For me, a few come to mind:
- “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”
It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.
- “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”
It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.
There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.
The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.
There’s a guy on Youtube by the name of Chris Boden. Slightly controversial figure but he seems to mean well. A video of his that seemed to be venting/reconciling himself included the phrase
“So you wake up one morning in your impact crater and you start. Again.”
the ironic thing about common sense is that it is not that common.
Sometimes life’s a bitch and you keep on living.
Actually this one and I just saw it on Lemmy too. As a life long Trek fan I have this quote in my head quite often.
“The only person who won’t fire you is you.”
Maya Angelou: “Do your best until you know better, then do better”
Your dog might not be your entire life, but you are the entire life of your dog
That is exactly the same for your kids, it is not until their world expands a bit when they are 3-5YO; before that you are literally everything to them.
Thats a good one, also along the lines “In our dogs eyes we are the immortal elves.”
Yeah, that’s a good one too.
Every time I think about how important we are to them and how loyal they are, I end up thinking about the “Jurrasic Bark” episode in Futurama 😭
Lol F you, I’m not clicking on that 😢
“There’s no such thing as retard/idiot proof, only retard/idiot resistant.”
'A business should never buy idiot proof systems they should just stop hiring idiots"
Reminds me of bash.org RIP https://bash-org-archive.com/?top
- “Where ever you go, there you are”
- “We have just enough fuel to make it to the crash site”
- “Ruh-Rouh”
- “Deny, Deny, Deny - Until you believe!”
- “A Rule without Enforcement is just wishful thinking”
- “When life gives you lemons- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
- “Ignoring a alert is the same as normalizing alerts, if it’s important, don’t ignore it, if it’s not important don’t alert for it”
- “Follow the money” - Gripping Hand I think
- “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” - Knuth maybe
- “Once you know something is possible, doing it becomes a exercise in persistence.”
- “Science isn’t what other people say, its what YOU can observe”
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The whole poem by Dylan Thomas is fantastic but that line in particular often pops into my head during difficult times, like these.
This is my favorite reading of it. Gives me goosebumps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWzPhZWYeI
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final.”
– Rainer Maria RilkeThis was used at the end of the movie Jojo Rabbit (one of my favorite movies of all time). I often remember this line when I feel like everything is going wrong, and it helps me hold on to hope.
“Silence deafens everything.” At first it seems counterintuitive, but being silent can “deafen” those around you (or society) to an issue or problem.
And my friends dad commented on his wanderlust need : “It doesn’t matter where you travel to, you will never get away from yourself”
"How active you are in middle-age determines how active you will be able to be in old age. And that applies to any given decade of one’s life.
Meanwhile, on Lemmy, we got people whining about sore backs and knees once they turn 30.
Work with elderly. Use it or lose it.
Amount of people who struggle to walk because they got in a wheelchair at some point is fucking high
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
