I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

  • niktemadur@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    “Live on, survive, for the Earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.”

    Salman Rushdie, from The Ground Beneath Her Feet.

    A more recent one, meditation-related, short and simple and I have no idea who said it, I just happened to catch it a couple of years ago on a website-that-shall-not-be-named:

    “I am not my thoughts.”

    • bogus1@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Great quote for me from the OP. Thank you.
      This prompts me to adjust it to fit my needs: “I am my thoughts, so I better craft my thoughts in a better way.”

    • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have BPD. I remember someone telling something similar on reddit. “I am not my diagnosis.”