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Quotes To Make You Smile

Last updated: October 20, 2023

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“When I look back over my long life, if there is one thing that leaps out at me it is the role of luck and chance in our lives. From this particular string of accidental happenings all the rest followed.”
— Katharine Graham, Personal History
Tagged: Happenstance, Luck
“He didn't notice a single face as he took a seat. He saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowed down, and in his left ear the ringing of the cosmic Om started up clear as a telephone. When we suggested these details had been laced with the same THC in his blood, Trip Fontaine thrust a finger into the air, the only time his hands stopped shaking during the entire interview. 'I know what it's like to be high,' he said. 'This was different.' In the orange light the students' heads looked like sea anemones, undulating quietly, and the silence of the room was that of the ocean floor. 'Every second is eternal,' Trip told us, describing how as he sat in his desk the girl in front of him, for no apparent reason, had turned around and looked at him. He couldn't say she was beautiful because all he could see were her eyes. The rest of her face — the pulpy lips, the blond sideburn fuzz, the nose with its candy-pink translucent nostrils— registered dimly as the two blue eyes lifted him on a sea wave and held him suspended. 'She was the still point of the turning world,' he told us, quoting Eliot, whose Collected Poems he had found on the shelf of the detoxification center. For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.'”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
Tagged: Marijuana, Om, Trip Fontaine, Blue Eyes, Eternity, Flashback, Love, Descriptions of Perfect Love Ecstasy
“Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Tagged: Focus Mantras, Teleology, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“We have newspapers for all hours of the day. A clever head could still add a few more. This way everything, what everybody does, wants, writes, even what he plans, is publicly exposed. One can only enjoy oneself, or suffer, for the entertainment of others, and in the greatest rush, this is communicated from house to house, from town to town, from empire to empire, and at last from continent to continent.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture
Tagged: Media Annihilation, Media Everywhere!, Newspapers
“Every day I got up, went to work, and got hit in the face with something that I never could have predicted from a business that I'd originally started so I wouldn't have to talk to people. I went from doing small tasks with measurable results (selling more clothes!) to abstractions like going on E! News to talk about what's hot, or speaking at a conference. I didn't want to talk about my job— I wanted to do my job. But then talking about my job became my job. Even worse, people expected me to be a certain way just because I'd accomplished something. A sizeable part of me resented the fact that I had to choose my words carefully.”
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Tagged: Business Changes, Growth, Unpredictable, Impossible To Predict
“What I liked about basketball was how interconnected everything was. The game was a complex dance of moves and countermoves that made it much more alive than other sports I played. In addition, basketball demanded a high level of synergy. To succeed, you needed to rely upon everybody else on the floor, not just yourself. That gave the sport a certain transcendent beauty that I found deeply satisfying.”
— Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Tagged: Basketball, Sports as Transcendence, Teamwork
“I drag myself to the gym like a shift worker dragging himself to the factory. I limp onto the mat feeling tired and old, and after I warm up and get going . . . I have so much fun. The blubbery, congested sensation of incipient middle age gives way, and I feel young again, and strong. When I've competed well, and especially when I've held my own in the sparring, I leave the gym feeling so awake, my whole system revving with something purer than a runner's high. I drive home knowing that I've been going through life half asleep, and I feel a euphoric gratitude for my living muscle and bone and blood.”
— Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Tagged: Exercise, Muscle, Renewal, Strategies for Renewal, Youth
“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. ”
— Barack Obama, ala.org
Tagged: Education, Reading
“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
— Mark Watney, The Martian
Tagged: Mars, Ingenuity
“Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know and he always wore his seat belt”
— Ice Cube, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart And Conan Help A Student Driver - CONAN on TBS
Tagged: Ice Cube, Driving
“I’d like to see a private insurance system without artificial lines drawn between states. We need to get rid of those lines and let people and companies cross state lines to purchase the best plan for them. The government should get out of the way and let insurance companies compete for your business.”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
Tagged: Healthcare, Policy, Insurance, Competition, Business
“My father believed he had an obligation to his tenants. His motto was simple: You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job. That always made sense to me.”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
Tagged: Family, Values, Work, The American Dream, Career, Business
“I know that every poll shows that the public doesn't trust the media. The irony about that is that the media is conducting those polls. ”
— Donald Trump, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
Tagged: Media, Polling
“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Gender Wars, Equality, Girl Power, Sexual Harassment
“The first lesson — great men are always the kindest. The second lesson was that they nearly always lead the simplest lives.”
— Stefan Zweig, Collected Stories, Stefan Zweig
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become, Minimalism & Simplicity
“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it, do it, don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever”
— Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
Tagged: One Tree Hill, Life, inspiration, Time, Friends, Love
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what. ”
— Andy Warhol, So what?
Tagged: Philosophy, My aesthetic, Radical Apathy
“Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.”
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”
— Jerrica Peterson, Be The Girl That Travels
Tagged: travel, Hope, Life, Adventure, Change, Self-improvement
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. 
Begin again the story of your life.”
— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives Of The Heart
Tagged: Life, Starting Over, Change, Personal Growth, New Beginning, Failure, Growth
“A great nation is judged not by how many millionaires it has, not by how many nuclear weapons it has, but how it treats the weakest and most vulnerable amongst us.”
— Bernie Sanders, 2016 Democratic Debate In Milwaukee
Tagged: Politics, Wealth, Perspective, War, Greatness, Socialism
“Set up your own IPsec VPN server on Docker, with support for both IPsec/L2TP and IPsec/XAuth ("Cisco IPsec").

