Motivational Quotes and words live by

[U4ea]

Because I love quotes and is time to be motivational, I bring you a collection of quotes to live by!

 

Feel free to add your own!

[U4ea]

[Neeto]

My favorite has always been: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" by wayne gretzky. This has always encouraged me to be ambitious and not feel bad if I ever fail in something I attempt. =)

[U4ea]

[Ryrin]

"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." 

[U4ea]

that's awesome. I love that beautiful idea! Not only reusing something that's broken, but mending it and highlighting the history. *smiles* 

 

[Ryrin]

[Zhon]

"If at first you don't succeed, learn from what went wrong and THEN try again."

[Wren of the Brown]

I don't have the stomach for feel-good motivational quips.  I would like to call them platitudes but they actually serve a purpose in transmitting life advice.

 

- Sometimes you get shitty service because you're a shitty person.

- The failure mode of clever is asshole.

- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

- TANSTAAFL

- And above all else, don't be a dick.

 

And two passages from Havamal on drinking and keeping yourself in check.

 

11.

A better burden can no man bear

on the way than his mother wit:

and no worse provision can he carry with him

than too deep a draught of ale.

 

12.

Less good than they say for the sons of men

is the drinking oft of ale:

for the more they drink, the less can they think

and keep a watch o'er their wits.

 

13.

A bird of Unmindfulness flutters o'er ale feasts,

wiling away men's wits:

with the feathers of that fowl I was fettered once

in the garths of Gunnlos below.

 

14.

Drunk was I then, I was over drunk

in that crafty Jötun's court.

But best is an ale feast when man is able

to call back his wits at once.

 

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22.
The miserable man and evil minded
makes of all things mockery,
and knows not that which he best should know,
that he is not free from faults.

 

23.
The unwise man is awake all night,
and ponders everything over;
when morning comes he is weary in mind,
and all is a burden as ever.

 

24.
The unwise man weens all who smile
and flatter him are his friends,
nor notes how oft they speak him ill
when he sits in the circle of the wise.

 

25.
The unwise man weens all who smile
and flatter him are his friends;
but when he shall come into court he shall find
there are few to defend his cause.

 

26.
The unwise man thinks all to know,
while he sits in a sheltered nook;
but he knows not one thing, what he shall answer,
if men shall put him to proof.

 

27.
For the unwise man 'tis best to be mute
when he come amid the crowd,
for none is aware of his lack of wit
if he wastes not too many words;
for he who lacks wit shall never learn
though his words flow ne'er so fast.

 

28.
Wise he is deemed who can question well,
and also answer back:
the sons of men can no secret make
of the tidings told in their midst.

 

29.
Too many unstable words are spoken
by him who ne'er holds his peace;
the hasty tongue sings its own mishap
if it be not bridled in.

[WildTaltos]

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage” 

 

"I hate who steals my solitude, without really offering me in exchange company."

 

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

 

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

 

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."

 

all by nietzsche

[Ryrin]

Those are great, Taltos!

 

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means."

[Ryrin]

"Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth."

[WildTaltos]

“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” 

 

-richard adams, watership down

[Ryrin]

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~William Shakespeare

[Ryrin]

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.  

[Ryrin]

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

[Ryrin]

"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do."

[Ryrin]

“Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different. 
Surrender.” 

[U4ea]

 

Haha

[Ryrin]

"May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door."
 

[U4ea]

[Ryrin]

The years teach much which the days never knew. 

[U4ea]

[Ryrin]

"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all."

[U4ea]