WISDOM

In my travels, I have heard many things said, strange and wonderful. This is where I collect all those words that help me get through life. Maybe they'll help you too.

(also, if you know any of the sources for the 'unknown' ones, please let me know!)

"We’re dragons, not caterpillars. We can do things differently if we choose to." -Sunny in Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom by Tui T. Sutherland

"It's not optimism, [...] It's faith. There's a reason we're here. What we do today is part of it, but there's more, too, and we have to survive to make it all happen" -Sunny in Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret by Tui T. Sutherland

"I think the wings of fire are inside all of us, inside every dragon." -Sunny in Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night by Tui T. Sutherland

"Did Snowfall ever actually sleep? Or did her brain just slide a little underwater, where the worries were blurrier and NightWings stalked around in the dark trying to kill her. Did it count as sleeping when she woke up more tired than she’d been before? Could she even call it waking up, when it felt more as though all her worries suddenly became so pressing that her eyes flew open? The arrival of dawn only seemed to shove her from a drifting haze of nebulous problems straight into a blistering ice storm of them." -Snowfall in Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift by Tui T. Sutherland

"And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow / with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go! / Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain / and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again!" -The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rodgers

"I have a tendency, I know to kind of vacillate between "it's so over" and "we're so back". And right now, it kinda feels like it's so over ... But maybe soon we'll be so back." -Adam Chase in Jet Lag: The Game S12E6

"That was efficient." -Sam Denby in Jet Lag: The Game S5E8 after bungee jumping

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." -JFK

"You can simply close your eyes and rotate a cow in your mind. It's free and the cops can't stop you." -paraphrased from @AynRandy on Twitter

"But holy shit, here comes that fin!" -JAWS! by Lemon Demon (I know it from the WoF MAP lol)

"If life seems jolly rotten / there's something you've forgotten / and that's to laugh and smile / and dance and sing. / When you're feeling in the dumps / don't be silly, chumps / just purse your lips and whistle / that's the thing!" -Bright Side of Life from Monty Python

"We better hope there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth." -The Galaxy Song from Monty Python

"'you'd never survive a cod lobby' ok, you wouldn't survive a discord server full of gay furries" -@elmur on Twitter

"Do you tihnk ... God stays in heaven because He, too, lives in fear of his creations?" -Romero in Spy Kids 2

"Spy's only as good as her gadgets." -Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids 2

"Direct of the OSS office. Big." -Donnagon Giggles in Spy Kids 2

"I am not excluded from "fuck 'em" when relevant." -netherworldpost on tumblr

"Well ... it looks like today's going to be longer than usual." -Stellaris: Federations trailer

"The galaxy is vast and full of wonders." -attested Stellaris tagline

"I never dreamed that I could do this / Never felt like I was worth a damn / But hey, I'm sort of getting through this? / I mean wha! / I mean, look at where I am! / It's one foot forward at a time / dust off all that grit and grime! / We still got a lot left to do / 'Cause people are counting on us, and I'm counting on you." -Percy Jackson in Drive from The Lightning Thief Musical

"Hope rises. Discontent falls." -Frostpunk

"The city must survive." -Frostpunk

"THE COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND." -PARANOIA

"HAPPINESS IS MANDATORY." -PARANOIA

"Never give up. Never surrender." -Galaxy Quest

"Righty-tighty, lefty CRAM IT IN THERE!!" -Principal Perry in Lab Rats: No Going Back

"I like to split the world up into my problems, and other people's problems, and this seems to fall ... squarely in the latter!" -Leo Dooley in Lab Rats

"The latest in technology, powered by a natural intelligence engine ... MY BRAIN." -Captain Disillusion in Escherian Stairwell Deconstruction.

"Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus." -@AlexBlechman on Twitter

"Bigger idiots than you have done it." -unknown

"'The world isn't kind' NOT YET IT ISN'T" -unknown

"Damn this shit sucks. It's a good thing that I'm indominable." -unknown

"BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES!" -Tom Scott

"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!" -Ms. Frizzle

"Freakin' out, breathe it out." -The Kid in Kid Cosmic

"Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?" -Discord in My Little Pony S2E1

"The city will teach you hard lessons. Don't let them make less of you." -Shivonne in Battle Dragons by Alex London

"One day, I woke up, got sent right to work scrubbing all the piss and pus from the sick bay, and a few hours into it I realized that I hadn’t been thinking of my father at all … That’s how it works, I think. There’s nothing sudden. Nothing that makes the world all tarts and rainbows again. You just . . . get used to it. Day after day. You keep waking up, you keep living. The faces you think you’ll never forget in all your life—well, you do. Time scabs them over. The memories fade. You move on." -Zaria in Abandoned by SomaticDream

"It is not honour, ideology, country, or even family that makes a soldier charge into machine gun fire. It's their friends, charging beside them" -Princess Twilight Sparkle in Equestria at War (loading screen tip)

"It's not sexual if it's what you gotta do to survive." -unknown

"You gotta believe in something, so today I believed in you!" -Candace in Phineas and Ferb: Summer Belongs to You

"It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not / we've got eachother, and that's alright for love ... you live for the fight when that's all that you got!" -Livin' On A Prayer by Bon Jovi

"They tried to kill us, they failed, let's eat." -jewish joke

"Doing well isn't treason" -YUGOPNIK (I think?)

"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons" -me (well that got out of date ...)

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that if life." -Captain Jean-Luc Picard in an episode I haven't actually seen :(

Got any feedback? I'd love to hear it! Send it to [email protected]. I'm always happy to hear from folks, whether it's story discussion, accessibility/design issues, or you just wanna chat!

(though I might need to get a more formal system someday ...)