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Started my new job yesterday and fell asleep until after midnight and then dawdled around and so a double-post today. From this list.
I find this prompt just a little cheesy even though I am often moved by words. I guess I find it slightly embarrassing to imagine myself as being so grandiose as to have "words to live by." I think that in the past I wouldn't have had an issue with this. Back when Facebook had a "favorite quotes" section that was somewhat prominent, I went through a period where I had it full of quotes from TV shows that struck me as funny or inspiring. When I say that Doctor Who saved my life in some ways, it was the big sort of monologue speeches about standing up for the right thing that stirred my emotions back into a functional range that let me grit my teeth and keep going.
One of my favorite quotes from Doctor Who in recent times is: "Fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly; fear can make you kind."
I even put that on my graduation cap for grad school even though in almost immediate retrospect it made little sense as a graduation cap. It was more just that I didn't do anything to my first one and those words felt like armor to me, because the person I had to sit next to at my grad school graduation had really hurt me.
Anyway, recently (also on facebook during one of my very rare scrolls when I happen to look after sending something to one of my parents) I saw the profile of a girl I went to high school and part of university with. Apparently there's a little tagline you can put under your profile pic now? I don't remember the exact context, but i really liked this quote:
And I guess I would like to live that way.
I find this prompt just a little cheesy even though I am often moved by words. I guess I find it slightly embarrassing to imagine myself as being so grandiose as to have "words to live by." I think that in the past I wouldn't have had an issue with this. Back when Facebook had a "favorite quotes" section that was somewhat prominent, I went through a period where I had it full of quotes from TV shows that struck me as funny or inspiring. When I say that Doctor Who saved my life in some ways, it was the big sort of monologue speeches about standing up for the right thing that stirred my emotions back into a functional range that let me grit my teeth and keep going.
One of my favorite quotes from Doctor Who in recent times is: "Fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly; fear can make you kind."
I even put that on my graduation cap for grad school even though in almost immediate retrospect it made little sense as a graduation cap. It was more just that I didn't do anything to my first one and those words felt like armor to me, because the person I had to sit next to at my grad school graduation had really hurt me.
Anyway, recently (also on facebook during one of my very rare scrolls when I happen to look after sending something to one of my parents) I saw the profile of a girl I went to high school and part of university with. Apparently there's a little tagline you can put under your profile pic now? I don't remember the exact context, but i really liked this quote:
You'll never regret being kind.
And I guess I would like to live that way.
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