confucius was wise.
Don’t do what you think you have to do… only do what you absolutely must do
David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
/* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”
Oi oi oi. Me gotta hurt in here. Me smell a ting is near. Gonna bosh, and gonna nosh, and then the ting will disappear.
— Uthden Troll
Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Anarchist”
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably
This too shall pass.
No matter how good or bad your life is, there will ways be change.
That works both ways though. Even the fable where the quote originated had that as a takeaway.
This. Temporariness is temporary. Soon everything will be permanent.
I mean the “this too shall pass” part. When people say the quote, usually it’s the kind of person who sees the negative treated differently than they treat the positive.
It won’t be that way forever though
I’m paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of
‘Something that will make me sad when I am happy and happy when I am sad’
The story goes, or the way that I was told, there was a king that always felt too high and then he felt too low. And so he called all his wise men to the hall, and he begged them for a gift to end the rises and the falls. But here’s the thing—they came back with a ring. It was simple, and was plainly unbefitting of a king, and engraved in black—well it had no front or back, but there were words around the band that said “just know this too shall pass.”
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
From Frank Herbert’s Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Though there are questions as to its veracity, “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”. As an artist, this is the reason I’ll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.