Optimistic Quotes

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If you reach a cul-de-sac, the world turns its back
This is your zone, it's like blackjack
He might get the ace or the top one
So organise your twos and threes into a run
And then you'll have fucked him, son
And for that, you'll be the better one

-The Streets 'Stay Positive'
 
"We're in a war, dammit! We're going to have to offend somebody!" - John Adams

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning." -Benjamin Franklin

"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"Prudence approaches, conscience accuses." -Immanuel Kant

"I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones

"The more comfort, the less courage there is." -Prince Aleksandr V. Suvorov

"No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." -Voltaire
 
"They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."

"People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say."

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"

all from The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis. great book.
 
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli,
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
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Faintly I'll go
To take this head on
Soon I'll come around
Lost and never found
Waiting for my words
Seen but never heard
Buried underground
But I'll keep coming

 
"Sometimes a person says something expressing a certain intention, but he does not stand by what he said. Dignity does not belong to such a person. Dignity belongs to the people, nation, and communities that stand true to their word and do not let the flag they have raised be brought down by a storm."
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

"Bahlul means wise and chief. It was the name of a famous companion of Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq [who] pretended to be insane in order to save himself from the responsibilities of judgeship offered him by Caliph Harun ar-Rashid. But, wise as he was, he took advantage of his supposed lunacy and always censured great people of his time (including the kings) for their short-comings."
-Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi

"Death is nothing compared to vindication."
-Roboute Guilliman
 
- And it is because you don't know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

- The fact of the matter is that ill fortune is better for men than good. When Fortune smiles, she is always false. But when she is inconstant and whimsical, she shows her true self. The first aspect of Fortune will deceive people, but the second is instructive. The first blinds while the second opens men’s eyes to how fragile the happiness of mortals really is. The man who enjoys good fortune is driven frantic, running this way and that and trying to maintain what he has. The other is steady and, if he learns from his experience, even wise. Good fortune can lead men astray, deceiving them about what to expect from life and how to think of themselves. When Fortune is unkind, she draws men back to an understanding of what the world is like, and who their friends are. Surely, in your time of trouble, you must have learned who were your real friends.


Both Boethius.

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“For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:38-39‬ ‭CPDV‬‬
 
“And Judas said: "Gird yourselves, and be sons of power, and be ready in the morning, so that you may fight against these nations that have assembled against us, so as to destroy us and our sacred things. For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see evils come to our nation and to the sacred places. Nevertheless, as it shall be willed in heaven, so let it be."”
‭‭1 Maccabees‬ ‭3:58-60‬ ‭CPDV‬‬
 
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