Based on Debian Jessie with Libreswan (IPsec VPN software) and xl2tpd (L2TP daemon).”
— hwdsl2, IPsec VPN Server on Docker
Tagged: Docker, VPN, Ops
“I don’t believe in goodbyes.

I don’t believe that the connections we have to people and things are temporary. That somewhere along the way they cease to exist, cease to carry meaning, cease to be something real. 

Because no matter the time, the distance, the loss in our life, they will forever carry weight. 

A goodbye implies that there is an end. And in human connections, in love, in life, there is no end. 

Just a transference to something else—new love, new connections, new relationships, a rebirth.”
— Marisa Donnelly, I Don’t Believe In Goodbyes
Tagged: Saying Goodbye, Losing A Loved One, Falling Out Of Love, Losing Love, The End Is Not The End
“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
— John Muir, Our National Parks
Tagged: Nature, beauty, Energy, Winds, Fresh
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Failure, Bouncing Back, Resilience, strength
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure and spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Solitude, Boredom, Silence, Tiredness, Adventure, Opposites, Death, Meaning
“So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book  ever written... Michelangelo? You know a lot about him I bet. Life's work, criticisms, political aspirations. But you couldn't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. And if I asked you about women I'm sure you could give me a syllabus of your personal favorites, and maybe you've been laid a few times too. But you couldn't tell me how it feels to wake up next to a woman and be truly happy. If I asked you about war you could refer me to a bevy of fictional and non-fictional material, but you've never been in one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him draw his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you about love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never looked at a woman and been truly vulnerable. Known that someone could kill you with a look. That someone could rescue you from grief. That God had put an angel on Earth just for you. And you wouldn't know how it felt to be her angel. To have the love be there for her forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand and not leaving because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term "visiting hours" didn't apply to you. And you wouldn't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you lose something you love more than yourself, and you've never dared to love anything that much. I look at you and I don't see an intelligent confident man, I don't see a peer, and I don't see my equal. I see a boy. Nobody could possibly understand you, right Will?”
— Robin Williams, Watch Good Will Hunting () online - Amazon Video
Tagged: Good Will Hunting, Relationships, True Love, Love
“Oh, Al. I’m getting kinda fond of you, kid. Not that I wanna pick out curtains or anything.”
— Robin Williams, Aladdin
Tagged: Robin Williams Quotes, Robin Williams
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
— Criss Jami, Healology
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
— Francine Jay, The Joy of Less: A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify (Updated and Revised)
“A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.”
— Anna Godbersen, Envy (Luxe, Book 3)
Tagged: Sister Love, ally
“We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne.”
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Tagged: Sister Love
“This 2016, instead of checking your horoscope, subscribe to the idea that you are capable. Divorce your insecurities, practice growing into who you are and away from who they assume you to be.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day
Tagged: Horoscope, Insecurities, Motivational, bullying, Self Improvement
“'I'm not a stranger,' I said, and pointed to his book. 'I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.'”
— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?
Tagged: Stranger, Books, Reading
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Despair, Foregiveness, survive, Faith, God, Trust, Good
“There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel Noble Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Tagged: Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel, human, humanity
“When we are alone, we learn how to be alone. The most productive moments of mending ourselves is done in the company of our own existence.”
— Leena Sanders, Here’s Why We Must Be Single Before Jumping Into A Serious Relationship
Tagged: Single, Being Single, Solo, Being On Your Own, Single Life
“This variable we know as change cannot be feared, because it is the thing that takes us to freedom. It takes us to the place where blossoms bloom out of our own souls dark places.”
— Leena Sanders, The Importance Of Change
Tagged: Change, Embracing Change, Understanding Change, accepting, Acceptance, Letting Go
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
— Roger Bannister, The Four-Minute Mile
Tagged: Life
“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Seize The Day, Getting Even, Helping Others, hurt
“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Healing, Seize The Day, Decisions, Living For Today
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Enjoying Life, Seize The Day
“Stop chasing after boys who don’t even make the effort to message you, chase you, or get to know you. You are sick of people who make you feel they don’t want you enough. Find someone who knows what they want. Find someone who knows what they want is you.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Enough, Never Good Enough, Moving On, Self Worth, Girl Power, Relationships, Dating, Break Up
“Being a man was not the opposite of being feminine or emotional. It was the opposite of being childish and immature. It meant having the courage to face your fears and responsibilities, but also not being afraid of your emotions or weaknesses.”
— Matthew Ryder, Depression, violence, anxiety: the problem with the phrase ‘be a man’
Tagged: Masculinity, Gender Norms, emotions, Weakness
“If I am always comparing myself to others, I will forever be at war with myself. And who needs that?”
— Khloé Kardashian, Strong Looks Better Naked
Tagged: Comparing, Self Worth, Relationships
“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
“When you really want love you will
find it waiting for you.”
— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Waiting, Searching, Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I am on my way. I can go the distance! I don’t care how far. Somehow I’ll be strong I know. Every mile will be worth my while. I would go most anywhere to find where I belong.”
— Hercules, Hercules
Tagged: Disney
“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry.”
— Roman Payne, via Facebook
Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman, Becoming A Woman, Passion, Passionate Woman, Poetry, My Favorites