Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them.

- Ishiro Honda

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world

- Gandalf, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

- President John F. Kennedy

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

- Bilbo Baggins, Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter One

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.

- Gary Provost

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

- GK Chesterson

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

If you wanna thrive you gotta strive.

- Eternal Aviator

Wait, you mean you want to be sane? I'm perfectly happy being a raving lunatic weirdo.

- unparchedbutter, http://www.fimfiction.net/group/200615/anti-depression-ponies/thread/189761/what-keeps-you-happy-and-sane

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I recognize that the council has made a decision...but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.

- Nick Fury

WHEN YOUR DREAMS GO UP YOUR PANTS WILL FOLLOW

- A church sign that I saw everyday on my way home from school my sophomore year

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive. But it is one of the lessons of fairy-stories (if we can speak of the lessons of things that do not lecture) that on callow, lumpish, and selfish youth peril, sorrow, and the shadow of death can bestow dignity, and even sometimes wisdom.

- JRR Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, "On Fairy-Stories"

:crystal_ball:When life gives you rice, you make rice.:crystal_ball:

- Gravebot(TGD group chat on Discord, on thread #botfuckery)

But hostess fruit pies are op in the marvel universe!

- Dyslexic foal, this thread

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.

- Paul Bäumer, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

–Anton Chekhov

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.

- Ray Bradbury

Fuck, I missed something big.(again)

I came here for a giggle and instead got squished by tons of heavy shit.

Better paranoid than ignorant.

Russia wants to be the "third Rome" again.

I live in my state's equivalent of the Elephant Graveyard.

Man, I can't wait to start playing Dark Souls!

We say "soggy" weirdly.

Forgiving other people isn't hard. Forgiving yourself-that's a challenge.

It looks a little fragile to squeeze. It might explode marina sauce all over if you do that.

You need to head over to the Wisconsin State Fair. We'll fatten you up with cream puffs and deep-fried Snickers.