Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[OmCheeto]

Yup! :thumbs:



Ваш товарищ прав.

Not only did he **** with people's heads, he also imploded his own... hmm, I wonder if there's some "Hillbilly logic" going on here... Nietzsche lived to be 55, Russell lived to 97...

"Evil kills you before you know it." ― Avocado on the run (in Mexico:D)​

I struggled with the translation this morning: "Ваш(you?) товарищ(speak -1sp говорить?) прав(truth)"

But of course, I plugged the words in, and found the meaning.

I made the mistake of bringing up the topic, again, today...

My Russian friend crushed me.

It made me smile.

 

[DevilsAvocado]

I struggled with the translation this morning:

I'm sorry Om...

Apparently GoogleDOTcom has its own internal logic...

If you translate Ваш товарищ прав. with the dot, it works = "Your friend is right."

Remove the dot and things get hilarious = "Your fellow human"

How weird is that? Has Putin redefined the language, or is Google buggy?

 

[lisab]

Some of these are well-known (and have been posted here before), but taken together they are quite nice.

From CSM:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Maki.../11-quotes-from-difference-makers/Fred-Rogers

1. Fred Rogers
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”

2. Leonardo da Vinci
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.”

3. Anne Frank
“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”

4. Mother Teresa
“We can do no great things – only small things with great love.”

5. Margaret Mead
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”

6. Robert F. Kennedy
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

7. Mahatma Gandhi
“We must become the change we want to see in the world.”

8. Charles Dickens
“Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.”

9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

10. William James
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

11. Edward Everett Hale
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

 

[lendav_rott]

I'm sorry Om...

Apparently GoogleDOTcom has its own internal logic...

If you translate Ваш товарищ прав. with the dot, it works = "Your friend is right."

Remove the dot and things get hilarious = "Your fellow human"

How weird is that? Has Putin redefined the language, or is Google buggy?

Graaaah, stop using google translator :s That's not how you say it :(
Tovarish means "young man" - between pals it's like "comrade".
The Russian language works fine, those online translators are idiots unfortunately :(When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony

 

[OmCheeto]

Graaaah, stop using google translator :s That's not how you say it :(
Tovarish means "young man" - between pals it's like "comrade".
The Russian language works fine, those online translators are idiots unfortunately :(


When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony

pfft! It's been 30 years since I've studied Russian at university. And I don't have time to re-learn it. I'm old and have more important things to do.

I should though have remembered that "Ваш" meant "your" vs "you", as the entire class found it very amusing that saying "your car" in Russian sounded very much like "wash machine" in English.
"ваш машина" is roughly pronounced "vawsh masheena"



Aside from my Om-Ma-Ni-Padme-Hum prayer banner, the following is the only other written saying, framed on my living room wall, in old gothic script.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark
near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time
like tears in rain.​

It reminded me a bit of my life, compared to most people I knew. And being quite young when I printed it up, I intentionally left off the last line.

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ps. I'm kind of glad I missed the opportunity to get tickets for Burning Man this year. I had this How you will get hurt at Burning Man infographic up at work on one of my PC's as the background. I may have a lust for life, but not really a death wish.

 

[lisab]

ps. I'm kind of glad I missed the opportunity to get tickets for Burning Man this year. I had this How you will get hurt at Burning Man infographic up at work on one of my PC's as the background. I may have a lust for life, but not really a death wish.

Toto, we aren't [STRIKE]in Kansas[/STRIKE] at OCF anymore!

 

[lisab]

If I ever start going blind, I'm not going to tell the government. I'll feel even more badass being illegally blind.

- From elsewhere on the inner webs.

 

[jobyts]

"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't" – Robert Benchley

 

[Nugatory]

"If you ever find yourself looking at the second significant digit of the tensile strength... You've already made a mistake"

 

[jobyts]

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. If you can enjoy Saturdays and Sundays without looking at stock prices, give it a try on weekdays. - Warren Buffett

 

[Psinter]

The wolf will always be the bad if we always listen to the Little Red Riding Hood.

Spoiler

I have no idea who said that so no credits. Google throws nothing either. I suppose it was written in another language and translated.

 

[sankalpmittal]

Good heart is as pristine as the saintly spot like sacristy.

--By me...

 

[Enigman]

Gaussian threw this jewel up -

EVANS BOLDLY PUT 50 ATM. OF ETHYLENE IN A CELL WITH 25 ATM. OF OXYGEN.
THE APPARATUS SUBSEQUENTLY BLEW UP, BUT LUCKILY NOT BEFORE HE
OBTAINED THE SPECTRA SHOWN IN FIGURE 8.

A.J.MERER AND R.S.MULLIKEN, CHEM.REV. 69, 645 (1969)

 

[Evo]

Where the H E double toothpicks have you been?

