Random quotes
An invocation for beginnings from the YouTube video of the same name.
Let me think about the people I care about the most, and how when they fail or dissapoint me, I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
It is not the critic who counts, by Teddy Roosevelt April 1910. Or as delivered amazingly by Anthony Hopkins in The Worlds Fastest Indian.
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
No feeling is final. A YouTuber called TomatoAnus commentates on game speedruns, and always has a little bit of time each video to talk about mental health.
No feeling is final, how you are feeling is not definitive, and you will not feel that way for the rest of your life. Nor are you defined by those feelings. Feelings of dread or dispear are just where you are, not who you are. There is a tomorrow, and whatever you are going through cannot take that away from you. You are so much stronger than you know or give yourself credit for.
Flo and Joan, modern mystical forest dwelling lyrical geniuses. And their song “Questions” hits you with some of lifes hardest questions.
Why are my toe nails so strong?
Why is my willpower so weak?
And from another part of the song, not life changing, but quite funny.
Why does Sambuca make me sexy?
Why does gin make me cry?
Why does vodka make me Russian?
Why does beer make me shit myself?
Not being bothered by other people really bothers some people.
Sara Sedej
(She claims she didn’t come up with it, but this is on the internet now, so that makes it legal.)
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The first time most men are given flowers is at their funeral.
Some random dude on YouTube Shorts
We are four brothers.
One of us will not experience a brother dying and will have three mourning at his graveside.
One of us will watch all the others pass, and have none to mourn him.
Me
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
Terry Pratchet
I'm not lifting my foot until I see God or a checkered flag
Ross Chastain
