Favorite quotes to live by

PursuitOfPerfect · 2014-05-10T21:56:58+00:00

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Air4ce1 · 2014-05-10T20:43:00+00:00

"Do what you have to do, so you can do what you want to do" - Dad

christiefrontdrive · 2014-05-10T22:14:08+00:00

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"

-H.L. Mencken, Prejudices

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

creatorman · 2014-05-10T22:22:52+00:00

This too shall pass

RedDeadRepentance · 2014-05-10T23:37:38+00:00

The great Charles Bukowski talking about life.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery - isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

HolographicWhaleTail · 2014-05-10T21:02:07+00:00

I thought I was in love with a girl in middle school and I pursued her so much that she stopped wanting to be around me.

My friend's dad sat me down one day and told me something in Spanish. I can't remember the exact phrase, but it translated into "The one who chases never catches"

note: In Mexican Spanish, the word "coger" means to catch or take and, in slang, to fuck. So what he said was I guess a play on words.

theredpill101 · 2014-05-10T22:49:01+00:00

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot

Likewise:

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” -William Shedd

le_king_falcon · 2014-05-10T23:05:07+00:00

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."

T.E. Lawrence : The seven pillars of wisdom.

Reminds me that I must act to achieve anything, a dream will only ever be a dream until I act upon it.

meneer_samsa · 2014-05-10T22:30:00+00:00

"Life's too short to dance with fat chicks" - some dude from Californication

BaltoSquadGuy · 2014-05-10T22:35:01+00:00

Reverend Philipp Brooks, quoted himself by President Kennedy:

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

While I'm not overly religious, the sentiment of raising yourself to overcome instead of wishing things were easier encompasses my redpill journey.

theozoph · 2014-05-10T22:45:33+00:00

"There is a phenomenal danger in playing it safe."

-Bill Burr

papadop · 2014-05-11T00:26:13+00:00

"I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free" - Nikos Kazantzakis

People say it's sounds morbid, but that's because they haven't thought it through. True independence is when your remove your inhibitions to action. Fear is the one we all know, but hope is passivity. If you hope one day you'll find a great girl, hope you get wealthy, hope you'll eventually lose weight --- your desiring or pursuing something without taking action.

rtvest · 2014-05-11T02:38:24+00:00

"You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality" - Ayn Rand

dsav2 · 2014-05-10T23:02:30+00:00

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.” - Vince Lombardi

Club_Soda_Kenny · 2014-05-10T22:46:39+00:00

"You can't fuck with the truth" - Patrice O'neal

t21spectre · 2014-05-11T01:37:10+00:00

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

~Calvin Coolidge

GreenRoom0101 · 2014-05-11T02:16:16+00:00

Go where you want, not where you are wanted.

MrKei · 2014-05-11T07:00:22+00:00

‎"Homeland is not flags, anthems, or apodictic speeches about emblematic heroes, but a handful of places and people that populate our memories and tinge them with melancholy, the warm sensation that no matter where we are, there is a home for us to return to." - Mario Vargas Llosa

"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds." - Henry Rollins

SadFace959 · 2014-05-11T02:39:10+00:00

"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

RedPillMotors · 2014-05-11T00:13:20+00:00

"IF-" by Rudyard Kipling. The whole damn thing, but I particularly like the last 4 lines and should resonate here:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

easythrowaway123 · 2014-05-11T00:28:16+00:00

"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts." - Lawrence of Arabia

realityczek · 2014-05-10T21:58:59+00:00

"I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

Ayn Rand, in Atlas Shrugged

dat_acetone · 2014-05-11T04:36:14+00:00

I ask not for lighter burdens, but broader shoulders

-Jewish Proverb

Helmut_Newton · 2014-05-11T00:01:46+00:00

"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety." - H.L. Mencken

swordblade · 2014-05-11T02:25:40+00:00

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

scallopkid · 2014-05-11T03:56:02+00:00

"You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun.

I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free." - Eris

elduckbell · 2014-05-11T06:43:20+00:00

Don't trust China. China is asshoe

https://biden2020.win/

slaythebad · 2014-05-11T05:13:38+00:00

Life's as extreme as you want to make it

Samuikr · 2014-05-11T06:46:26+00:00

I live today like no one wants, so I can live tomorrow like no one can.

TannhauserOverture · 2014-05-11T09:10:23+00:00

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S. Thompson

mordanus · 2014-05-10T21:20:16+00:00

Work hard when life is shitty so you can play when life is good.

blazeitfiggot · 2014-05-11T03:42:05+00:00

"Cash rules every thing around me"

Patriarchal_Bondage · 2014-05-11T04:53:55+00:00

"If I don't love me no one else will." - Me, I think.

DivineEnvoy · 2014-05-11T12:08:00+00:00

"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." -Julius Caesar

Love this quote as it inspires me to do good, and to physically create what I want to, to create a better version of myself.

smokingmonkey420 · 2014-05-11T12:16:34+00:00

"The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less then he Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."

John Milton, Paradise Lost

This is the devil speaking, FYI.

wazzym · 2014-05-11T12:21:53+00:00

This is what I reapeat everytime to myself

"The only thing that's worse than rejection is the fear of rejection"

FLFTW16 · 2014-05-11T13:40:32+00:00

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Sturmgeist781 · 2014-05-11T18:58:57+00:00

I dislike posting Fight Club quotes because everyone else does, but I really enjoy them and try to stay motivated.

"You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your grande latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your fucking khaki's..." - Tyler Durden

Acksiom · 2014-05-10T21:35:28+00:00

Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

rife_omeqa · 2014-05-11T02:50:00+00:00

Be good, or be good at it.

Movonnow · 2014-05-11T09:05:05+00:00

Be selfish.

JoePants · 2014-05-11T13:54:11+00:00

"In the end, everything is a gag," - Charlie Chaplin

"You can't fix everything," my Dad, RIP

d6x1 · 2014-05-11T15:09:45+00:00

If you're going through hell, keep going

physicalchemistry · 2014-05-11T15:45:45+00:00

I tend not to cling to quotes, but there are a few lines that act as a sort of anchor for me.

starting with:

Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken.

another important one for me is (stolen from pook)

Think as THEY shall become.

politically completely incorrect, yet true nonetheless:

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

Xero_hax · 2014-05-11T17:08:35+00:00

Fortune favors the bold.

KinkyAstronaut · 2014-05-11T18:31:16+00:00

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

2014-05-11T19:53:48+00:00

"Strike when the iron is hot."

leboneserambo · 2014-05-12T07:43:01+00:00

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" Bruce Lee

l0ng_time_lurker · 2014-05-13T13:54:34+00:00

"Don´t chase after subways and women - there will always be a next one"

2014-05-13T23:32:20+00:00

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." -Nietzsche

smokejiggy · 2014-05-11T02:12:26+00:00

Be true to yourself to become who you are

Saltiestofpeanuts · 2014-05-11T18:55:29+00:00

''If your're afraid of getting into the game you have no chance of winning''

Translated from danish, it sounds better and more quote-ish when said in prementioned language.

penhova · 2014-05-10T21:40:05+00:00

alpha fucks/ beta bucks

2014-05-11T15:24:03+00:00

Yolo. Or yolf, if you're Christian

Title	Favorite quotes to live by
Author	smokingmonkey420
Upvotes	55
Comments	101
Date	May 10, 2014 7:58 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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