Ask Lemmy

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

"Let go, or be dragged."

It's simple, yet so meaningful.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Used this against my controlling mother, who liked to lay BS at my feet and make me think it was my responsibility to fix. When it was HER that caused the whole thing. The look on her face when I hit her with that phrase and just turned around and left was priceless.

There a LOT of things that are just flat not your problem, even if someone else tries to make it yours.

You won't know if you don't ask.

People fear rejection or embarrassment for asking other people questions but once you realize that it's the most efficient way to navigate life it really helps. Saves you time and energy. Often saves you emotional energy as well in the long run.

If you like someone just ask them.

If you want to know where someone got something or learned a skill just ask them.

Curiosity is important and I feel so many people are so socially anxious that they will just try and Google and Google as opposed to entering into a simple verbal exchange with a stranger or something.

What you do when you don't have to, makes you who you are.

Choose your rut carefully.

The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.

"If it weren't for my horse, I would've never spent that year in college."

I don't know what it means, but it has changed my life.

I was going to post something cheeky like “Fuck here we go again”, noped out, pressed backspace and then this…

Making fun of the weak (poor, minorities, etc) is easy because they can't fight back, that's why the best comedy is the one that upsets the powerful.

"Freedom is not a goal, but a tool".

-Reiraku (Downfall) By Inio Asano

It a saying from Ubuntu (the philosophy not the operating system) “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” in English it’s “I am because you are” It’s a simple and concrete way of saying how we’re not judged by how we treat others but we are who we are through our interactions with others.

Honestly I’ve only browsed through a bit of philosophy and I’m sure I missing a heap but it really struck me.

Experience is a lantern lightning only it's carrier

Never do anything you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

Seek to understand, then be understood.

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it."

If it takes only two minutes, do it right away.

Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism—and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in faith and in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong—and lucky—he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death—however mutable man may be able to make them—our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

--Stanley Kubrick, responding to the question "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living?" in a 1968 Playboy interview.

"Assume that everyone else just wants to be happy too"

• I’ve forgotten who said or wrote this

Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind