Words of Wisdom

[Ken]

I often times gain some powerful insight and inspiration from various media, but quite often from movies.
One that I relate to is from the movie "Joe Versus the Volcano". It goes something like this:
Almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. Only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement". I finally understand and relate to this. I estimate that most of my life is spent asleep. While asleep, there is little meaning to life. A very depressing state. Then for a moment, I awake. In those moments, I am in a state of constant total amazement. Now, If I could just figure out how to stay awake!

Another one is from the movie "House with a Clock in it's Walls" where it was stated that "Life is like riding a bicycle. To stay balanced, you must keep moving forward."
I find that very helpful when my life starts getting wobbly and out of control. I must try to reorient to find which way is forward and then proceed that way.

These have been very helpful to me.

Can you share any that you have found to be helpful to you?

 

[Cryptid]

Philosophy is nothing more than common sense with bigger words.

 

[Forest Cat]

Years ago I watched a movie called "Instinct". Anthony Hopkins plays the lead role. A man leaves society to live in a jungle. There wasn't one spesific quote in it that was special but the entire movie was a "word of wisdom" in a way. Made me think. It's about human nature and nature. Our dominion. It was actually helpful for me in a way.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I like these ones:

"Keep your side of the street clean", which means to me that I need to just worry about my own behavior and not anyone else's behavior.

"Example sets a genial ray,
Which men are apt to borrow.
So first improve yourself today
And then your friends tomorrow." - Author unknown

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us.
To talk about the rest of us." - Edward Wallis Hoch

"Not my pig. Not my farm." or "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." - I say this to help myself let go of things that aren't my problem.

"If you don't ask, then the answer is no." - Useful in so many situations. Someone says, "Do you think they'll let us do [something]?" and I answer, "If you don't ask, then the answer is no."

"Yet" - the best modifier to any problem. My son was freaking out about a math assignment and said, "I don't understand it!" and I said, "You don't understand it .... yet.", and then we worked on it. Teaching him to say "Yet" when faced with a problem has been a big help.