"Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face." -Oscar Wilde
What are some of yours?
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"Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face." -Oscar Wilde
What are some of yours?
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost"
"you the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful!!, to make this life a wonderful adventure!"
Charlie Chaplin - the Great Dictator
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
― Neale Donald Walsch
“Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.”
― Brian L. Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping Into the Power of Love
"when you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky"- Buddha.
"Nothing is more important than your health. Except for your money." ~Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"People plan. Fate laughs" ~Jim Butcher
"The reward for work well done is more work" ~Jim Butcher
"Is the game controlling you, or are you controlling the game?"
-The Ninja, from Angry Video Game Nerd's "Ninja Gaiden" review.
"That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is- a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. . . A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane. You look down; you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff." - George Carlin
"There's just enough bullshit to hold things together in this country. Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation. . . All men are equal. Justice is blind. The press is free. Your vote counts. Business is honest. The good guys win. The police are on your side. God is watching you. Your standard of living will never decline, and everything is gonna be just fine. The official, national bullshit story." - George Carlin
Of course, I've always liked everything Carlin said since I first read one of his books, so here's a more recent quote I enjoyed from Jimquisition-
"Games are no longer games. They're territories, carved up and handed over to individual warlords: Gamestop, Amazon, Steam, and whatever proprietary digital service the publisher decided to pull out its own arse. They're all served long before the customer is." - Jim Sterling
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. Voltaire
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. William Butler Yeats
Don't believe everything you think. ?
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself. e.e. cummings
Wouldn't the sentence, 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
- Martin Gardner
"This I learned by doing" - Some guy on a youtube video
So many great quotes to choose from...
Here's one that might resonate with a lot of people on DV:
Admit it. You aren't like them. You're not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the "normal people" as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like "Have a nice day" and "Weather's awful today, eh?", you yearn inside to say forbidden things like "Tell me something that makes you cry" or "What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others...
- Timothy Leary (unsourced)
Heh, I just remembered this quote:
"There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure about the former." ~Albert Einstein
This one is funny because it's true.
"Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you."
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
"Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."
Really fuels my god complex.
Luckily or not I've never done any acid, but that's anyway one of my favorite quotes:
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” Bill Hicks
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about Rock n' Roll!" ~Shigeru Miyamoto
"Faith is irrelevant. One could have an infinite amount of faith and it would still be the equivalent of nothing" ~Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”
― Steve Maraboli
"More human than human" is our motto.
--Blade Runner
The four children on the moon.
Heh, heh... Thanks... You're nice. Umm... Can I ask... a question? Your friends... What kind of... people are they? I wonder... Do these people... think of you... as a friend? (Child wearing Odolwa's mask)
Heh, heh... Thanks... You're nice. Umm... Can I ask... a question? What makes you happy? I wonder...what makes you happy...does it make...others happy, too? (Child wearing Goht's mask)
Heh, heh... Thanks... You're nice. Umm... Can I ask... a question? The right thing...what is it? I wonder...if you do the right thing...does it really make...everybody...happy? (Child wearing Gyorg's mask)
Heh, heh... Thanks... You're nice. Umm... Can I ask... a question? Your true face... What kind of... face is it? I wonder... The face under the mask... Is that... your true face? (Child wearing Twinmold's mask)
--Majora's Mask
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
--Happy mask salesmen.
"Did you know humans frown on weight variances? If you want to upset a human, just tell them that their weight variance is above or below the norm." -GLaDOS
"The journey of a thousand miles begins when you buy the plane tickets" -I can't remember...
"Herryour Sandwich" -Random guy in a dream I had.
"Who would try to join the gaaa... Oh, poops on a stick!!" -Hudson from Halo 3 Life of Logan.
"I've seen these two cats meow... And it's gonna be a fancy feast tonight!" -Games Dean, VGHS
"Death is having a clearance, and you're on sale!" -I can't remember
"Keep your friends close and your enemies dead." -I can't remember
"Violence Is Golden" -My cousin
And of course, there is my signature...
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
"When I was a little boy, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised, the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me." - Emo Philips
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius(actually any of his quotes)
"The only rules that really matter these: What a person CAN do, and what a person CAN'T do" ~Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) /*This one is so true.*/
"Emotions can be a powerful tool. To deny their existence is illogical. But we must learn to control them" ~Tuvok's Mentor, Star Trek: Voyager
"Love is the most dangerous emotion of all. It can induce lots of other emotions--jealousy, hate, rage, shame, fear, grief, despair. We must learn to suppress them all. Otherwise, they will consume us" ~Tuvok's Mentor, Star Trek: Voyager
Now that I remember, Ashleigh Brilliant has some pretty hilarious quotes. He's actually where Despair Inc gets a lot of their slogans.
