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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[–] Kotking@mastodon.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@zinklog "History loves repeat itself" With Covid , Wars and even daily life you see this so so many times. On big or little scales but this is a almost mantra to me " History is spiral it always comes back to point x" Sometimes it's scary because you know exactly what happened and what happening now can happen again...

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[–] florida_ted@friendica.myportal.social 2 points 2 years ago

@zinklog Do unto other as you would have them do unto you.

[–] corvax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

if you assume you make an ass of u and me

[–] Jake@blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

@zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml

"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."

James Baldwin

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

We all hurt, we all need, we all cry, we all bleed.

One of my favorite reminders that everyone has personal struggles.

[–] codenamekino@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow" - Horace

"Seize the day and throttle it." - Calvin and Hobbes

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Confidence is everything.

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

Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

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[–] IrrelevantBoB@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Solo sé que no sé nada" Sócrates

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[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

-- T H White

[–] UnperfectOne@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 2 points 2 years ago

"To infinity and beyond"

-- Buzz

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

A joke calender in the 80s told me that "Ich habe mein stammwappen verloren" means "I have lost my totem pole"

[–] Wayren@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"God thinks he's all that and a bag of chips." -David Bowie

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