Everytime you eat a steak, a hippie's hacky sack falls in the gutter.
-Patton Oswalt
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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"HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN!!" - Red, The Roadside Picnic
An impossible wish, yet one that burned itself into my heart the moment I read it, and a quote that has kept me walking.
“Ignorance is bliss.”
Life, don't talk to me about life...
In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday
- Sun Ken Rock manga
I only concern myself with 'how'. 'Why' is a question for philosophers and cowards, of which I am neither.
I think it would be this two personally.
Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. - Confucius
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V
With all of the time I have, I am an insult to the dead.
In context, the person is saying they feel like they are wasting their life and that innumerable people in the past would've killed to have the kind of free time or life they have.
It reminds me to be grateful for both the time I have alive and the quality of that time.
I find it extremely motivating in pursuing my various personal pursuits. I should seem like a Renaissance master to the people of the past and anything less is insulting.
"Given enough time, Hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where its going."
No one is ever on their deathbed wishing they had worked more.
(And quotes of that ilk). It’s genuinely something that informs the structure of every day for me.
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
As one door closes, another opens on the shit-chute to hell