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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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[–] Grivs@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

“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.

[–] SigloPseudoMundo@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It is by doing whatever that one becomes whoever.

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[–] hamburglar26@wilbo.tech 5 points 2 years ago

Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Puzzlehead@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“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

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[–] LordOlgort@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

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

  • Steven Brust (from Jhereg)
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"

[–] WhatASave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Once is never, twice is always.

[–] wtvr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] swade2569@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] neilrodgers75@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] arkh2183@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

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?”

[–] OldManGenghis@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Hurtreynolds90@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Pick your battles.

[–] Gargantuanthud@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] CuriousBeagle@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] randoom@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.

[–] ZuriMuri@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

„Old habits die hard“

&

"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
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[–] AncillaryJustice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...

To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.

  • Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

  • Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.

  • Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  • Winston Churchill

猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

Even monkeys fall from trees.

  • Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

True victory is victory over one's self.

  • Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido
[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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