Some people look to religion or well - thought - out system of ethics when select the rule to live their life by — and some mass are more comfortable relating to protrude acculturation . skill fable and fantasy flick provide plenty of wise mentors , who separate the heroes exactly what they needed to live .
So if you ’re looking for some insight into how to live your life , you could do way worse than sayings from scifi and fantasy movies . Here are 10 pieces of science fiction wisdom that have steer me through the years .
10 . “ Fear is the mind Orcinus orca . ”
Ah , Dune — the interminable and near - impenetrable serial publication that took a look at religious and political struggle across planets and generations . It includes many philosophic screed , the most illustrious of which goes like this : “ I must not fear . Fear is the judgment - Orcinus orca . reverence is the little - death that brings full obliteration . I will face my concern . I will permit it to pass over me and through me . And when it has gone by I will work the inner centre to see its path . Where the care has go there will be nothing . Only I will persist . ” Paul Atreides enumerate this when a robotic blade was hunting him through his bedroom . I by and large do it under deadline . Sometimes you just take to feel badass instead of psychoneurotic . Of naturally , when I keep feeling freak out out , fear go and ego - loathing remains .
9 . “ sprightliness is botheration . Anyone who says other than is selling something . ”
This is a nice bang of cynicism from the otherwise sweet romantic Princess Bride movie . ( This is funny because the leger interlingual rendition is absolutely stuffed with cynical lines and pessimistic points of view . ) It ’s also a skilful citation to force your way through a nasty piece of work - out . What does it matter if your lungs burn and your calf are knotting up ? Life is pain ! Push through it ! Anyone who told you it should be easy is a fool ! Listen to the Dread Pirate Westley !
8 . “ Never give up and undecomposed luck will feel you . ”
Well , we ca n’t plunge down a hole of cynicism all the clip — specially when we ’ve watch The NeverEnding Story at an early age . When a big hairy Draco say good luck will find you , and then helps a skinny footling phantasy - reader - nerd terrify his bullies , and then fell him off to a wizard land , sometimes even the stoniest heart has to melt . And “ Face your pain and fear , ” is n’t the form of advice you want to hear all the time . Sometimes you just need something prescribed to get through the twenty-four hours . This portmanteau of admiration for perseverance and the promise of better fortune is an first-class combination .
7 . “ If someone asks if you are a god , you say , ‘ yes ! ' ”
Winston knows best in Ghostbusters . Yes , you do n’t always know what you ’re get into . Yes , sometimes there are result for that . But sometimes it ’s best just to tout your fashion through things . Can you depend upon a sawhorse in summertime encampment if someone asks you to take a private slip ? Yes ! Can you get into a quaint Italian townsfolk at nightfall and regain a rented room , possibly from a guy who catch one’s breath like Don Corleone at the end of The Godfather ? Yes ! Are you sure you may make a living as a writer ? Yes ! Might as well sound confident .
6 . “ It takes a gravid deal of braveness to stand up to your enemies , but a great deal more to stand up to your protagonist . ”
Sometimes movies off on literal pieces of wisdom , and Dumbledore , in the first Harry Potter picture , has his moment here . People are supposed to be comfortable around their friends , and it ’s mean to be easier to lecture to them , which is why when there ’s a disagreement with a booster or family phallus , some maddening friend or advice editorialist will always say , “ Well you should just talk to them , ” like it never occur to anyone to spill the beans about the things that bothered them . Actually , it ’s a lot harder to go up against your friends , who are part of your life , know your flaws as well , and whose public opinion you value , than it is to swear out some person on the street that you neither know nor care about . Sometimes the first pace to working something out is agnise that you ’re not being stupefied for thinking it ’s tough to do . This helps .
5 . “ A laugh can be a very powerful thing . Why , sometimes in life , it ’s the only weapon we have . ”
Roger Rabbit says this , in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? , the half - enliven chef-d’oeuvre that looks more naturalistic than any CGI to particular date , even if Jessica Rabbit still looks , to me , like a mutated strawberry popsicle . ( I bang . She ushered many a reader here into manhood . I do n’t judge . ) I do n’t acknowledge how often this is dependable , but I do it it ’s true . Hell , look at this article . I ’m not get through it with great with wisdom , encyclopedic noesis , and a keen ego - test . I ’m getting through it because I can laugh my ass off about how the various thing spouted by movie characters reverberate with me and with the citizenry around me .
4 . “ Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , for they are insidious and quick to anger . ”
And this is why I have never attempted to throw a pie at David Blaine ! Even when he did that ‘ pull a fast one on ’ that was just him hanging upside down for a stupid amount of meter . Thanks , Gandalf . You ’ve never manoeuver me unseasonable . Except that time you recommended Moria as a vacation spot .
3 . “ The Earth is evil . We do n’t ask to grieve for it . Nobody will miss it . ”
This is from Melancholia , and before anyone says anything — I do n’t specially think it ’s dependable . It could just be the most monumental case of morose grapes in film account , allege by a blue character facing the end of the populace . But on mean solar day when life history imbibe , it really takes the pressure off . Sometimes , when you ca n’t make the best of thing , and do n’t feel like things are going to improve , and it seems like everywhere around you is misery and horror , it can help to just look out and say , “ This all sucks to the degree where nothing has any time value whatsoever , so it does n’t matter much if defective thing happen to me in special , or everyone in cosmopolitan . ” And on Day when you ’re feeling big , just admitting that and feeling it can help a great quite a little . You ’re not miss out on anything . Just be sad and finger fine about being sad , until one solar day you do n’t find sad any longer . And when you do n’t palpate pitiful anymore , and things seem to have inherent value again , then Melancholia can just go jump in a lake .
2 . “ To crush your enemies . . . ”
Conan the Barbarian – the original film version – gets asked what was best in living , he answer , “ To crush your enemy , see them driven before you , and to hear the mourning of their woman . ” I can give or take the “ women ” part . For me , it can be the lamentation of anyone connected to my foeman . And I do n’t mash citizenry . I do n’t even really have enemies . But , and this is significant , sometimes its good to be clear about things in your mind . The best retaliation is n’t ‘ living well . ’ The best attitude is n’t ‘ turn the other face . ’ The best thing is to see the people who gravel you crush into abject misery . Most of the sentence , you ca n’t have that . But always recall that that would be the ideal spot — so you have something to work toward .
1 . “ Adventure . . . excitation . . . A Jedi crave not these things . ”
Oh , like Yoda was n’t getting on this list . In The Empire Strikes Back he yield a piece of advice that ’s perfect because I can use it in any post . If my living is exciting , I can say , “ Nuts to the stupid Force , I need to have an risky venture . ” And when utterly nothing is going on except a bag of white potato vine chips and a bunch of Firefly magazine on youtube , I can say , “ I ’m not boring . I ’m just in Jedi breeding . ” Is there a better piece of advice than one that allows worldwide retroactive ego - justification ? I do n’t think so .
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