Quotes

A video in YouTube moved be so much that I had to write a quote about it. This quote is all our 'soul', not in the context of religion and the afterlife but rather our individuality. The YouTube video shares this idea that our actions should be governed by what we--- as an individual; want. If our life revolves around pleasing others and fitting into the confines and ethics of society, we lose ourselves.

Sand dunes are just as happy shifting and changing shape, as is the complacent man. We should look into ourselves what we actually want in life. The measure of who we are shouldn't be what metric society put on our shoulders. If we are looking to do something, we ask ourselves and see if the arguments towards actions really do come from us, and not from external force--- and if it does, we entertain our soul.

Don't be a sand dune and just live your days following the next set of rules. Find time to really think about what you like to do. Now with this said, I'm not telling everyone to quit their demanding and life draining jobs, because being trapped in a capitalist society is another topic for another day. But just here this, start that hobby; be unproductive for a day; live.

A lovely quote about knowing a person more in dark times other than in their most happiest. We really do forget that people also have troubles and problems, and by experiencing these with them we get to know them more.

When a person breaks down and is currently at his/her lowest and at most vulnerable. They showed their problems, and they demand an audience. The least that we can do is listen, the most we can do is help.

Could be loosely attributed to the Dunning Kruger Effect, but it takes a more sinister approach. How come does the non-informed be able to live their lives peacefully? Just going about their daily lives just managing to take care of themselves and happily strolling through their lifestyles...

Having watched too much YouTube documentary just about everything about corruption and lobbying, greed and the very bad side of abusing government + money to control everything I'll tell you this: Life is just not that fair when you step back and look at the events of the world as a whole.

And the knowledge will do nothing but haunt you forever, as in our case, an individual, we have no control over this. Worst yet, it might control you. It will prevent you from living your life because deep down you know this much knowledge and the dread will take over you.

This quote has been the first one I had hidden for days, as I am right now reading "The Diary of a Young Girl; Anne Frank", and her mindset amidst World War 2 whilst being Jewish... you might think she would be the most depressed alive kid on Earth--- but she, as I put it right now, the most charming kid I have ever read about.

People often misunderstood what 'freedom' is. In our current world, it is often thrown around when authorities or some opposed groups of people are trying to stop someone that is either doing an action that is objectively dumb, or doing something reasonable, the borders of which I do not want to discuss.

But my few cents on this is that is not a discussion of your freedom when the things you want to do will do harm to others. You are free to do things that will only affect you, and you better accept the criticisms or opposition when what you want to do will hurt others around you.

People often use the argument of freedom when they are doing childish things. Because that is what it exactly is, a child throwing fits, that is exactly what you are because someone tells you to stop acting so irresponsible and childish.

Greed is human nature, we all know that and I hope we all agree. But I think most people underestimate the lengths these high power people go to satisfy their bottomless greed, and it harms us so much and we don't even know it.

How can we even know at this point what news are covered up? What strings of information are complete lies and is just being used to push their current agenda.

The powerful control information, and it will always lean towards their goals. Remember when they said cleaned engine oil was good for you? Yeah, that's vegetable oil. No one bats an eye, and the beef lard now causes heart attacks.

We can go on and on about what information might be skewed. We can go political or economic. But I encourage everyone to sometimes look back, be skeptical about how the news portrays things.

Oh and yeah, when will we read about the jeepney phase out of the past, written as a modernization and an improvement to safety and convenience, and it's not just that individual jeepney operators are hard to control and they want to monopolize the transportation industry. And how our government officials are heavily invested in Chinese modern jeepney production. What a sad life.

I'm writing this right now with not a single solid idea of what we can talk about this quote. But I do know one thing, these lines are straight fire on their song "Gaddaar".

It is a song of protest, though disclaimers state that they want to remain neutral. Dislike towards the current political environment. And in their song, oh my....

All I'm saying is, try to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKjSCTxke8

Truths may not always be objective. Of course there are truths that are most definitely the 'truthiest' statements out there.

