Brandon Sanderon
- The Hero of Ages
We have to find a balance... The balance between who we wish to be, and who we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
Mark Manson - Everything is F*cked
One day, you and everyone you love will die. And beyond a small group of people for an extremely brief period of time, little of what you say or do will ever matter. This is the uncomfortable truth of life. And everything you think or do is but an elaborate avoidance of it. We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose - we are nothing.
-Joji
- Like You Do
Since I met you, all the gloomy days just seem to shine a little more brightly. Consider what we've got 'cause I can never take you for granted. If you ever go, all the songs that we like will sound like bittersweet lullabies. Lost in the blue, they don't love me like you do. They don't matter now, you're the one I can't lose.
Ben&Ben
- Leaves
Leaves will soon grow from the bareness of trees, and all will be alright in time. From waves overgrown come the calmest of seas, and all will be alright in time. Oh, you never really love someone until you learn to forgive.
Loki S01E02
- Existence is Chaos
Because if you think too hard about where any of us came from, who we truly are, it sounds kinda ridiculous. Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it. And I'm just lucky that the chaos I emerged into gave me all this... my own glorious purpose.
Bill Bonney
My pal and I decided to watch all the Star Wars films back to back. Bad idea. First of all, the plot actually doesn't make sense unless you take a little more time to build suspension of disbelief. Second of all, I actually don't know what was going on because we were back to back and he was the one facing the TV.
Anonymous
A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. Consider the following two sentences. Jack put his wife's leftovers in the freezer. Jack put his wife's colon in the freezer.
Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman
In teaching our material we use a dialect of the programming language Lisp. We never formally teach the language, because we don't have to. We just use it, and students pick it up in a few days.
Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman
We want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Mishna
- Old Jewish Saying
Anyone who is well liked by his fellow human beings is well liked by God, while anyone who is disliked by his fellow human beings is disliked by God. It is best when ordinary human beings are pleased with you, the simple sincere people of action.
23wasHere
- Typing Before Bed
Sometimes I like to have a nice typing session before calling it a night. As I lie in bed, I can still feel the vibrations of the keys in my fingers. After a few moments in bed, I begin to grow restless, trying to resist the urge of getting up and typing all through the night. I usually fail though, and I'm left sleep-deprived the next day.
Vince Lombardi
- Dedication Quote
After all the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written, and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and after all the pomp and fanfare have faded, the enduring thing that is left is the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.
George MacDonald
- Phantastes, chapter 24
I knew now that it is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another... I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases... Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.
Lauren
- Differing Opinions
I have read many "quotes" requesting (demanding more like) people stop posting inspirational quotes. One writer even went so far as to say they would rather type the Bee Movie script than type inspirational quotes. Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion. My opinion is that I enjoy the variety of quotes on this site. So many typing sites make you type the same script over and over again, so tedious. Please keep submitting your wondrous variety! It makes a dull day go by pleasantly.
Alastair Reynolds
- Absolution Gap
But, by the same token, this realisation was also strangely liberating: if an individual human existence meant so little, if one's actions were so cosmically irrelevant, then the notion of some absolute moral framework made about as much sense as the universal ether. Measured against the infinite, therefore, people were no more capable of meaningful sin - or meaningful good - than ants, or dust.
Jasmine Smith
- Oh This Life I Call Mine
And so he waits patiently underneath a tattered umbrella and resumes his thoughts on this perfunctory life. Business is failing, the coffee's taste is wiped away from the rain that slashed in his cup, and the train has yet not arrived. Just another day in the life that he wishes he could not participate in.
You Decide
- Best Fitting Music
So I already wrote this idea down but then it got deleted so I'm going to try and say it again: The best type of music for people that are striving for peace is likely contemporary instrumental. If you are one that is sitting in silence, wanting to fill a void and don't know how, like me like 2 days ago, just turn on some instrumental restaurant music (likely French) and you will have peace of mind. Listen to this song and see where it takes you: "Rue des Trois Freres" by Fabrizio Paterlini.
Unknown
- Truth and Lies
"The truth is the truth, even if no one believes it. And a lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it." This is something my mother told me and I've never been able to forget. Thinking about it brings me both clarity and confusion.
