what's one sentence that changed the way you look at life?

[shadyreapers_]

mine is
what goes around comes around

 

[Lemmingwiser]

The headmaster pointed his finger angrily at me and said: "You know what your problem is? You don't know your place!"

Dutch schools are very anti-authoritarian. He immediately regretted his words. I saw it in his eyes. He went too far. He started trying to want to take back his words, or word his frustration more appropriately. I stopped him. I thanked him. In a blink of realization I recognized that yes, I don't know my place and yes it's giving me a lot of unnecessary difficulty. I still feel grateful for that lesson.

 

[YOU ARE]

"we wuz kangz an shieet"

 

[Mister Baranavichy]

At the back of my mind, I always have what, in my language, has always been to me the worst insult you can say to any man/woman:

The direct translation is essentially:
"Should've studied."

Never seen it used without a fight happening after, especially with the way it's said, because it's true, "don't complain now, you did nothing before, should've studied."

 

[Atomic Ant]

the axiom, "nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses" , can in fact not be observed by any of the senses.

 

[The Internet Dick]

One of the last lines from a little known, low-budget British black comedy called Beautiful People (1999):

Life can be so beautiful if just a few things go your way.

The line is spoken by a doctor who had been going through a personal hell of unwanted divorce, child custody issues, and agonizing personal doubts. He's saying it at the first birthday party of a child whose life he had saved.

I was going through a hell of my own at the time--with worse to come--and latched onto the hope it represented. It's always stuck with me.

EDIT: Added the word 'known' to 'little known'.

 

[Divine Power]

The ungodly are not so: But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: But the way of the ungodly shall perish. Psalms 1:4-6

 

[Chunky Salsa]

When I failed my A levels the first time, my mother patted me on the shoulder and said "There's a lot of room for mediocre people." in what I think was meant to be comforting. I think about that statement a lot whenever I don't 'feel' like doing something. I will then suddenly feel like doing it.

 

[Revolved]

When I was much, much younger, I came across an image online with the text "Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for everybody!". It stuck with me, and I gradually started moving away from being a total retard as I observed what was going on in my country. Today, my beliefs are very different than when I first read those words. There are people on this forum who weren't alive when I saw that picture/protomeme. Still think about it quite a bit. Never underestimate the power of a good meme. I'm grateful to have experienced the old internet before everything was gay.

 

[Meat Target]

"If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough."

 

[Señora Airi]

"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force". Matthew 11:12.

I love this verse because it tells one to take action, to become not like the unbelieving Israelites who were waiting around unbelieving, but be the Gentile who accepted the faith and did everything in their power to be in the Kingdom.

Or to put it more secularly - get off your ass and do things to help yourself.

 

[Pattern Juggler]

It's never so bad it couldn't be worse.

 

[sadbird]

"If you do drugs you go to Hell before you die" And it could never be more true because people on the streets are doomed to a painful existance with no end in sight and there's no way to really save them from it except death.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

"The only shit is in designated shitting streets."

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

From when lolcow Mersh had a mini-stroke while live-streaming.

 

[anliteralidiot]

"comparison is the killer of joy" and "the courage of retards is courage nonetheless"

 

[Saint Agustin]

"if you want safety, don't ask for more cops, ask for education instead".

Funny thing I saw that quote in a random subway and it stuck with me.

Also of course "The pickle man tricked me again" because it makes me smile everytime y remember it and the video.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

"It don't matter....none of this matters."

 

[Fek]

"What does it mean to 'love thy neighbor'?"

A question I posed to myself a good long while back now which led me on..quite a journey. No -ist, -isms, -ians, etc, required. Just pure honest intent.