But there are also truths that are driven by their subjective value. This means that our understanding and interpretation of truth can change depending on the context and our personal perspectives.

So don't be shoving other's truths away for yours, all things are always viewed in each of our perspectives.

Coffee Talk is a game? Can I call it a game? More like a visual novel where you, a barista of a coffee shop, is an audience to the plethora of customers willing to share their stories on the cold countertop.

Our mind is a very special thing. It may create the most beautiful thoughts or most devilish ones. But do know that when our mind is clouded by doubts, troubles, or pain, there is a way out of it.

Dropped by Peleg when Ishmael said he wanted to be part of the crew to see the world. Its a subtle one, but you can make out the dots and connect this in our modern life. Wishing to be travel across the world to see it, but what would your current environment then be called?

This quote changed my perspective of what the 'world' is, and that it should be mine. My world, the people, the places, the community that is already around me.

What lays beyond that is not my world, but someone else's. And I would rather explore my world than that of a stranger. Call it copium for not being able to afford the travel expenses of Europe, America, or the bits inside Asia.

I am content with the world I am apart of today.

The book "The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse" is a gem I found grabbing coffee in my local area. A kid's perspective on the world sure is a shallow one. But his/her point of view stands to reason that we also look into life in its most simple.

Minus the awesome career you dream of, minus the wealth you wish to attain, look into yourself as a person that should be kind, and do everything you can to do so.

Expect more wonderful quotes from this book, this book paired my americano so well its convincing me to go back there again.

This is a heavy quote dropped by OG George Orwell in his book "Animal Farm". I will spare you the details and hail you this extreme summarization of mine: as the oppressive governing body of the farm have abused their power by changing their absolute laws, they scrapped the laws altogether and just have this as their one and only law. Bashing the reader in the face of their true intentions, that the pigs will always be on the top of the system and do as they desire as all other animals suffer.

The idea of all animals being equal is long gone as their hard work and achievements are pushed aside for the pig's own ideology and comfort.

A strong recommendation of a book for me. Not hard to read either.

The quote summarizes the main theme of the book by George Orwell. To think about the implications of this quote puts us in a deep thought of what history is and what it should and do. represent.

We always tell ourselves that history repeats itself, history is a reminder, history is a life lesson that we should apply to our everyday lives. But what happens if history is skewed?

Skewed to reflect someone's ideas, beliefs. Adjusted and modified to fit one's motives? And how about the people that should push against this modification?

The people must think by themselves and preserve history. I for one am not knowledgeable enough to tell history, let alone remember actual truths about it. But it makes sense that we should be aware enough of real history and preserve it.

How many revolutions or major historical events has happened? What is written about it? What is the chance that this article I'm reading right know skews the events to fit its narrative? How could I even know what I'm reading is real? Credibility of the platform?

With the control of media over most of what we read and hear, I do not know.

P.S. Most of the quotes that are being displayed here are just collections of what I've read. Going from Animal Farm to Nineteen Eighty-Four brings me into a rabbit hole of government control and dystopian futures. For the most part I'd like good hearted quotes, but alas I am still reading through these books for fun.

We should not depend on others to be kind to us, but we should practice self-compassion and self-care. Being kind to yourself can start now, no matter what your situation is or what you have done in the past.

You do not need to wait for someone else to approve of you or love you. You can love yourself and treat yourself with respect and dignity. Being kind to yourself can help you cope with stress, heal from pain, and grow as a person.

It can also make you more kind to others, because you will understand how they feel and what they need.

Is a person inherently good or bad? What drives a person to do bad more than good? Or a better argument is to look at it from the opposite side: What drives a person to do good?

People coin the terms: morals, self-control, instinct. As if all these things are imprinted to us right when we are born. I say no, this is a learned behavior. To govern oneself, as the quote say: to inhibit the shark in ourselves only then we call ourselves akin to angels.

Being good to others is an applied effort, a harder one in fact compared to if you just shove others away.