This is the only post I ever made on my old r/TheRedPill account (u/vermillion_Rx) when it was getting quarantined. Skip to the bolded text if you don't care about anecdote.
In my blue pill days in an incredibly low place in my life I looked up quotes every day for whatever emotion I was processing at the time, and would walk hours a day thinking about how the ideas might apply to my life, etc. In the absence of actual RP guidance, these were some good wakeups that helped me process the world and bestow insight.
Every now and then I reread these. RP is a journey that requires insight and perspective. And that's what many of these helped me with. I hope some of these resonate and help you achieve similar breakthroughs and mental clarity.
Building Power
“There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy, and its only reward is that it's easy”
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have"
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment”
“How soon 'not now' becomes never”
“Sometimes a step backward is a step in the right direction”
“Little by little one walks far”
“If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always had”
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
“Do what you fear most and it will be the death of fear itself”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today”
“The highest reward from improvement is not what one gets for it: it's what one becomes as a result of”
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity”
“The scars of others should teach us caution”
"For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”
“A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood”
“All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday”
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
“There are many shadows, but where there is a shadow there must be light”
“Be around the people you want to be like: because you will be like the people you are around”
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves"
Off-Topic
“You may have not gone where you intended to go but ended up where you intended to be”
“Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp; but which if you sit quietly, will alight upon you”
“The only bad thing about burning your bridges behind you is that the world is round"
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed”
“Insanity destroys reason, but not wit”
“The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long”
“All assumptions are dangerous, including this one”
“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face-to-face”
“The future influences the present just as much as the past”
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness”
“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience”
"Even the most elaborate buildings are made with the smallest, simplest pieces”
“Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world though eyes blurred by the mind”
“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be”
Rant/Venting
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past”
“Every man has his secret sorrows in which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad”
"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment"
“Jealousy is the fear of comparison”
“One's greatest successes often come after one's greatest disappointments”
“It's never too late to be who you might have been”
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking”
“Enjoy what you can; endure what you must”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine”
“A cat that walks across a hot stove will never walk across a stove again, even a cold one”
“Blunt words often have the sharpest edge”
“Much of human life is lost in waiting”
“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation”
“There is no pain so great as a memory of joy in present grief”
“Grief makes one hour ten”
“One of the hardest things in life is to have words you cannot utter”
Frame
“A leaky house can fool the sun, but it cannot fool the rain”
“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind; if encouraged, it cuts a channel in which all other thought is drained”
“There are two kinds of weakness; that which breaks, and that which bends”
“Character is much easier kept than recovered”
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow”
“There is no terror in a bang, only the anticipation of it”
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously”
“A smile is an inexpensive way to improve one's looks”
“Never take the antidote before the poison”
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren’t after you”
“Arrogance diminishes wisdom”
“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken”
“Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument”
“One minute of patience in a moment of anger will spare a day of sorrow”
“When it comes to words, it's not what you say, it’s what people hear”
“The first rule of focus: wherever you are, be there”
“No one can see their reflection in running water, it is only in still water that we can see”
“All temptations are found either in hope or fear”
Meta
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind"
"In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul”
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong”
Red Pill Example
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; skill is knowing how to do it; and virtue is doing it”
“A danger foreseen is half avoided”
“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything. One's last is to come to terms with everything”
“Many of the greatest achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working”
“A wise man will be the master of his mind, a fool will be its slave”
Blue Pill Example
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
“Education is what you get when you read the fine print, experience is what you get when you don't”
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way”
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet”
“Teach yourself, and you have a fool for a master”
“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread"
Culture
“Men may not get all that they pay for in this world; but they certainly must pay for all they get”
“One of the best ways to keep one's word, is not to give it”
“What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals”
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack”
“Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist”
“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his own thumbs on the scales”