For me, a few come to mind:

  • “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”

It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.

  • “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”

It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.

There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    1·
    11 minutes ago

    “Silence deafens everything.” At first it seems counterintuitive, but being silent can “deafen” those around you (or society) to an issue or problem.

    And my friends dad commented on his wanderlust need : “It doesn’t matter where you travel to, you will never get away from yourself”

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    3·
    56 minutes ago

    Reminds me of bash.org RIP https://bash-org-archive.com/?top

    • “Where ever you go, there you are”
    • “We have just enough fuel to make it to the crash site”
    • “Ruh-Rouh”
    • “Deny, Deny, Deny - Until you believe!”
    • “A Rule without Enforcement is just wishful thinking”
    • “When life gives you lemons- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
    • “Ignoring a alert is the same as normalizing alerts, if it’s important, don’t ignore it, if it’s not important don’t alert for it”
    • “Follow the money” - Gripping Hand I think
    • “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” - Knuth maybe
    • “Once you know something is possible, doing it becomes a exercise in persistence.”
    • “Science isn’t what other people say, its what YOU can observe”
  • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    53 minutes ago

    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final.”
    – Rainer Maria Rilke

    This was used at the end of the movie Jojo Rabbit (one of my favorite movies of all time). I often remember this line when I feel like everything is going wrong, and it helps me hold on to hope.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 hours ago

    Actually this one and I just saw it on Lemmy too. As a life long Trek fan I have this quote in my head quite often.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    1·
    40 minutes ago

    Confident, Cocky, Lazy, Dead.

    The serial killer in the Tad Williams books, but it makes sense to me.

  • Redacted@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    The whole poem by Dylan Thomas is fantastic but that line in particular often pops into my head during difficult times, like these.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    I don’t have time for-/I didn’t have time to-

    What you are really saying is, “I didn’t prioritize-” and that’s OK sometimes. But be real with it. Sometimes it’s OK to prioritize other things, but when you start rephrasing it this way, you realize that you may be putting yourself, your partner, your kids, your family, in second or even third place.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    4 hours ago

    "How active you are in middle-age determines how active you will be able to be in old age. And that applies to any given decade of one’s life.

    Meanwhile, on Lemmy, we got people whining about sore backs and knees once they turn 30.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Work with elderly. Use it or lose it.

      Amount of people who struggle to walk because they got in a wheelchair at some point is fucking high

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
    18·
    4 hours ago

    Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

    -Vladimir Lenin

    Very applicable today, there’s no better time than the present to read theory and get organized. If anyone wants, I can post a short introductory reading list on Marxism.

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Thank you. Been thinking about finding good leftist quotes to as my phone wallpaper. Are there more, shorter quotes?

      I’m curious about the intro reading list. I’ve tried the manifesto and listened to some audiobooks by Dessalines. Are there newer articles that are recommended, that summarise/improve the pre-existing content? Especially ones that talk about how the things were/are to be applied.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        3·
        48 minutes ago

        Lenin is a huge yapper, he has tons of fantastic quotes. Another good one is “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

        Here’s a little “intro to Marxism-Leninism” list I threw together, modified a bit. It’s critically missing Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, and National Liberation theory, so any additions on that matter would be excellent. I am working through intersectional theory right now, which is why it is missing from this present list, the goal is to be as straight to the point as possible.

        A good intro for someone with no familiarity is Engels’ Principles of Communism and if you are anti-AES but willing to read I recommend Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.

        From there, it becomes more important to understand that Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components:

        1. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

        2. Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx’s Law of Value

        3. Advocacy for Revolutionary Socialism

        And as such, I recommend, in order:

        1. Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy

        By far my favorite primer on Dialectical and Historical Materialism. By understanding DiaMat first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism.

        1. Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

        Further reading on DiaMat, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, essentially explaining how Capitalism itself preps the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates.

        1. Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price and Profit

        Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value.

        1. Lenin’s Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism

        Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions.

        1. Lenin’s The State and Revolution

        Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, and not replaced. Also a good call to action to cap off the intro.

        After reading all of this, whoever has completed these works should have a good grasp of the basics of Marxism-Leninism and be equipped to do their own Marxist-Leninist analysis, though tons of excellent and fairly critical works were dropped for the sake of limiting the scope to an intro reading list.

        For your specific question regarding modern, easier to get into theory, I really love this person’s essays on Marxism. They are more advanced, but focus on modern Marxist analysis. I think Why Do Marxists Fail to Bring the “Worker’s Paradise?”, Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism, and Why Public Property? are 3 of the best modern essays and primers on Socialism. The first goes over the Materialist theory of Democratic Structures and how they can be built while critically analyzing AES through an AES-positive viewpoint, the second goes over misconceptions about the PRC, and the last helps explain why Marxists advocate for public ownership and central planning, and why Capitalism makes way for this through decentralized markets coalescing into monopolist syndicates.

        Let me know if you have any questions!