"LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
From Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.
A new one I heard from Nightcrawler, he probably quoted someone else...
"Love is best measured by the things we forgive. "
"There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived." —Anomander Rake
From Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Survival is insufficient
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
From The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
We growing wiser, or are we just growing tall?
Intelligence is the ability to understand and predict things.
Wisdom is the tendency to make decisions that turn out well.
I figure by that definition knowledge, conditioned responses, muscle memory, perspective, commitment to certain values, beliefs, it’s all part of wisdom.
I always heard it as "intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
Don't do what you think you have to do... only do what you absolutely must do
“Rhymes is made of garlic”
— Ghostface Killa
“Anything that detracts from enjoying yourself is to be avoided.”
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” Harry S. Truman
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it"
And at the end:
"No one keeps death in view, no one refrains from far-reaching hopes; some men, indeed, even arrange for things that lie beyond life—huge masses of tombs and dedications of public works and gifts for their funeral-pyres and ostentatious funerals. But, in very truth, the funerals of such men ought to be conducted by the light of torches and wax tapers, as though they had lived but the tiniest span." [As if a child had died]
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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