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With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.
In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.
It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.
I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.
We all hurt, we all need, we all cry, we all bleed.
One of my favorite reminders that everyone has personal struggles.
Two plus two equals five for large values of two
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
"To infinity and beyond"
-- Buzz
"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."
James Baldwin
if you assume you make an ass of u and me
As one door closes, another opens on the shit-chute to hell
Some mountains are scaled, others are slain.
Education is experience and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
-- T H White
"Why did I follow him...? I don't know. Why do things happen as they do in dreams? All I know is that, when he beckoned... I had to follow him. From that moment, we traveled together, East. Always... into the East."
I only concern myself with 'how'. 'Why' is a question for philosophers and cowards, of which I am neither.
“Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry.. and I’ll give you something to cry about you little bastard.” -Jeff Goldblum - The Great White Hype
"these problems are the good ones to have." from an atmosphere song, where they got it form idk. but whenever im feeling like shits going south i remember this and it reminds me that its not all so bad.
We were shown an A&E biography episode on Ray Crock my freshman year of high school for career class and they quoted the dude as saying
If my competitors were drowning in a sea of gasoline, I would throw in a lit match.
Milkshake man was ice fuckin' cold!