[Pool Boy]

So, I really enjoy inspiration quotes and such. These can be a gif or blockquote text, but if you find something that just makes you go 'that's a really good quote', shove it here for everyone to enjoy!

“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow. Saying ‘yes’ leads to knowledge. ‘Yes’ is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
— Stephen Colbert

[katya]

"Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."
- G. K. Chesterton

[darth vader]

"A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it."
- catherynne m. valente

[KINGKYU]

' At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. '
- Neitzsche

[darth vader]

SPEAKING OF NIETZSCHE

"When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible — such descent I call beauty. And there is nobody from whom I want beauty as much as from you who are powerful: let your kindness be your final self-conquest. Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

[KINGKYU]

^^ ; i hate to admit it, but I love Nietzsche.

' What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-- and immediately forgot we have done so. '
- Nietzsche

[Pool Boy]

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn--pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics--why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that, you can start again on mathematics until it is time again to learn to plough."

--T.H. White, 'The Once and Future King'

[phosphorus]

"There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge, that is curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others, that is vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve, that is love."

- Bernard of Clairvaux

[KANE ♅]

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are often the ones who do."

-Steve Jobs

[nate]

"The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world. No, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before.

He doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him. He does the thing he ought not to do and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot."- Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain AKA Smartest White Dude To Live.

"There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."- Enrico Fermi AKA Smarter Than You.

"Lot o' stupid folks in this world, son. Lot 'o ugly-minded idiots mired in bloodlust. Most people'd rather see two men kill each other than just about anything else. You ever wanna see true human nature? Watch a crowd light up when a fight breaks out. If ya never remember one thing yer old man taught ya, remember this: People don't wanna see other people happy."-Fear Agent AKA One Awesome and Hella Depressing Sci-Fi Comic Book.

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[KANE ♅]

"All the strength you need is right there inside you. There will be no end to your success if you remeber that determination, not destiny, makes all the difference in life. In all matters of consequence never, never, never give up."

I don't know who it's by
I suck ;;

[HIMA]

❝I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done.❞

- Henry Rollins

❝My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.❞

- Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point

❝There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want to know, a crying that cannot be diluted by a brave deed or a kind word, but only by someone holding you as your shoulders shake and your tears run down your face.❞

- Lemony Snicket

❝Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.❞

- Vladimir Nabokov

❝The cat yawned slowly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. “Cats don’t have names,” it said.

“No?” said Coraline.

“No,” said the cat. “Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”❞

- Neil Gaiman, Coraline

[BIG FUCKBOI GAMBINO]

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
-- Sun Tzu

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
-- Zhuangzi

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
-- Zhuangzi

"SO SOPHISTICATED,"
Rick Ross; Rozay.

[jupi]

The bold is obviously the poet and the italicized is where the quote came from if you're interested. c: Most of these are my tattoo ideas.

"Fear is only a verb if you let it be." - Andrea Gibson, I Do.

"Doctor,
our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there.
It's that we ignore the ones who are." - Andrea Gibson, When The Bough Breaks

"Wake me, wake me when the American dream is over." - Andrea Gibson. When The Bough Breaks

"Love isn’t always magic
but if I offered my life to the magician
if I told her to cut me in half
So tonight I could come to you whole
and ask for you back
would you listen?" - Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You

"A doctor once told me I feel too much.
I said, "So does God that's why you can see the Grand Canyon from the moon."" - Andrea Gibson, Jellyfish

"Whoever I am
Whoever I become
Love me, love me, love me." - Andrea Gibson, Andrew

"Who ever taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass?" - Andrea Gibson, Asking Too Much

"Every non-believer believes in something." - Lacy Roop, Gender is a Universe

"Before I met you, I used to want to lock myself in a vault just to feel precious, but now with every kiss of hello and goodbye. I feel a self worth no banker and tally." - Shane Koyczan, Apology

"This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine." - Shane Koyczan, This is my Voice

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"One can never trust what they hear on the Internet."
- Abraham Lincoln