What sort of saying or quote do you live by?

Post Reply New Topic

Here are my favourites:

"It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again." - Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness.

"When luck's not with you it's against you." - The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness.

"The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd." - Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz.

"And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? ...and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.” - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon. (Amazing book with an Aspie protagonist, by the way.) (And I omitted a spoiler. Hence the ellipses.)

"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are." - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

"Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors.

Books are not like people. Books are safe." - Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine. (Another Aspie protagonist.)

"I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it." - Mockingbird.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein.


...And here I will stop before I make the thread explode.

I've got a few... (And yes, I'm an existentialist)

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Who's more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?" -- Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi, Star Wars

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are." --Søren Kierkegaard

"All living creatures have the power to be brought back to life and the will to go on living. Anywhere can be paradise, as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you always have the chance to be happy." -- Yui Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." -- Rush

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. " -- Søren Kierkegaard

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. " Friedrich Nietzsche

we don't know and we weren't meant to know so keep moving.

"Ding dong dang - Attention Platform 2, This train is now due to depart, Please stand clear" - Taylor Owynns (Voice of CityRail Sydney)

Some of the truest words ever spoken:
"I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
A vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours" -Casting Crowns

And from right here on WP:
"A man who does not learn is ignorant. A man who learns but does not think gives a false impression of intelligence. A man who both learns and thinks is a genius." -SammichEater

"Live today to it's fullest because you just can't be sure about tomorrow."

This is a quote that has developed over time and, I suppose, accumulated experiences. It seems to be the undercurrent to not only my life, but every one elses in my home.

What goes around come around and Treat others the way you'd like to be treated

"There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance."-plato

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

Genius is finite, stupidity is not.

"Do one thing every day that scares you"
i cant remember were i herd this one lol

Lots of good ones in here. Mine's better, though:

Why do today what your mom can do tomorrow?

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon Trotsky

i have turned into an optimist.

To think is to live. --Cicero