Anyone have any quotes/maxims that they live their lives by?

[Beholders_Eye]

 

[latecomer91364]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
~ George Santayana

 

[cadman7777]

Do the next right thing

 

[latecomer91364]

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Chillygirl]

Chin up, boobs out!

Just something a friend would tell me when it was time to quit wallowing. Always made me smile and she was right…gotta keep moving forward.

 

[OralAllOver]

No matter how beautiful she is, or handsome he is, or attractive they are: someone is tired of fucking them

 

[OralAllOver]

"No friend ever served me, nor an enemy wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."


- the epitath that Lucius Cornelius Sulla wrote for his own tomb according to Plutarch

Other than Marius, probably true

 

[kellyt1994]

McCullough's Masters of Rome series was incredible. Marius and Sulla both just jump off the page. I remember the part about Sulla relenting on his proscription of Julius Caesar but in order to teach him humility he forbade him to ride a horse. For the first 10 or so years of JC's military career he rode a donkey. That's how scary Sulla was.

 

[Bloodandglitter]

"No challenge should be faced without a little charm and a lot of style." The Bluetones

"Ain't no thing like me, except me." Rocket Raccoon

"You do what you love and fuck the rest" Little Miss Sunshine

 

[Noor]

“ no more musicians “

 

[SandraMaus]

We can still learn a lot from fruit. Fruit simply picked up the strawberry, although it is actually a nut. Fruit does not run through the streets and calls: "Strawberries out!" or "strawberries steal our jobs!" Just be more like fruit.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"The more I know, the more I know there’s more to know" - paraphrased from something

 

[ALovelyNudist]

I don’t know if it’s a saying but I believe in Karma. Do good and treat others as you wish to be treated

 

[Liberia]

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

It's true though.

 

[EmmAgain]

“They’re just jealous.”

I know how narcissistic and typical of Gen Z that sounds, but it’s a mantra that’s faithfully inoculated me against any sort of moral judgment, financial envy, or basic slut-shaming thrown my way

I finished my international baccalaureate DP (ha ha!) program with 42 points. Half that time I was on exchange in Argentina having sex on camera twice a day for Privacy.com.br. I worked my ass off and rightfully deserved every academic distinction and sweat-streaked dollar that came my way.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

It's true though.

Only partially. It's also logistics - where's the good soil? Fresh water? Other resources? - and interpersonal. Oversimplification can be helpful getting your arms around a problem, but it can also blind you to other aspects of that problem preventing effective solutions

 

[Liberia]

Only partially. It's also logistics - where's the good soil? Fresh water? Other resources? - and interpersonal. Oversimplification can be helpful getting your arms around a problem, but it can also blind you to other aspects of that problem preventing effective solutions

That's all the material world, of course that plays a role. Have you read Engels about work in forming humanity? That's eco-materialism right there.

 

[Liberia]

Only partially. It's also logistics - where's the good soil? Fresh water? Other resources? - and interpersonal. Oversimplification can be helpful getting your arms around a problem, but it can also blind you to other aspects of that problem preventing effective solutions

"Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. The people who, in Mesopotamia, Greece, Asia Minor and elsewhere, destroyed the forests to obtain cultivable land, never dreamed that by removing along with the forests the collecting centres and reservoirs of moisture they were laying the basis for the present forlorn state of those countries. When the Italians of the Alps used up the pine forests on the southern slopes, so carefully cherished on the northern slopes, they had no inkling that by doing so they were cutting at the roots of the dairy industry in their region; they had still less inkling that they were thereby depriving their mountain springs of water for the greater part of the year, and making it possible for them to pour still more furious torrents on the plains during the rainy seasons. Those who spread the potato in Europe were not aware that with these farinaceous tubers they were at the same time spreading scrofula. Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature – but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly."

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm

 

[Rising_Star07]

I don’t know if it’s a saying but I believe in Karma. Do good and treat others as you wish to be treated

Good .
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[latecomer91364]

"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once." From The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings (1922).