Positive/Inspirational Quotes Thread.

You could pull just about any excerpt from Kerouac, and it will strike inspiration in my soul. But this one is probably my favourite, and one I revisit when I'm feeling a bit suffocated in my own typicalness.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww." - Jack Kerouac

 

"The stages in the development of nature have, therefore, by no means only a historical meaning. They are, indeed, moments, but moments of a simultaneous totality of nature and not of a particular and individual totality which itself would only be a moment of the universe, that is, the totality of nature.." - Ludwig Feuerbach

 

The most important saying ever uttered is the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Some life observations of my own:
Hating is harmful to the hater.
Always consider the best and worst possible motives for others' actions, not just the worst.

 

"A lie can lead to disaster, as a ripple may become a tsunami" - me

"A test of strength is physical, but a test of the mind is more complex than any action" - me

I'll think of more later.

 

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin

 

Very self-positive. However, as another saying goes, "It's worth what somebody will pay for it."

 

Not so much a positive quote but an inspirational one basically saying "fuck it, take a chance".

 

‘Trying is the first step to failure’


-Homer Simpson

 

If you wish to see Stars, all one has to do is look up. Digga's quote.

 

“Sometimes the best place to be is absent”

 

“Everything’s within walking distance if you have the time”. -Stephen Wright

 

I so often think of the above quote when my patience, or lack of, are tested in the garden.

 

Ha! A friend sent me this list of rich and poor. No, I did not write this.

 

Let me summarize this inspiring list:
"rich people are better than those undeserving poor people."

More items need to be added to the list:
11. Rich people think being rich makes them smarter than the rest of us
12. Rich people attribute any lucky success to their outstanding abilities