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What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday

Sun Ken Rock manga

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!!" - Red, The Roadside Picnic

An impossible wish, yet one that burned itself into my heart the moment I read it, and a quote that has kept me walking.

[–] BigTechMustBurn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

“Ignorance is bliss.”

[–] meatbag2010@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Life, don't talk to me about life...

[–] jonkenator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

"I don't knoooow, Margo"

In response to the classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation line: "And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?"

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point. It's just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.

[–] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie's hacky sack falls in the gutter.

-Patton Oswalt

[–] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We really are just the universe experiencing itself subjectively.

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[–] Planescape@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

“Nothing changes if I don’t change”.

[–] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 3 points 1 year ago

I only concern myself with 'how'. 'Why' is a question for philosophers and cowards, of which I am neither.

[–] Sabakodgo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“There isn't any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover

[–] jagged@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

No one is ever on their deathbed wishing they had worked more.

(And quotes of that ilk). It’s genuinely something that informs the structure of every day for me.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

-- T H White

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