What words made you changed forever and from who?

ProtoMonk · 2015-05-05T17:03:11+00:00

"Nothing frightens those around you more than a Man confident in his own value because he cannot be shamed into servitude." - TRP user

MustardLordXVII · 2015-05-05T18:32:29+00:00

I want to quote from 48 laws but I'd literally be spamming your thread with the book lol

MuchAdoAboutNada · 2015-05-06T04:43:18+00:00

"Carpe diem" - My boxing coach.

After every session he would ask me what I'm doing today and every time I would say I wasn't doing anything... One day he asked me and I once again responded by saying I wan't doing anything. He stopped me and asked me if I knew what 'Carpe Diem' meant. I said no. He looked at me and said "It means seize the day, now go out there and run until you think of something useful to do"

Big_ol_Bro · 2015-05-05T19:49:25+00:00

This isn't a quote but some insight. If you have to look for external validation, you're in trouble. It seems that no one in this thread has said anything meaningful to you, so maybe try looking internally for something that drives you.

I try to do things that I know I'm interested in, the toughest part is finding what you're interested in.

DarkisKnight · 2015-05-05T23:47:12+00:00

"I hate you and I never want to see you ever again!" <throws shit at me, and slams the door in my face>

autolex84 · 2015-05-05T19:27:52+00:00

"All good opportunities come when they're least opportune. Be ready." - Autolex84

billthane · 2015-05-05T22:09:11+00:00

A year from now, you’re going to be a year older. What are you going to do? ~Ramit Sethi's mother

Time goes by deceptively fast - will you look back on that year with pride or regret?

_lock_down_ · 2015-05-05T23:01:17+00:00

"Nothing is true. Anything is possible." Altaiir Ibn-La'Ahad

Sounds corny but one of the things I keep in mind. Helps with DGAF mentality.

CalvinHobb3s · 2015-05-05T21:30:20+00:00

"oh well". I know it might sound lame. But This was my Marine friends favorite saying. Anytime I'd bitch to him about anything or there would be a tough situation. He'd just calmly quip that, usually followed by an evil laugh. It was so simple but when taken to heart it has so much power to it. It's gotten me through almost unbearable pain and suffering. Instead of bitching, when you trivialize your pain, all of a sudden you have the power. You decide how "bad" it really is. Takes a while to wrap your head around it in the proper context I'm using it. But it really works.

RiseAboveRuin · 2015-05-05T23:42:59+00:00

"Mans greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain why to succeed is to try just one more time." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

alexinikita · 2015-05-06T02:10:37+00:00

"I've been a slave all my life" when I discovered TRP last year.

"Yea" - the shrink

kcchiefs0927 · 2015-05-06T02:45:14+00:00

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

-Pablo Picasso

IronBallsOfKnowledge · 2015-05-06T02:56:39+00:00

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now, you are at the Olympic games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. This is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be Socrates."

DowntownSacramento · 2015-05-06T04:59:05+00:00

Does the spoon taste the soup?

AnotherAmen · 2015-05-06T05:21:55+00:00

"Take the gloves off and take your life in your own hands"

pbfryman · 2015-05-06T07:11:27+00:00

I've learned that you can't treat every situation as a life-and-death matter because you'll die a lot of times. Write that down. -Van Wilder

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere -Van Wilder

redbluepilling · 2015-05-06T07:26:46+00:00

"It is what it is."

This is the verbal form of Acceptance, and you can move on from there. It applies to larger paradigms (such as TRP) down to individual situations that would have otherwise caused an emotional blindness.

RPthrowaway123 · 2015-05-06T12:56:24+00:00

When my dad admitted that his first wife cheated on him. A the time, I didn't even know he had been married previously, it wasn't something anyone in the family ever talked about. I was in a huge tailspin over some bitch, and he dropped that bomb on me to snap me out of it.

He got over it, found my mom, got married. He was 35 and she was 26. This woman is my mother and she's wonderful. Now he's got my sister and I and is coming up on retirement, which he plans to spend playing guitar and walking at the state park with the dog.

In a nutshell, it was a lesson in oneitis. He could've broken down and been a hermit, but he got the fuck back out there and met a 26 year old. Now he has a wife and family that respects him, he has had a fantastic career, and he's enjoyed life to the fullest. And he plans to keep it that way.

LushForests · 2015-05-06T01:54:07+00:00

"Never trust a single woman, no matter what they say you have to be very fucking careful. They will all lie cheat and steal." - My father

You didn't say it had to change me in a good way. But these words always make me think twice, driving relationships, dates, friendships to the ground. I see a lot of truth in those words.

iLLxNarcotiix · 2015-05-06T18:54:22+00:00

Had oneitis then read a RP user post "She doesn't belong to you. It was only your turn". That shit woke me up.

MagicJuggler · 2015-05-06T04:24:14+00:00

"Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein

l30l3l3Y · 2015-05-10T18:08:06+00:00

"You used to be ....fun" the only girl I have ever fallen in love with right before leaving me. Made me change into someone who relies on themselves for happiness, not others. Also made me realize that women like fun guys, not "providers" which is what i forced myself to be for her because it was what society had taught me to be for the girl I loved.

Title	What words made you changed forever and from who?
Author	moveon4ever
Upvotes	16
Comments	49
Date	May 5, 2015 4:50 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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