The compilation of most popular quotes among reddit users when they were asked a question about most mindblowing quotes that they wish everybody have heard. This is the list
1. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
3. “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell
4. “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” – Neil Gaiman
5. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
6. “Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” - Abraham Lincoln
7.“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society”-Jiddu Krishnamurti
8.“You have to remind yourself of the big picture. We are specs of dust riding on a mote, hurtling through a vacuum so vast it’s incomprehensible. Right now, a star several magnitudes the size of our own is exploding in a flash of light visible across galaxies. In another moment an entire species will go extinct because someone stepped on the last survivor. In the next few decades you will meet tens of thousands of new people, any of them could end up being your best friends… some may become your bitter rivals. All of them will die a few decades later. And so will you. A few decades more and no one will remember any of it. In a few thousand years there may be no living memory of humanity, let alone the fool you made of yourself in front of that cute barista.”-by redditor- yosemighty_sam
9.“We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions” -Ian Percy
10. Supporter: “You’re sure to get the vote of every thinking man!”
Adlai Stevenson: “Thank you, but I need a majority to win”
That was during the 1952 or 1956 presidential campaign.
Bonus : ( counterpoint of nr4:) )“The world is too big for love to be real. There are too many people in the world to ever know, beyond everything, that you are with the right person. That your heart is as swollen as it can be. Think of all the people in China. It is unlikely anyone will ever meet all of them. How can we know for certain, that trapped inside a foreign language and thumping in a foreign heart there isn’t a love that is meant for us. The infinite possibility of existence, its limitless potential, is the proof that we need that love is nothing more than an imagination, a human folly, friendship swollen with self-importance, a final retreat from the storm of possibility. The love of our life could so easily have been someone else. It is random and accidental, haphazard and unsystematic. That which we feel for one person, clinging on to the delusion of destiny, could so easily be felt for a million people should the timing and the meetings and the mutual readiness have coalesced at some other time in some other place. Should someone else have accepted us or rejected us then everything would have been different. And once we know this, we know that all love is a lie. Not honesty but deception. Not heroism but cowardice. An unspoken agreement of mutual consolidation and compromise, a shield from possibility and a bed in which to sleep, nothing more than that. But I do still miss her.” – Daniel Kitson
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