Optimistic Quotes

I’m offering my fave LBJ quotation as it applies to many situations.
We are the negro now. Twitter troons are the white trash.
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With every oppressive act, the revolution grows.

Reality is the greatest shitlord of them all.

An era of disunion and strife brings with it heroes and legends

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”

Every institution is compromised. What needs to be done to fix this is not electable. This is a multi-generational struggle. You're in it for the long haul. Embrace it.

"Call on God, but row AWAY from the rocks." - Hunter S. Thompson
 
This is a whole poem but it's also GOAT so I'm posting Dylan Thomas' entire work.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
 
  • “When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don’t really care about them.”
  • “I’m a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women and breakfast food.”
  • “I regret nothing. The end.”
  • “There are three acceptable haircuts: high and tight, crew cut, buzz cut.”
  • “On my deathbed, my final wish is to have my ex-wives rush to my side so I can use my dying breath to tell them both to go to hell one last time.”
  • "When I walked in this morning and saw that the flag was half-mast, I thought ‘All right, another bureaucrat ate it!'"
  • “There is only one bad word: taxes.”
  • “I would rather bleed out than sit here and talk about my feelings for 10 minutes.”
  • “Give 100 percent. One-hundred-and-ten percent is impossible. Only idiots recommend that.”
  • “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.”
  • “Keep your tears in your eyes—where they belong.”
  • “You had me at ‘Meat Tornado.’”
  • “America: The only country that matters. If you want to experience other ‘cultures,’ use an atlas or a ham radio.”
    - Ron Swanson (Parks and Rec, various writers)
 
"when others give up with clenched fist, we are ready for the worst" -unnamed uncle
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom" -George Patton
“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.” - Bonaparte Napoleon
" If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice" -Titus Platus

Victory for the Farms ought be only word from our mouths Janny Delenda Est
 
There's no real way of coping when your parachute won't open.
You're falling down.
You're going down.
You fell, then you died.
Maybe someone cried.
But not your one-time bride.
 
What's reality? I don't know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, "That bird has no idea what he's looking at." And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can't really panic, he just does the best he can. Is he able to live in a world where he's so ignorant? Well, he doesn't really have a choice. The bird is okay even though he doesn't understand the world. You're that bird looking at the monitor, and you're thinking to yourself, I can figure this out. Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that's the best you can do.
 
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