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Money can't buy happiness; but at least you can live miserably in comfort

"If soulmates exist, they're not found, they're made"

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’"

~ Kurt Vonnegut

"No matter where you go, there you are"
– Dr. Buckaroo Banzai

Good is not the enemy of perfect.

"The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry."

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-Samuel Beckett

Cormac Mccarthy:

"Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere."

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew. - Lulu FFX

It's from the video game Final Fantasy X, but it's still such an amazing qoute

You fucked up. You trusted us.

From Animal House

“The only common factor in all of your failures, is you.”

-Meh, I don’t know

I have many but here is one I wanna tattoo.

"This is your life, and is ending one minute at the time"

Also:

"Do what you can't"

One must imagine sisyphus happy.

You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

"A day may come when the courage of men fails when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day.” An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight"

Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). Said on his deathbed, when asked by a priest if he forgave his enemies.

Not that I’m in favor if shooting people :) It’s just so deliciously unapologetic and I love the setting in which it is said.

“Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

― Euripides

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

both gramsci

Life is too short to please everybody.

Security is mostly an illusion; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

• Hellen Keller

I can't pick just one.

Now the world has gone to bed

Darkness won't engulf my head

I can see by infra-red

How I hate the night

-- Douglas Adams, hgttg, Page 444.

When you see yourself doing something badly, and no one's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

-- Randy Pausch, the last lecture

Just go YouTube The Last Lecture. It takes an hour but you will come away different.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." GRRM

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay

Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.

"...because if just one of those things gets down here, then all of this... bullshit, that you think is so important, well, you can kiss all that goodbye."

• Ellen Ripley

“The American public knows what it wants, and it deserves to get it… good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

“Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul and set you free from all your sins. Sometimes a woman is a heroin addiction - you are a junkie, you are my best friend. Let her go.” - The Bad Examples

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

"All I know is that I know nothing", Socrates

Took me decades to really understand what he meant.

The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

"Cause nothin' moves faster than the hands of time"