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So first thing I'm posting since I'm back might as well start a thread where you can put quotes that could inspire someone else.
I'll start with this one from Optimus Prime: "There are mysteries to the universe we were never meant to solve, but who we are and why we are here are not among them. Those answers we carry inside."

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Source of 2nd quote

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. nietzsche

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new" - Socrates

Confucius — 'He who who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right'

A ship in a port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

"While anything worth doing is worth doing well, it follows that anything worth doing well is worth being paid well to do." -- Fnord, the Metasyntactic Variable

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" -- Douglas Adams

"CHRISTIAN, n. (1) One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. (2) One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin." -- Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil's Dictionary"

"RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." -- Ambrose Bierce, in "The Devil's Dictionary"

out of context on purpose:

"the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. it has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. it is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also...we degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." -- Sir Richard Francis Burton, British explorer & orientalist (1821 - 1890)

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
" -- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999, US physicist (1933 - )

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one." -- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, then you probably have a very easy job. The kind that robots will be doing soon." -- Anonymous