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I am the Senate now!

~ Chancelor Palpetine

Every society is three hot meals away from chaos.

"You can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just funny like peaches."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard"

I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.

Yes, I know Mother Theresa isn’t well liked, and for good reason, but I like this quote. It shows you how framing your words and actions can impact how they are perceived by others. It makes you think.

"The purpose of discipline is to live more fully, not less"

Hope is not a strategy.

It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

Cynical is a word used by the frightened to describe the realistic.

Actually this one and I just saw it on Lemmy too. As a life long Trek fan I have this quote in my head quite often.

The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.

Maya Angelou: "Do your best until you know better, then do better"

No one can change everything but everyone can change something.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

-Vladimir Lenin

Very applicable today, there's no better time than the present to read theory and get organized. If anyone wants, I can post a short introductory reading list on Marxism.

Your dog might not be your entire life, but you are the entire life of your dog

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

"How active you are in middle-age determines how active you will be able to be in old age. And that applies to any given decade of one's life.

Meanwhile, on Lemmy, we got people whining about sore backs and knees once they turn 30.

the ironic thing about common sense is that it is not that common.

Sometimes life's a bitch and you keep on living.

"Some people deserve to be punished." - Amos Burton (actor Wes Chatham), The Expanse season 2, in reference to an opportunist who had been enriching himself during a humanitarian crisis; comparing him to pimps that force kids and vulnerable people into prostitution.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The whole poem by Dylan Thomas is fantastic but that line in particular often pops into my head during difficult times, like these.

"I'm a leaf in the wind."

Said by Wash the pilot in the movie Serenity. I tend to whisper that to myself when things aren't going my way and I need a reminder to just go with the flow.

“Be excellent to each other”.

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept

"Growing hurts... but it's always worth the pain."

-My sister

“May I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

it's a variation of the serenity prayer and it's helped me immensely for the last 40ish years

"There's no such thing as retard/idiot proof, only retard/idiot resistant."

I don't have time for-/I didn't have time to-

What you are really saying is, "I didn't prioritize-" and that's OK sometimes. But be real with it. Sometimes it's OK to prioritize other things, but when you start rephrasing it this way, you realize that you may be putting yourself, your partner, your kids, your family, in second or even third place.

Reminds me of bash.org RIP https://bash-org-archive.com/?top

• "Where ever you go, there you are"
• "We have just enough fuel to make it to the crash site"
• "Ruh-Rouh"
• "Deny, Deny, Deny - Until you believe!"
• "A Rule without Enforcement is just wishful thinking"
• "When life gives you lemons- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD"
• "Ignoring a alert is the same as normalizing alerts, if it's important, don't ignore it, if it's not important don't alert for it"
• "Follow the money" - Gripping Hand I think
• "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" - Knuth maybe
• "Once you know something is possible, doing it becomes a exercise in persistence."
• "Science isn't what other people say, its what YOU can observe"

Happiness is for pussies.

Frankie from The Goon comics.

In my twenties life was a continual slog in a cycle of disappointment and desperation. That gave me something I could "steel myself" with.

"The sun will rise and set regardless of your life""

There's a guy on Youtube by the name of Chris Boden. Slightly controversial figure but he seems to mean well. A video of his that seemed to be venting/reconciling himself included the phrase

"So you wake up one morning in your impact crater and you start. Again."

I give myself a "Dammit, Steve" from Life Aquatic maybe twice a week. I'm a woman, and my name isn't Steve.

I've also got a lot of mileage out of, "everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption."

"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

This was used at the end of the movie Jojo Rabbit (one of my favorite movies btw). I often remember this line when I feel like everything is going wrong. It helps me hold on to hope.