"You" Quotes

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"Bart! God has prescribed one and only one way to consistent, moment-by-moment victory. And that way is the way of faith and obedience, never the way of emotions. It is applying the biblical steps in proper order...truth, faith, behavior, and feelings. If feelings are reluctant to line up, poop on them. You can walk in victory without their lining up for as long as God wills. But you CAN make it work with only the first three."

 

[Saricharity]

“Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them–that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it?”

“It has always seemed to me, ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.”

quotes taken from one of my favourite books, Anne of Green Gables

 

[Go Braves]

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." Babe Ruth

 

[Somber]

 

[Ada Lovelace]

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
- Søren Kierkegaard

 

[High Fidelity]

"You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretences of your civilisation which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That’s the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilised world." - Octave Mirbeau

"The line between pessimism and realism is often blurry to the optimist." - Me

 

[Ada Lovelace]

“Many a night that summer she left Dr. Archie's office with a desire to run and run about those quiet streets until she wore out her shoes, or wore out the streets themselves; when her chest ached and it seemed as if her heart were spreading all over the desert. When she went home, it was not to go to sleep. She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window -- or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that it was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

 

[FredVB]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana

And it applies as well to say "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it".

 

[blackribbon]

I was born outside the box and just live close enough to the edges that hopefully nobody notices. Life is fuller without the box though.

 

[Strider1002]

“I feel comfortable inside the box.”
- Me

 

[kittysbecute]

“Bee yourself.” - Genie from Aladdin.

 

[Travelers.Soul]

Don't look at your problems or trials and compare them to your strength, look at your problems and compare them to your God and his strength and power.

 

[FredVB]

He who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

 

[mojoboy31]

"Recte Age Nil Time"
Latin for: Do Right Fear Nothing.

And then nextly:

"But promises are just breaks in the rain.
The sun comes out for a moment.
Just long enough to make you hope.
Then it always starts raining again."

That's from a Batman comic book, of all places. I thought it was all profound when I first read it. a year later, I tried to find it cause I couldn't remember it. But no one had posted it online anywhere. I wanted to show it to my friends, so I posted a thread in the goldreads topic, asking anyone who owned the book to post it for me. Fast forward another year or so, the day after my ex dumped me, I woke up to a notification on my phone, someone had private messaged my goodreads account to give me that quote. XD

 

[kittysbecute]

 

[Niels]

"With great power comes great electricity bill."
- Anon

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
-Abraham Lincoln

 

[FredVB]

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

 

[Sif]

My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.

• Moliere in The Misanthrope (1666)

 

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[Miss Spaulding]

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." -Oscar Wilde

"The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn." -Sophie Scholl