I have so many quotes I like but here's a sample. Some C.S. Lewis gems.

“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.”

• CS Lewis - Mere Christianity

“Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”

• C.S. Lewis “Reflections on the Psalms”

Some others

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right."

• Henry Ford

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete

~ Bucky Fuller

"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children."

Malcom X

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

~ Oscar Wilde

Those that need leaders are not qualified to choose them

~ Michael Malice

Conservatism is progressivism going the speed limit.

~ Michael Malice

Democracy is people that run businesses well being forced to run businesses poorly by people can't run businesses at all.

~ Michael Malice

Nice selections. One of my favourite quotes is:

"'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

I sense that you like words. You asked for great movie lines the other day.

Hands down, this quote. Reading it instantly made me feel better about being a parent haha

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf

"I'm closer to Lebron than you are to me"

-- Brian Scalabrine aka the white mamba

Get busy living or get busy dying

No risk it, no biscuit.

when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

OK, I'll do one more, just for sports.

“Don't waste your time with people whose ideas you immediately know to be stupid.”
-Charlie Munger
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/what-warren-buffett-gets-right-about-bitcoin

"The map is not the territory"
Alfred Korzybski

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

He who conquered himself is the mightiest warrior.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can …

“In the end, all things return to dust, and the means by which we travel the road make little difference. It is the road itself, and the will to travel it, that matters.”

All Tomorrows - C. M. Kosemen

I sometimes sign off my emails with this (mainly to people I'm actually friendly with).

"If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
-Genghis Khan

“I don’t want to save the world, I just want to help the neighborhood” - Rick Danko

• Nobody cares what you do for a living.
• Tragedy is that the people we like don't always like us back; Romeo and Julia are the exception, not the rule. (Veronica -- some YT/blog lady)
• Success is about showing up with intention and quality (Lyn Alden)
• Your true wealth is the quality of your attention (Sam Harris)
• "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

First one is uncredited in my notes. Last one I'm gonna let the Stackers figure out!

comparison is the theft of joy - especially apt in the age of shit-tok brain rot clout chasing!

Here are some.
"Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it." - George Carlin

"If the truth shall kill them, let them die." - Immanuel kant

"Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life." - Robin Sharma

Don't trust, verify!

I love a ton of them but I think the one that sticks out the most is
"good thoughts, good words, and good deeds" - Zoroaster

“Don’t think. Feel.”

“Some people hate you because you had less and still did more.”

“Be valuable, not available.”

“Worrying is like worshiping the problem”

I have an entire book of quotes that hit me hard but these are some more recent ones that resonate with me.

"The people are retarded."

-Osho

I got an ancient Chinese quote from Mengzi that I like a lot and often recite to myself whenever I face stress or hardship.

天將降大任於是人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其所爲。

It roughly translates to

When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a man, it will first test his will with hardship, exhaust his muscles and bones with toil, starve his body and skin, deplete his resources, and frustrate his efforts.

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered
Never send a human to do a computers job
Its best to be above reproach but sometimes plausible deniability will have to do
Want in one hand, shit in the other see which fills up first

Oh man. There's so many.
A few places to find some of my faves:
The Stoic Resurrection channels: #662497
19 David Goggins quotes: #826070
"Study the Greats" #872084
"Wars, Separation of Money and State" #555662
"On Enlightenment" #548857

"Aardvark jizz is frigid gas" - Amir

The line about shit salad from Drowning Mona

You are love. You are light.

"You all are a bunch of weirdos." - Me

This one isn't particularly profound, but I've been struck by the truth of it, many times:

From Upton Sinclair:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon him not understanding it."

I feel like I see this quote, embodied, in so many people!

These are some of my favorites (hard hitters):

1. We mature by damage and not age.
2. Never take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from.
3. Ships are safe at harbour. But that's not what they're built for.
4. "Until death, all defeat in psychological." - C.S. Lewis
5. "You are the average of five people you spend the most time with" - Jim Rohn

This other one requires the pictures to understand:

Please feel free to tell me how they were. I truly like people who have a taste for literature :)Please feel free to tell me how they were. I truly like people who have a taste for literature :)

A question a day, sats coming your way. -Me