Words to live by

I've a rather inspiring quote.

"Stuff happens. What the hell."

"Things fuck up sometimes..."

Something that I've been trying to live by is, "Just do it!"

There are moments when I can't make myself though.

"Do not submit to the pain"

Not that life = pain. Just something that can be inspiring in times thereof.

My own little motto of sorts is
"Dont think, Just do it."


When I actually follow it things tend to go well lol

Originally Posted by Infected

My own little motto of sorts is
"Dont think, Just do it."


When I actually follow it things tend to go well lol

lol "never think about the consequences of your actions" yea that's funny.

Personally, I go with "life is a journey, not a destination." It reminds me that life is a learning experience, and you should strive to take everything you can from both positive and negative experiences.

Honestly, I've always loved this quote:

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”


This is definitely my favourite quote too.

What my father said.

"When you wake up in the morning you have two choices: to be optimistic this day or be pessimistic". Similar to "Carpe Diem".

I think Tupac said it best when he said:
"Poor out a little liqa fo all my niccuhz dat passed"

I'm kidding. Only quoted that because someone laughably told me that was one of there favorite quotes.

ANYWAYS, I really enjoy this quote:
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo

Something I had seen in an art history book I was browsing through, and It's one that comes to mind whenever I'm working on any of my art projects and such.

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."

and

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Both Carl Sagan quotes.

"Don't be such a stuck-up prick. Remember, I can still kick yo' ass."

Those were my Mum's parting words at the airport this summer. I've remembered them frequently since then, and they've stopped me from being a stuck-up prick on several occasions.

"forgive and forget", really helps me avoid a lot of troublesome things in life.

"To know yourself is the greatest tool you'll ever own." That couldn't be more true. If you really know who you are, you can do practically anything. You can improve your strengths, strengthen your weaknesses, and become every bit the person you want to be and avoid being the person you don't want to be. You don't have to let anything or anyone mold you into their ideal person.

I find that a lot nowadays -- people being what other people want them to be. So few of the people I meet are aware of who they are because they're acting out so much for other people. It seems that way to me, at least.

Another quote I personally live by is something I came up with. It was during a conversation/debate with a friend of mine who's kinda religious, not to the point of God-fearing but close. He asked me what I believe in and I responded:

"I place my faith in the people and things I surround myself with daily."

Of course, my faith gets shattered pretty easily these days, but still. Better the tangible than the intangible. It makes things much brighter though when my faith is correct, and people show a politeness, a courtesy they might not have otherwise. I yet hold out hope!

Originally Posted by SouthJag

"To know yourself is the greatest tool you'll ever own."

I perfer the biblical "he who conquers himself is greater than he who conquers (seven) city/cities."

Also a good one.

"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."

- Robert E Howard, "Queen of the Black Coast" (1934)

Originally Posted by Mo0

I've got one that was in my email signature for YEARS that I came up with myself... I just recently replaced it.

"I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant."

I have to get that on a t-shirt

Anyways, I like the "To err is human; to forgive is divine" just because you can't always stress out with people's mistakes.

Interesting thread. I love reading insightful quotes.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a quote said by somebody else, but I go by a motto, such as "Strive to be a role model and an inspiration to anyone you make contact with on a daily basis. They are always observing." I made that quote up, but that's the jest of how I interact with other people daily.

"People who keep 'words to live by' books, or scrapbooks full of quotations, are idiots who want to seem clever without having to deal with context. They are the type of people who give a decent toast at a wedding, but you'd never want to hold a full conversation with them. Simply put, they'd rather you thought they understood the material than go through the trouble of actually learning it."

"Nothing important can be boiled down into a portable quote book."

"No one should ever have any object placed inside their asshole that's larger than a fist and less loving than a dildo"

My favorite ever.

"There's always something to take the joy out of life."