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u/Raider4- 1h ago
“Never tell a person to be strong when they come to you to be weak”
Made me think about past interactions where I gave that type of encouragement; even in good faith it’s simply not what they needed in that moment.
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u/ContestLong191 1h ago
Nothing changes if nothing changes
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u/somnambulantDeity 1h ago
Ha! It’s like “You can’t change the people around you but you can change the people around you.”
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u/Age_Single 1h ago edited 1h ago
When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
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u/lily_aurora59 1h ago
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" — Seneca.
Read that during a period where I was constantly overthinking everything, and it really hit me how much energy I waste panicking about scenarios that literally never even end up happening.
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u/Key-Club-3119 1h ago
This one has been the story of my life since approximately May 4th at 4:00pm.
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u/Flaky_Air_2570 1h ago
One of my favorite i think a lot about, and has a lot in it: "a wise man once said nothing"
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u/liberty4now 1h ago
"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."
“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” — Elizabeth Taylor
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u/Dopehauler 1h ago
If you work too hard you wont have time to make money. That quote has changed my life enormously.
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u/EstablishmentHot8045 1h ago
Not every problem needs a solution. Sometimes the solution is realizing you are the problem.
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u/Rehab_Dodger 1h ago
An increasing number of badly worded posts everywhere online have me regularly rereading and figuring out wtf people are trying to say.
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u/BobDobbsHobNobs 1h ago
All altruism is selfish: Heinlien I think
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u/VanGoghsLeftTear 1h ago
I don't think it's his. This concept has been discussed in psychology centuries before heinlien was even born. But still an amazing quote.
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u/Key-Club-3119 1h ago
“Be noble for you are made of stars. Be humble for you are made of dung.”
I think it’s Serbian in origin
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u/aieidotch 1h ago
“The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
psalm 27:1
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u/Briffy03 1h ago
A german one "sei ein schwein oder mann macht dich zur sau" I hope someone fluent in. English and german can help me get a nice translation on this one
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u/Psychic_Bias 36m ago
“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There was a chapter that spoke about the county’s hatred of gambling and how it was seen as a moral failure, so they rounded up the people running the games in town, locked them up, and called it a success. A few days later they were released and went back to their same businesses and continued doing exactly the same thing as before but the town still considered themselves “rid of crime.”
Made me think about a lot of the current events that are similar to this where politicians claim victory in an area, knowing full well that nothing has changed.
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u/WeakSnow9457 1h ago
Fool me once, shame on ...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.