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"you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass"

Been almost 30 years, what a dumb quote to come to mind so often. I never say it, haven't seen Die Hard 3 since the '90s, no idea why it's stuck so hard

If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.

"If you are racist, I will attack you with the North"

"Better say sorry than ask for permission"

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"

I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."

I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."

“There isn't any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover

"Love is the only rational act." -Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.

This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.

"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future"

Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)...

To enjoy life's immensity, you do not need many things.

• Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

Ain't no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

• Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do.

• Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

• Winston Churchill

猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

Even monkeys fall from trees.

• Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

True victory is victory over one's self.

• Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido

From citizen Kane:

"It's easy to make a lot of money, if all you want is a lot of money"

Or something to that effect. Think about that line often

"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."

In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday

• Sun Ken Rock manga

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." - Neil Postman

"If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't fuck with them." A quote from my TI in basic from 85'.

"The only thing to abuse is moderation" - A song quoting Sénèque, but I never found the original sentence from Sénèque (apparently he was talking about Sex in it but I think it applies to anything in life)