On my Google homepage I have a quote of the day box. There is always one funny quote and one serious one. These quotes are from people ranging from Ghandi to Seinfeld. I have always wondered, did these people come up with these life lessons just on the whim or did they carefully create and reword them ahead of time to be spoken later on? Did these people realize the significance of what they had said? Did the listeners hear it and think “Wow, profound advice, I better write that down”? Did the listener say who it was from or did he pretend it was his own advice? What steps did the listener or the speaker have to take for the quote to become known world wide? Will I ever stop asking rhetorical questions?

On a more forum related note, have any of you guys ever said something on the whim that you realized was actually somewhat profound? The hard thing about saying a good piece of advice is that all the good advice you can think to give… is already well known good advice. It’s hard to be original. I have always liked a quote my teacher told me “You only desire things you don’t own”. I thought it was original and profound. Then I later realized she just plagiarized “The grass is always greener on the other side”. Somehow this made the quote I used to live by seem less important and a bit more dull.  Oh well.

Anyway, I really randomly came up with one the other day. I was just trying out some new fonts and writting whatever words came to mind when I stopped and read the last sentance I wrote:

The time the people have failed us is the same time the people no longer care

It’s pretty versatile for being randomly thought up. I mean heck, if you want you can replace people with ‘yourself’ and find the truth about achieving or failing personal goals. “The times you fail are the times when you no longer care”

 Well, have any of you came up with your own proverb that could you could pass off as being a "real" one?

To die is to live.

Human perfection is measured by understanding one's flaws.

Most anything Kierkegaard works for me.

"Whats a Rachet and Clank? is that a PC game?"

And you want to be my latex salesman

Only The Insane Have Enough Strength To Prosper. Only Those That Prosper May Truly Judge What Is Sane

Off the top of my head I can only think of one phrase that I came up with...

"I'm dumb, but I'm not stupid."

I don't know where I came up with that one. This has to be something that has been said before, maybe it just popped out of my subconscious one day. Anyways, it's not anything profound, just something I say to people when we're goofing around.

Here's one I've always liked from Miyamoto.

"What if everything you see is more than what you see-the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things."

I'm not sure if that's it word-for-word, but you get gist of it.

Expect the unexpected