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By (user no longer on site) OP 51 weeks ago
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What are some quotes that changed you? Either in a good way or a bad way. Maybe you think of them all the time.
Some of my favourites:
‘Do you think Jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross and thought of home?’
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‘Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part’ |
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By (user no longer on site) 51 weeks ago
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We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.
It helps me make fewer rash judgements when something happens or I feel someone has wronged me if I don't have the full story. |
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By (user no longer on site) 51 weeks ago
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‘I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.’
‘You can Jail a revolutionary but you can’t jail a revolution’
‘Revolution is not a one time event’
‘Not every Black man ah yuh friend and not every white man ah yuh enemy’
‘Don’t trust no shadow after dark’
‘Those that don’t hear, will feel’
And a really long one from James Baldwin.
These are all ones that have stuck in my head.
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By (user no longer on site) 51 weeks ago
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Those that matter don’t mind
Those that mind, don’t matter.
People may not remember what you said or how you said it but they WILL remember how you made them feel - Maya Angelou
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 51 weeks ago
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"‘I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.’
‘You can Jail a revolutionary but you can’t jail a revolution’
‘Revolution is not a one time event’
‘Not every Black man ah yuh friend and not every white man ah yuh enemy’
‘Don’t trust no shadow after dark’
‘Those that don’t hear, will feel’
And a really long one from James Baldwin.
These are all ones that have stuck in my head.
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My favourite ever James Baldwin piece:
What are you doing all the time? And why do you say at are voil doing neid gack the teeble moonlight. nothing? You are evil, you know, and sometimes when you smiled at me I hated you. I wanted to strike you. I wanted to make you bleed. You smiled at me the way you smiled at everyone, you told me what you told everyone-and you tell nothing but lies. What are you always hiding? And do you think I did not know when you made love to me, you were making love to no one? No onel Or everyone- but not me, certainly. I am nothing to you, nothing, and you bring me fever but no delight.'
It’s changed my writing foreverrrr |
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The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open.
Two ears one mouth. Should be used in that proportion.
What the thinker thinks the prover proves.
Commitment, doing the thing you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said in has left you.
Definition of a rut, a coffin with ends kicked out.
You can't hear anything when your mouth's open.
We're all someones ex for a reason.
You can't fart against thunder.
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By (user no longer on site) 51 weeks ago
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. |
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By *mf123Man 51 weeks ago
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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
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Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.
Edmund Lee |
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"if you spend your life looking in the rear view mirror you will only ever see the consequences of the accidents you caused"
Basically if shit happened to you a long time ago and all you focus on is that, then you're not looking forward to the life you can live, just looking back on the life you had that you can't change. |
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Can’t think of any quotes/sound bites that have changed me, it’s usually whole books / autobiographies but a couple of speeches & a poem had quite a big impact
Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt
Alienation (rat race) - Jimmy Reid
Son of Mine - Oodgeroo Noonuccal |
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At 10 I read in my dad's book by Omar Khayyam: "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
I asked dad what it meant. He said if you do something wrong, that you later regret, you cannot undo it and it will not be forgotten, however sorry you are. I tried to bear that in mind as I moved through life. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 51 weeks ago
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"At 10 I read in my dad's book by Omar Khayyam: "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
I asked dad what it meant. He said if you do something wrong, that you later regret, you cannot undo it and it will not be forgotten, however sorry you are. I tried to bear that in mind as I moved through life."
Ahhhh, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. My dad's favourite. I've got a copy. His philosophy is effectively "eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die". I put the "moving finger writes" quote on his funeral service leaflet. It's an admonition against the futility of holding regrets and dwelling on things that can't be changed. I find Khayyam has a sort of optimistic fatalism.  |
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By *ldgeezermeMan 51 weeks ago
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"What are some quotes that changed you? Either in a good way or a bad way. Maybe you think of them all the time.
Some of my favourites:
‘Do you think Jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross and thought of home?’
And
‘Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part’"
Strictly speaking he was the step son of a carpenter
Unless Mrs Almighty had her bloke putting up shelves from Judea Ikea on the weekend |
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By (user no longer on site) 51 weeks ago
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"What are some quotes that changed you? Either in a good way or a bad way. Maybe you think of them all the time. "
May I share one I created?
"Awareness and perception precedes understanding. Understanding precedes knowing. Knowing precedes wisdom. Wisdom precedes peace." |
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