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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." -Gandhi

far from the eyes, far from the heart

Don't even know why

"be careful of what you wish for, as you may just get it"

Get in the zone, autozone!

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. - Marcus Aurelius

"Think for yourself and question authority." It's on a TOOL album.

I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."

I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."

From citizen Kane:

"It's easy to make a lot of money, if all you want is a lot of money"

Or something to that effect. Think about that line often

Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure. ... Failure leads to maturity; maturity leads to success.

• Steven Brust (from Jhereg)

Pick your battles.

“He has no friends” - Dad

“You judge yourself by your intentions, but judge others by their actions”

This has helped me with my procrastination and helping to understand co-workers and people in general. Life gets busy and we always mean do get to things, but it’s really on what we actually do and complete that is real.

Once is never, twice is always.

"Good things come to those who wait". It has been true so many times in my life.

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?

Basically at any given moment, any from a random assortment of Simpsons quotes. Right now it’s “but when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory?”

“If God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful.”

It is by doing whatever that one becomes whoever.

It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't.

„Old habits die hard“

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"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."

• Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away

So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

"Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back."

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it's supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future"

If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.