"Don't try to cheer me up--it is only my strong negative attitude that keeps me going" ~Ashleigh Brilliant
"I didn't ask to be born--but then, who did?" ~Ashleigh Brilliant
"Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence." ~Ashleigh Brilliant
^This one really cracked me up. I am SO going to say this to the next girl who hits on me.
“Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead, in the besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, with its architecture, its business, its politics, its men! ... I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafes with the suffocating and oppressive music, to the bars and variety entertainments, to World Exhibition, to the Corsos.” - Haller (protagonist) in Steppenwolf, Hesse
"When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine" -Hesse, Steppenwolf
"Better learn to listen first!" - Mozart in Steppenwolf, Hesse
"You have heard your sentence. So, you see, you will have to learn to listen to more of the radio music of life. It'll do you good." - Mozart in Steppenwolf, Hesse
The progression of learning to understand society and how to be a more open, whole, and intelligent individual as it takes place in Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf.
“A Mighty Pain To Love It Is, And 'Tis A Pain That Pain To Miss. But Of All Pains, The Greatest Pain. It Is To Love, But Love In Vain." Abraham Cowley
"The strongest steel is forged through the hottest fire" ~Chinese Proverb
"The reward for a thing well-done is to have done it" ~Emerson
"In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated value, particularly when applied to work" ~Emma Harte (A Woman of Substance)
"Go where your heart believes" ~Chris de Burgh
"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R Tolkien
“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."” - C.S. Lewis
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” - Brian Cox
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.” - Richard Feynman
I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive.
Spike Spiegel
"We come with nothing. That's we'll go" ~Chris de Burgh
“Humans live by their heart’s beat; the beat is a systematic repetition. In other words, rhythm. Indeed, whatever you're doing rhythm is the most important. When walking, when eating, when fighting, when making love, when talking… rhythm is essential. “ - Same as above
One of the reasons why I love the game, Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time and Albel Nox~
• Albel Nox: "There is no end to people's desires. If you want to control the masses, you have to throw away the carrot and use the stick!"
• Albel Nox: "Compassion? Seeing things from another's standpoint? You know nothing about the real world.
What if someone important to you were starving right before your eyes? Would you still be concerned about people you'd never even seen before? Are you saying you'd continue to lead a life of hardship just to help people you don't even know!?
Listen up, Fayt!
After all is said and done, we (humans) are creatures that are only able to think about ourselves and a very limited number of people around us."
Spoiler for THE MEANING OF LIFE:
Spoiler for 1984:
(in free translation, probably with mistakes):
"Enjoy your life in System by maximizing your wins and losses - but don't become addict. Get rid of anger at the way how the system works, at clear injustice, unfair advantages, brutality, callousness, lies. It's a world purposely designed as a predatory - by this it can be a great learning-machine." ~ R. Monroe.
I read this in an article today and it was very motivating for me because of the current events in my life.
"Breakups are hard, but you will move on and find someone who will make your world go round again. You can either dwell in the past or break free and zoom into your future. There are many fishes in the sea, but you have to pick the right one. If it’s meant to be, it will be. You don’t need to worry about that. Destiny has its ways and we just have to embrace the cards that it hands out to us."
- "If you kill a hundred men you will be called a great warrior, but if you save one life, you will be called a god." - Indian action movie " Bahubali "
- "Whens the last time you did something for the first time?"
- " Wow man, like, killing people is heavy." - A stoned kid being interviewed for television about school shootings
- "What if after you die you wake up holding a bong being surrounded by aliens and they ask you if it worked?"
- "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
- "I'm having trouble reaching sleep paralysis. Any tips?"
- "It was in the middle of winter that I finally discovered that there was within me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
- "And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was dark blue and yellow." - r/MinionHate
- "Prolonged indecisiveness that eventually leads to missed opportunities."
- "Events like that make me feel like my concept of reality is broken. A couple hundred miles away from the US, >200000 people died in a day. And it happened five years ago. And I barely remember it. Just given all the stuff we freak out about, it's so bizarre that this doesn't register. This event was like 60 9/11's. Or 120 Hurricane Katrinas. What the hell?"
- "Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot."
