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.

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “The best time to plant a tree is fifty years ago. The second best time is right now” - essentially don’t worry about what you could have done better, or what could have been, make now and the future as good as you can

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    “If you don’t fall off occasionally, you’re not trying hard enough” - originally told to me in the context of learning to windsurf (I still can’t windsurf), but applicable in a lot of areas. This doesn’t mean try to fall off, it means failure is a natural part of growth, not something to be shunned

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      1 year ago

      Good point. How else do you know if you’re doing it right unless you’ve done it wrong before