Life, don't talk to me about life...
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Hanlon's razor is basically my religion at this point. It's just a huge part of how I see and engage with the world.
“Ignorance is bliss.”
Keep moving forward
"you can stick your well-laid plan up your well-laid ass"
Been almost 30 years, what a dumb quote to come to mind so often. I never say it, haven't seen Die Hard 3 since the '90s, no idea why it's stuck so hard
"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.
Success leads to stagnation; stagnation leads to failure. ... Failure leads to maturity; maturity leads to success.
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"If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't fuck with them." A quote from my TI in basic from 85'.
In this world, the only thing we truly own is the body we shape everyday
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Confidence is everything.
"God thinks he's all that and a bag of chips." -David Bowie
We all hurt, we all need, we all cry, we all bleed.
One of my favorite reminders that everyone has personal struggles.
“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”
- Elliot
"Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation."
James Baldwin
if you assume you make an ass of u and me
There's only two things that matter in life: who you choose as your friends and where you stick your pecker.
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