 

[phion]

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

 

[lisab]

E-man! Nice to see you again!

--lisab

 

[OmCheeto]

Explosions are fun.

He ended the paper with some research he had performed where he was able to take a 3.5hp engine, modify it somehow, and generate ~45 hp, at which point it blew up.

(ref)

 

[1MileCrash]

"I saw that all the things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them"

Spinoza

 

[jobyts]

"The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” - The New York Times, 1939.

 

[OmCheeto]

The porcupine is a peaceful animal, yet, God still thought it necessary to give him quills...

Found in a signature by someone by the name of AKmud, whilst looking for a squaw candy recipe.

 

[AlephZero]

It can be difficult to realize that we are constantly accelerating toward the center of the Earth when we are standing still.

Maybe the person who just posted that in another thread on PF should remain anonymous.

 

[OmCheeto]

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I shall not share his quip about California, as it was just too funny.

 

[Lisa!]

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.” – Voltaire

 

[Enigman]

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[lisab]

A long but very nice quote, E-man .

 

[Enigman]

http://medias.gifboom.com/medias/t_db69ae73062f4a0888aa93785a8659cf.jpg

 

[epenguin]

From another member of the acting profession just deceased:

“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”

Zohra Sehgal

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4173333.ece

 

[Darryl]

Wang Cares...

 

[Enigman]

One for a giggle...

One for the feels...

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[Astronuc]

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Gandhi

http://www.gandhianpeace.com/quotes.html

 

[nuuskur]

"All cruelty springs from weakness" by Seneca.

 

[Charmar]

The wolf will always be labeled as bad if little red riding hoods account is the only one entertained.

 

[1MileCrash]

"All cruelty springs from weakness" by Seneca.

I think I posted this one a few pages ago, it's a great quote. :)
Since I'm here, I'll share another one by Seneca.

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

 

[OmCheeto]

You can use logic to attack your opponent, but if you get people laughing at them, you win.​

--- Steve Marmel*

[edit]*A gauzy, probably incorrect recollection of what my Journalism advisor at the University of Wisconsin once told me

 

[Psinter]

Always stay positive and never tell yourself that this is the last time.

 

[flinkpopper]

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
-Kurt Cobain

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss

 

[Evo]

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".

Maya Angelou

 

[Enigman]

F__k literature.
-Ernest Hemingway to Ezra Pound.
Selected Letters 1917–1961

 

[epenguin]

F__k literature.
-Ernest Hemingway to Ezra Pound.
Selected Letters 1917–1961

Probably the unwittyest of the dictae of this thread and wasn't he a bit of a poseur and self-image fabricator himself?

 

[Enigman]

Probably the unwittyest of the dictae of this thread and wasn't he a bit of a poseur and self-image fabricator himself?

Context:

Bill [Bird] is getting out my book [In Our Time*], it was promised by bindery 3 weeks ago--different dates have been set since. After awaiting various set dates by the binder I have lost the fine thrill enjoyed by Benj. Franklin when entering Philadelphia with a roll under each arm. F__k Literature.

I am writing some damn good stories. [...]

*First collection of short stories he published.

He's slowly losing his momentum and is disillusioned with the modern publishing industry. The exclamation is an angry criticism of the same in favour of the simplistic process in the previous century that was enjoyed by Ben Franklin. Ezra Pound was a mentor of sorts to Hemingway.
The quote on the other hand is fun to throw at English majors who don't know the context.

Also, you could use this : http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

_{Though, I am one to talk this post itself lights up like a rainbow}

 

[epenguin]

Aha, so the context is not uninfluential in constituting a considerable makes a difference.
Sylistically that app can help write like Orwell, Ian Fleming, Hemingway.
I think I and most of us can, at least write dry compressed scientific prose when needed.
I read a critique recently that said Orwell's stripped-down minimalism was itself very artificial, an affectation, like inverted snobbery, which rather spoilt him for me. And whatever was supposed to be most admirable I have to say that without being told to, the stylist I most enjoyed reading is Nabokov.

 

[Lisa!]

"The Secretary General of the UN has the easiest job in the world, he just needs to deplore."

 

[OmCheeto]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

 

[Psinter]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

Great! But on the other side of the coin:

People always manage to fall into panic when a terrible outcome is put into logical words and explained to them.

I lived that with my own skin and I did fall into panic like an idiot. I was totally fooled.

 

[Rubidium_71]

"I don't want to believe, I want to know." - Carl Sagan

"Ouch! I've been shot!" - JFK ;)

 

[Psinter]

Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

Even if it's fiction I can relate. After being thrown into an abyss of despair I desperately struggled to get out of it. Accepting "help" (note the quotes) from people who were clearly the very enemies who threw me into the abyss, but I was in so much despair that I was blind to it.