The Quote Room

[LuxObscura]

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell first."
- Carl Jung

 

[LuxObscura]

"A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority."
- Booker T. Washington.

 

[universecannon]

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell first."
- Carl Jung

Dang. That's a good one.

 

[LuxObscura]

"Very soo you will smile and say, this was more than I prayed for"
- Unknown

 

[northape]

"Very soo you will smile and say, this was more than I prayed for"
- Unknown

Sounds like a threat

 

[LuxObscura]

Sounds like a threat

lol why?

 

[northape]

lol why?

I don't know. That was my first reaction. I thought, "I'll make you smile and you will get more than you've wished for." Most likely, my life experience filtered it.
I got more than I prayed for a few times in my life. In fact, I got so much more that I was kind of sorry in the end

 

[Voidmatrix]

I got a similar vibe. Like, an ironic threat Or a loving threat. "You don't be careful, I'll love the giggle shits outta you!"

One love

 

[LuxObscura]

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
- Nietzsche

 

[LuxObscura]

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
- Kafka

 

[LuxObscura]

"Life is a sum of all your choices. So what are you doing today?"
- Albert Camus

 

[LuxObscura]

"Force does not make right. Right makes force."
– Mr. Miyagi

 

[LuxObscura]

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
- Fydor Dostoevsky

 

[weirdoigo]

“And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like those dramas so beloved by the people—in which every villain is punished, and every act of virtue meets with its reward; we learn anew every day that the wisdom of the serpent fares better here than the gentleness of the dove, and that any thief can triumph if he steals enough. If mere worldly utility and expediency were the justification of virtue, it would not be wise to be too good. And yet, knowing all this, having it flung into our faces with brutal repetition, we still feel the command to righteousness, we know that we ought to do the inexpedient good. How could this sense of right survive if it were not that in our hearts we feel this life to be only a part of life, this earthly dream only an embryonic prelude to a new birth, a new awakening; if we did not vaguely know that in that later and longer life the balance will be redressed, and not one cup of water given generously but shall be returned a hundredfold?”

― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

 

[LuxObscura]

"When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear."
- Thomas Sowell

 

[LuxObscura]

"The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find ones passion and throw yourself into it."
- Epictetus

 

[Voidmatrix]

"The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find ones passion and throw yourself into it."
- Epictetus

In my case that means, SMOALK MOAR!

One love

 

[weirdoigo]

new to me

"There's a gateway in our minds
That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane.
Where reptile aliens made of light
Cut you open and pull out all your pain.
Tell me how you make illegal
Something that we all make in our brain.
Some say you might go crazy
Then again, it might make you go sane."
- Sturgill Simpson, Turtles All the Way Down (2014)

 

[weirdoigo]

“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded by Polishness, living in Poland. And so I needed to look deeper for my ‘self,’ in the place where it was no longer Polish but simply human”

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

 

[LuxObscura]

"Sometimes you must go to war with yourself to fix yourself."
- Unknown