The Wisdom Thread

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A beautiful moment from one of our greatest comedians:[YT]P3cPDbcRb8w[/YT]

 

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Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory..."

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Actor and comedian Bill Murray gets asked a simple yet complex question on Charlie Rose and I think he gives a simple yet complex and honest answer... Plus he quotes Clint Eastwood, so how awesome is that? Some wise words from Bill Murray:[YT]o9TvFkiLLMo[/YT]

 

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this is basically my go-to quote
“That’s how I survived. Time and time again. That’s my secret. I survived because I willed it to be. How did I survive apocalyptic fire? I simply refused to feel the flames.” - Emma Frost

 

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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
— Looking For Alaska, John Green

 

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That last one is so very true.

 

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^ this one is me so much. so so much.

 

[ComicChick]

I feel nothing
or I feel everything.
"I don’t know which is worse." - Author Unknown

- what if tattoos just randomly appeared on our skin at key points in our lives and we had to figure out what they meant for ourselves
-they do, they’re called scars

You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday. You know those people who live for the weekends? They’re wishing their life away. You have to find something worth living for or else you’ll look back and realize you’ve wasted your life away.
— Drew Marvin, English Teacher

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
— Robin Sharma
this one is hitting me way too hard these days. been on my mind a lot lately.

"That’s my problem: I think too much, and I feel too deeply. What a dangerous combination." - Author Unknown

I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The Book Thief is one of best books i've ever read. It was such a slow burn to start but once i got into it, i couldn't put it down. I mourned that book and the people in it for days after. usually if i really enjoy a book i will read it multiple times, but i'm still too emotionally attached (detached) to this book to read it anytime soon.

 

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There once was a man who desperately needed to see the Buddha. He had so many problems and didn't know what to do! After several weeks of climbing the Himalayas, he finally reached the ashram.

The man kneeled at the Buddha's feet and said, "Please help me Buddha, I have so many problems. My wife doesn't like me, my kids don't respect me, my boss gives me too much work and on my way over here I lost all my money. It seems that no matter what I do problems keep coming my way. How can I get rid of all this?"

The Buddha looked at the man, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry but I cannot help you."

The man's face quickly flushed with anger. "What do you mean you can't help me? You're the Buddha and you know everything. I have traveled for many days and you can't help me???," he screamed.

"Yes, I cannot help you. Your only problem is that you have problems and you don't want them. You see, as soon as you solve one poblem, another will replace it. Shift your perspective and you might not see these circumstances as problems. Rejecting your experience will only bring you suffering."

 

[KevanG]

"Just remember, everyone is a moron. The sooner you figure this out, the sooner you figure out you're one as well. Just remember to be nice to people because they're morons and they might figure out the rest some day."

 

[ComicChick]

Looking For Alaska Appreciation post, by CC
this book had a profound impact on me. I read it in one sitting, only stopping to get a glass of water. it stayed with me in my head for days afterwards. it hit so close to home i wasn't ready for it.

this is one of the first quotes i memorized when reading this book, ironically enough since it's from the end of it.

the quote above about the labyrinth is also from this book but i found an image of it, so enjoy

“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are."

What is an “instant” death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska

this book has a lot of memorable quotes, and the drizzle/hurricane one gets taken so far out of context that i won't include it, but in its entirety, it is a decent quote.

 

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I so want to believe this is how the universe works...

 

[Alex Murphy]

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

- Albert Einstein

 

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It's hard to hew to this these days Jack...

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I love cup quotes for wisdom.

 

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[Spider-Aziz]

"Get a job", sometimes words of wisdom, other times not so much.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Never take a **** in a toilet you can't flush.

 

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