If indecisive, choose one of your top favorites. And by the holy powers bestowed unto me through the machinations of this platform, I grant thee to even post more than one, too!
“Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut.”
– Canopyflyer’s Mother circa 1982
“Work smarter, not harder.” - Scrooge McDuck
Big fan of
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth”
- Garry Kasparov (2015)
That is to say, don’t let them shut you up.
There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.
I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)
“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people… you can do whatever you want.”
But i swear there was one that finished “When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action”
Love these unveiling of manipulation tactics. Especially in a time where the narrative is usually focused on the face-value of disinformation/misinformation, or straight up lying when discovered.
Idk why but your last line made me think of that line from the offspring song, “when the truth walks away everybody stays because the truth about the world is that crime does pay”
“Give me the strength to change the things I can change. And the wisdom to recognize them.”
“Discussing anything with an IT nerd; you will come to realize its like wrestling with pigs in the mud. They like it.”
Never pass up the opportunity to pee.
And
If a restaurant serves breakfast all day, that’s what you should order.
–My dad
Also,
Dont cheap out on anything that keeps you off the ground. (Tires, shoes, mattress etc)
Your dad is my spirit animal.
Friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.
I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
-Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
We evolve, beyond the person that we were a minute before. Little by little, we advance with each turn. That’s how a drill works!
Simon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
- Jean-Luc Picard. In Star trek: The Next Generation s2e21
Excellent. I’m also partial to this bit in the Drumhead:
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
“This too shall pass”
Attar records the fable of a powerful king who asks assembled wise men to create a ring that will make him happy when he is sad. After deliberation the sages hand him a simple ring with the Persian words “This too shall pass” etched on it, which has the desired effect.
“This too shall pass”
I need to etch that into my toilet seat.
“We don’t care what music you kids love, so long as you have music to love.” From the Hopeless Savages comic
The one that’s keeping me going nowadays is Samwise from The Movie:
Sam: It’s all wrong By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln (or honestly a like a dozen different other sources…this one has many different variants).
“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough”
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
I’m going to butcher it, but it’s something like: The more you learn the more you realize how little you know.
“You can make anything idiot proof, the world will just make a bigger idiot”
