#quotes
Thoughts
“If you see two fishes fighting in a pond then a Englishman must have passed by ! " ~ An American Saying !
“No wonder the sun never set on the British empire because even God couldn’t trust the English in the dark” Source: https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent.
Marwan Makhoul
Perfect is the enemy of good
Be more generous than necessary. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away. There is no point to being the richest person in the cemetery. Kevin Kelly
And the opposite of love is not hate after all, it is indifference. Source
I need to be proactive than reactive
You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright.
History never repeats exactly as it happened. But it does echo.
“You know what I think?" she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn’t matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They’re all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed ’em to the fire, they’re all just paper. The fire isn’t thinking ‘Oh, this is Kant,’ or ‘Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,’ or ‘Nice tits,’ while it burns. To the fire, they’re nothing but scraps of paper. It’s the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there’s no distinction–they’re all just fuel.” ― Haruki Murakami, After Dark
“So I have felt about this book also. It is mine and not wholly mine, as I am constituted today; it represents rather some past self of mine which has already joined that long succession of other selves that existed for a while and faded away, leaving only a memory behind. "
- Preface, The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Pressure is a privilege
“It is true that any criticism or demand no matter how innocuous it’s appearance but which cannot be accommodated by a system is in the long run subversive of the system”
Source: India’s Struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra
“Prison try to get me all my life, it ain’t got me yet. And when it finally does, it won’t be because of you. No offense”
Source: Once upon a time in Hollywood
“The new atheists share with the religious fundamentalists the belief that their way of seeing the world is the only way there is. Now science is a valid way of seeing the universe, religion is a valid way of seeing the universe and they have the difference between prose and poetry. So anyone who thinks only prose exists or we only need poetry is a fundamentalist because they fail to understand the many ways in which we have to interpret the universe in order to live a meaningful life.”
Source: Found this on my notepad
“To wait. In our lives, we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”
Source: The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai
“If something is important enough, a little mistake isn’t going to ruin it all, or make it vanish.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pillgrimage, c17
Quotes from Pulp Fiction:
“The Days Of Me Forgetting Are Over, And The Days Of Me Remembering Have Just Begun.”
“Just Because You Are A Character Doesn’t Mean You Have Character.”
“Pride Only Hurts, It Never Helps.”
“Trying To Forget Anything As Intriguing As This Would Be An Exercise In Futility.”
“everyone loses 10 years to something, somewhere along the line”
Source: This HN comment
Explaination:
Read through the thread. Look how many stories there are of people losing years and years to something that they now regret. The realization is that this is the norm, not the exception. We’re all just fragile and fallible and trying to make our way through life as best we can, and we all end up messing up big somewhere along the way.
It’s easy to look back on 10 wasted years and think you failed, you blew your one chance at life. But if you come to realize that looking back on 10 wasted years is actually a common human struggle, it can help you reframe your regret as just another one of the trials of being a limited, mortal human and not take it so personally as your own failing.
“Whatever your goal is, try to stop having 0% days.
You don’t need to have 100% days, Just avoid having 0% days.”
Source: Reply to this HN comment
“Youth is wasted on the young”
“Poor countries make clothes. Rich countries make machines that make clothes.”
“Whatever you say about India, the opposite is also true.”
“Why settle for less than the best solution?”
Source: Pinned Comment
“Butterflies use nanotechnology to lie about their colors”
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
“One of the worst things somebody can do to you is pay you just enough money to lead a good life.”
Source: https://youtu.be/QN2vXIXWNvc
“Everything not saved will be lost”