A fine-ass collection of bold, timeless lines with bite 🫦 picked by Dilanka for people who think too much and love it.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. —Jeremiah 29:11
Scooby-Doo teaches kids that the scary monster usually isn’t a monster at all - it’s a person with an ordinary, usually selfish motive hiding behind a frightening disguise. —Dilanka
One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. ―Don Vito Corleone telling his son in Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. Hence his victories bring him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage. Translation : When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all. —Sun Tzu, Art of War
Reculer pour mieux sauter —The French saying translates to “step back to leap better.” It means taking a strategic retreat or pausing your current progress to build momentum, assess a situation, or prepare for a much stronger push forward.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Translation : People naturally prefer comfort and predictability, so they will tolerate…
A real soldier does not fight because he has something that he hates in front of him. He fights because he has something that he loves behind his back. —G.K. Chesterton
An overwhelming state of spiritual or mental numbness, apathy, and listlessness where a person completely loses the motivation to care about or engage with life. —Acedia, Greek word
An intellectual dead-end or state of puzzle (e.g., An egg comes from a chicken, but a chicken comes from an egg), where you hit an intellectual dead-end where there is no easy logical way forward. —Aporia, Greek word
WAYNE A mother can but guide … then step aside—I knew I could not say, “This is the way that you should go.” For I could not forsee what paths might beckon you to unimagined heights that I might never know. Yet, always in my heart I realized That you would touch a star … I’m not surprised! —Hazel Dyer (poem written by Wayne Dyer’s mother Hazel to his son Wayne)
Latin adage meaning “make haste slowly” — It encourages taking a balanced approach to life and work - urging you to proceed with urgency and purpose, but with enough patience and care to get the job done right the first time. —Festina lente
Those who can not conceive friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a friend. The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways, nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever…
There can be no offense heavier than that of him in whom such a sacred trust has been reposed, who sells it for his own gain and enrichment. He is worse than the thief, for the thief robs the individual, while the corrupt official plunders an entire city or state. —Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ―Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Most people prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty. —Virginia Satir
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social…
The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief…
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. —President Gerald Ford, in an address to a joint session of Congress (August 12, 1974)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. —Abraham Lincoln
My grandma once told me something that stopped me cold. She said: Baby, come sit down for a minute. Let me tell you something life showed me after all these years. Most of the people you see every day right now… in about five years, they’re going to be strangers. Not because something bad happened. Not because somebody fell out. Life just keeps moving. The coworker you laugh with every day at…