Marcus Aurelius
- Our Inward Power.
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces, to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp, what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it, and makes it still burn higher.
Max Ehrmann
- Desiderata
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Hajime Isayama
- Attack on Titan
My village was located in the mountains in southeast of wall Maria. Unlike the thriving towns by the river, it took time for us to hear that the wall has been breached. In fact, the first we heard of it was from the titans. It was around dawn. The livestock got awfully noisy.
Piper Kerman; 2010
- Orange Is The New Black
But our current criminal justice system has no provision for restorative justice, in which an offender confronts the damage they have done and tries to make it right to the people they have harmed. (I was lucky to get there on my own, with the help of the women I met.) Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.
Nassim Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness
If rational traders detect a pattern of stocks rising on Mondays, then, immediately such a pattern becomes detectable, it would be ironed out by people buying on Friday in anticipation of such an effect. There is no point searching for patterns that are available to everyone with a brokerage account; once detected, they would be self-canceling.
Ashnikko
It's interesting, I'm from a really conservative, suburban town, and a majority of my family are very patriarchal. I mean, I love my family members, but they're slightly misogynistic, very closed-minded. But I'm sure a lot of us have families like that.
Alain De Benoist
- Beyond Human Rights
At the same time, everybody knows well that the ideology of human rights is a product of the thought of the Enlightenment, and that the very idea of human rights belongs to the specific context of Western modernity. The question then arises of knowing if the narrowly circumscribed origin of this ideology does not implicitly contradict its pretensions to universality.
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
- All things come to an end - Ruin
I keep trying to explain. This process we are engaged in, the end of all things - it's not a fight, but a simple culmination of inevitability. Can any man make a pocket watch that won't eventually wind down? Can you imagine a lantern that won't eventually burn out? All things end. Think of me as a caretaker - the one who watches the shop and makes certain that the lights are turned out, that everything is cleaned up, once closing time arrives.
the loner M
"I have faith in you" he said. I never knew people can say such thing without meaning it. Now I'm here staring at the places we were, thinking how pathetic I am to think that you meant anything that you said to me.
the loner M
How do you make me feel like this? Every time I see you, my heart skips a beat. I know we don't talk anymore. But why don't we talk anymore. Remember when you came to my door step? I was just eating chips and out of no where you said lets go hangout. I miss those times. I didn't realize it when I had the chance to. I like you. Now I know and it's too late. Look where we are now, we don't talk anymore.
Veronica Roth
- Divergent
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it. One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. One choice will define you.
Ariana Grande
- Two Famous Quotes
I don't regret any of the life decisions I've made in my life because with every choice I've made I've learned something new. Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can't sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?
James Greiy
If you believe that the destruction of humanity would be a good thing because humanity is evil, and an example of what you would consider evil is of humans doing harm to other humans, is that not a contradiction? If the destruction of humanity is good because humans are evil, this "evil" is also not evil, because it is being done to the same human beings you would destroy for being evil.
David Productions
- Diavolo's opening speech
No one can escape the fate that was chosen for them. All that remains is the end, where you will all perish. Eternal greatness exists only within myself. Sing a song of sorrow in a world where time has vanished.
Dave Grohl
- Friend of a friend
He plays an old guitar. With a coin found by the phone. It was his friend's guitar, that he played. He's never been in love, but he knows just what love is. He says "Never mind." And no one speaks.
Adventure Time
- Dentist
I WAS friends with Jake, then some baritone herb stole him away from me. 'I didn't STEAL him, we're brot-' And when that snow-white wiener dog is finally dead, Jake will be devastated... He'll need a shoulder to cry whiny, Finn-style tears on, and that shoulder will be mine - Tiffany's! Then I can get busy with undoing your cheesy influence, plus, more!
Adventure Time
- T i f f a n y
You're getting GREASED!" "Tiffany, look, we got to work together, right? Why don't we let bygones be bygones?" "BYGONES? HA! That's you! BYE-GONE!" "*sigh* Do you want my peach?" "BYE-GONE!
Adventure Time
- Dentist
See, this is a good example of why I want to kill you. You're ignorant. Heed my words, Finn - As the miller's wheel forever outrages the seed, so the good apple boringly receives his neighbor's worm. 'The hey...?' And all the corn gets smushed to grease, to grease under the miller's flipping wheel. You're getting GREASED!
John Constantine
My name is John Constantine. I'm the one who steps from the shadows all trench coat and arrogance. I'll drive your demons away, kick 'em in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down. Leaving only a nod and a wink and a wise crack. I walk my path alone, because let's be honest... who'd be crazy enough to walk it with me.
