"Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: ‘Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of goodwill, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with goodwill and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with goodwill—abundant, enlarged, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.’ That’s how you should train yourselves.
I’m not Buddhist but one of my best friends is and he shared this with me recently, I thought it was cool.
Kind of similar to Yoda from Star wars:
You will know… when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
Kind of… Lol well either way they seem wise to me
I would do anything for it like I mean I love it that much like I mean:
it’s like a vampire needs blood right you know what I’m saying
~Me white wolf
We have a better chance at curing cancer than curing stupidity.
~ Someone
Almost sure I’ve heard it somewhere before, but the thought came to me because of a line in a song by Harvey Danger.
The line goes:
“Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding”
PS: Don’t know the song or artist; just watching a TV series and heard it.
You watching Peep Show?
No. Show named “Apple Cider Vinegar”.
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2
" When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -spoken by Sherlock, written by Doyle
“The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.” - Oscar Wilde
“You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it’s called bad luck.” -Lou Reed, stanza from Street Hassle
edit: bold quotes too loud for me. dialed down
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.”
Albert Camus
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
~ Unknown (Often attributed to Sinclair Lewis, though no proof of this can be found)
Under capitalism man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
Some quotes from John Stuart Mill:
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them… he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
So long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name [like God] must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.
That about sums it up with one exception. . . . 'A country run by tyrants will never stop oppressing people. ’
That’s when I realized that being alone is one of the worst things that could ever happen to you. I know how it felt to miss someone. Did he miss someone too?
~A Dog’s Purpose quote unquote Bailey the dog
One of my favorite movies ever 