What are some videos/quotes/songs/books/etc. that inspire you?
We spend a lot of time on this site arguing and butting heads. I thought it might be a good idea to take a moment to lighten the tension a little by sharing things that inspire us or just make us smile. You know, that warm and fuzzy hippy crap 
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I love this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/ And for some reason, the song People Like Us, by Kelly Clarkson, always makes me feel better :) 2
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"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." - Dudley Field Malone <--That is why I'm on CreateDebate “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw "Intelligence: Not because you think you know everything without questioning, but rather because you question everything you think you know" -- Unknown Author “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” - Unknown Author "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Unknown Author “Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” – Unknown Author "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened." - Unknown Author "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” - C. JoyBell C. 1
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"I just know there’s something dark in me and I hide it. I certainly don’t talk about it, but it’s there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he’s driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don’t fight him, I don’t want to. He’s all I’ve got. Nothing else could love me, not even… especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else… someone. It’s like the mask is slipping and things… people… who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me." — Dexter Chivalry never died but the gentleman in most men did. Being male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age but being a gentlemen is a matter of choice Too weird to live too rare to die - Hunter S Thompson Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride - Hunter S Thompson Fidelissmus Semper - Family Motto 1
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Oh, man! My list is going to be long lol. Videos: http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ Quotes: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” - Alan Watts “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” - Alan Watts “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” - Alan Watts “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” - Alan Watts “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” -Bill Hicks “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Songs: http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnwWlsMrwA http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJfybyVo 1
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Whenever I listen to this song and I'm feeling insecure it always makes me feel better. http://www.youtube.com/ Quotes: "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got"-Janis Joplin "Thousands of candles can be lit from one single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."-The Buddha Books: Joyful Path of Good fortune the complete Buddhist path to enlightenment- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. 1
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If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. - Johnny Depp just overall, johnny depp has been a big inspiration. |
