For me, a few come to mind:

  • “You’re imagining everybody in this story way more attractive than they actually were.”

It was posted somewhere on one of those spicy subreddits under some affair threesome story. And it sort if clicked with me. Like look around, normal people on the street don’t all look like supermodels. And supermodels don’t lurk around in reddit comment sections. It really put things into perspective for me.

  • “Life isn’t short, it’s the longest thing you’ll ever do.”

It is a bit uplifting to realize that no matter if you have bad or good period in your life, it is only a short chapter contained in the longest time period possible for you to experience.

There were a few others that I probably can’t remember of the top of my head right now.

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    The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.

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    There’s a guy on Youtube by the name of Chris Boden. Slightly controversial figure but he seems to mean well. A video of his that seemed to be venting/reconciling himself included the phrase

    “So you wake up one morning in your impact crater and you start. Again.

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    the ironic thing about common sense is that it is not that common.

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    Actually this one and I just saw it on Lemmy too. As a life long Trek fan I have this quote in my head quite often.

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    Reminds me of bash.org RIP https://bash-org-archive.com/?top

    • “Where ever you go, there you are”
    • “We have just enough fuel to make it to the crash site”
    • “Ruh-Rouh”
    • “Deny, Deny, Deny - Until you believe!”
    • “A Rule without Enforcement is just wishful thinking”
    • “When life gives you lemons- BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD”
    • “Ignoring a alert is the same as normalizing alerts, if it’s important, don’t ignore it, if it’s not important don’t alert for it”
    • “Follow the money” - Gripping Hand I think
    • “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” - Knuth maybe
    • “Once you know something is possible, doing it becomes a exercise in persistence.”
    • “Science isn’t what other people say, its what YOU can observe”
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    “Silence deafens everything.” At first it seems counterintuitive, but being silent can “deafen” those around you (or society) to an issue or problem.

    And my friends dad commented on his wanderlust need : “It doesn’t matter where you travel to, you will never get away from yourself”

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    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    The whole poem by Dylan Thomas is fantastic but that line in particular often pops into my head during difficult times, like these.

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    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final.”
    – Rainer Maria Rilke

    This was used at the end of the movie Jojo Rabbit (one of my favorite movies of all time). I often remember this line when I feel like everything is going wrong, and it helps me hold on to hope.

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    "How active you are in middle-age determines how active you will be able to be in old age. And that applies to any given decade of one’s life.

    Meanwhile, on Lemmy, we got people whining about sore backs and knees once they turn 30.

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      Work with elderly. Use it or lose it.

      Amount of people who struggle to walk because they got in a wheelchair at some point is fucking high