"Don't kill and don't be killed, OK?" - Undertale
The whole lyric to "Blue Sky Mine", a song by Midnight Oil
Related to the band "XTC":
"When we first started my driving energy was to have lots of beer in the dressing room and be very, very rich and famous. Um, we've had the beer in the dressing room..." - Andy Partridge
"Some see the world as a stone; concrete daubed in dull monotone; your heart is the big box of paints." ("Wrapped in Grey")
"For a heart without love is like a song with no words and a tune to which no-one is listening; so your heart must give love and you'll find that you'll shine, like the rain on the leaves you'll be glistening." ("Beating of Hearts")
“It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.”
― P.D. Ouspensky
“A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.”
― P.D. Ouspensky
"Heaven is for a moment's span.
And ever."
-Benét
Here's one of my favorite quotes...
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True racism is near nonexistent, prejudice is however prevalent in every facet of the US social apparatus, so then why are decent peoples, of both spectra, so quick to hide their genuine concerns when it comes to political manipulation of the media? Conditioning is the answer, assuming you're too stupid to understand the question. - John Dewey Scribbles
"For the pessimist, the satisfaction of being PROVED right is usually undermined by the sad reality of simply BEING right. Bummer" ~EL Kersten
"When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass." - Tibetan saying
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
I think therefore I am
As above, so below
Don't question the madness, go with the flow
The only constant is change
The silence is deafening
All the matrix quotes
" - The worst mistake you can make is to think that you are alive, when really you're asleep in life's waiting room." - The ukulele guy in Waking life
" The trick, is to combine your waking rational abilities, with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because if you can do that you can do anything." - The ukulele guy in Waking Life
"I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. And if given the chance, even the smallest drop can spread and consume the heart." ~Ansem the Wise (Kingdom Hearts II)
the wound is the place where the light enters you - rumi
no tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell - carl jung
“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.” ~ Paulo Coelho
I like most of Camus' quotes but I find this one sums everything up nicely.
"One must imagine Sysiphus happy." -Albert Camus
Just yesterday Mismagius and I where discussing another quote in the chat.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" -Albus Dumbledore
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." -Aristotle
"It can't rain all the time." - The Crow
Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 20: 'My dream is to die thinking Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.'
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden
"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?" - Vaas
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
from The Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
"If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors." - Frank Sinatra
"And so it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut in his book Slaughterhouse Five (book about WWII), used as a refrain in the book when instances of death or dying occur.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with - Jim Rohn
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
From the book Just in case by Meg Rosoff
"Whatever the reason, an eye for an eye" ~L (Death Note)
Put all your eggs in one basket and-WATCH THAT BASKET (mark twain puddn head wilson)
The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret. (Umberto Eco)
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." - Franz Kafka
"You remember when i said how i was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are always talking about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin, and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak."
Bernie LaPlante, Hero
"Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become, flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover, not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness." - Anthony DeMello
"If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death." - Anthony DeMello
"Agreement alone does not constitute truth."
I read this in a book nearly seven years back. I don't remember the title or the author. It was a friend's book, and I was just flipping through, when I happened to read this sentence out of sheer chance. I've tried to look this up, but to no avail!
"To each their own and in their own time." -Jane Roberts, as Seth. From the Seth Books.
"People can only meet you as far as they have come." -Unknown
^Nice one. I really love this one by Teal Swan.
"Stop trying to feel better, instead, get better at feeling."
Lots of nice quotes here. :)
Because of how my memory works, I only have a few favourite quotes that I can bring up spontaneously and which are worthy of deep thought, most quotes I remember well are simply on the "amusing" or "funny" categories; however, here's something I liked very much from a work I read only recently:
"The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him/herself alive and open to hear what being may speak. (...) It is a waiting for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect these periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation." - Slight paraphrase from The Courage to Create, Rollo May
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." -Walsh
"If we could see without the distorting influence of ego, everything would appear as it is, perfect." - William Blake
"The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate. Second, including the excluded. Third, admitting that you are wrong." - Unkown
"You possess everything you need right now to be happy and fulfilled. Happiness naturally awakens in you through a simple process of awareness. You see life differently because you are different. You see things you have never seen before. Beautiful things. You're much more energetic, much more alive. When you finally awake, you don't try to make good things happen; they just happen. You understand suddenly that everything that happens to you is good, and that all is well, even at times when things are a mess." - Anthony De Mello
"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave." - Rainer Maria Rilke
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
-Litany Against Fear
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened, but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher." - Mortimer Adler
"No one is looking for truth, that's just talk. Truth doesn't hide from us, we hide from truth. If you have to look for truth, you won't find it because it's always right where you never look. It's like a trick you play on yourself, looking all over for something you already have." - Marichelle
"If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into a flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly." - Anthony DeMello
"Don't miss the forest for the trees." -Unknown.