Are there any words of wisdom you’d like to pass along?
 

(This is the ME in the group sense. It is everyone who is reading this thread, it is anyone who googles and finds this thread. Me, is everyone and anyone.)

Are there any words of wisdom you’d like to pass along to me?

Don't sweat it, you'll fail. Failing is good, it's part of the process. It's because someone failed more than you that they excelled more than you. Give it a try, if you fail. Try again. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough to not fail, and then you can perfect it.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

There are no mind readers. Your chances of getting what you want are greatly increased when you can ask for it.

Relax. Don't worry so much.

never make eye contact while eating a banana...

Don't let the opinions of your peers and family stop you from doing that one thing that makes your life worth living.

Oh, and don't pick your friend's nose.

Always cut away from your soft parts.

Follow your dreams, but recognize that you might not be able to succeed at 'anything you want if you put your mind to it'...somewhere along the way you may have to compromise a little bit and pursue a lesser dream you have the aptitude to achieve.

Always carry a pack of breath mints. If you think your breath is less than fresh, have a mint. If someone's breath is less than fresh and the situation allows, have a mint for yourself and offer them one. If it's not an appropriate time to offer a breath mint or a stranger declines your offer, grin and bear it; if a friend declines a breath mint, offer again with a stern look on your face.

Never, under any circumstances, decline an offer of a breath mint.

If you tie 2 birds together even though they have 4 wings they can not fly.

When things get black, keep your head down and don't stop - you're just gonna have to trudge through it. On the other side laughter and your old self are waiting for you.

also, you will never be any good to anyone else until you are good to yourself. be selfish for the ones you love. they will love you for it. (this meaning psychologically, of course, not materially)

I had to give both of these pieces of advice to my oldest daughter recently.
She's doing better. :)

money can't buy happiness but somehow it's much more comfortable crying in a porsche than on a bicycle...

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Slim...
-Jim Croce

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Don't volunteer to make the Deviled-eggs for a big Christmas party, unless you're Suzy/Sean Homemaker. (there are not enough Deviled-eggs to satisfy the horde!)

You must learn to live happily with yourself before you can even think about partaking in a healthy relationship. You alone should never be held responsible for anyone else's happiness.

Don't eat the yellow snow......lol....

Thought this would be appropriate since the winter season has begun..

To continue the theme of the above post:

Don't drive so damn fast in the snow. It's better to arrive late than to not arrive at all.

Just breathe.

No matter how wound up, silly, & slightly feverish you're feeling:
Don't abuse the APF.*

* anonymous posting feature.

Don't hold back.

We are what we do. So do something. Right, wrong... make a decision and take action.

Never give up a second chance. Fate, good luck, favor of Allah... you need to go again.

Life is like an oxygen mask on a plane: take care of yourself first, then help others.

And, uh, don't be like this guy.

or this guy...

What my granny used to say: "What you can't do today, don't do tomorrow either."


Edit: Oops, sorry, worded it wrong. Hope it goes right now: "Whatever you can neglect to do today, don't do tomorrow either."

Never pass a bathroom.
Don't waste a hard-on.
Never trust a fart.

Learn the phrase "I did not participate nor do I condone it." Love it. Live it.

"When in doubt, throw it out!" Leftovers can be dangerous!!

This is second to: "Never Trust a Fart".

forgive your enemy, but remember the fucker's name...

Never buy cheap when it comes to towels, sheets and oven mitts.

live your dreams

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Cherie Carter-Scott

Unless you have a strong stomach, never youtube "earwax, boils, cysts, spider-bites or worms".

Keep your mind open to the many possibilities life has to offer.

It's never too late to find yourself.

Some odds can be beat.

There are many ways to succeed at something competitive. There is only one way that will give you a better chance to succeed - hard work. Working hard at something will not ensure victory, but it will give you the opportunity to compete.

And with that, place is simply a function of who else shows up that day.

To steal from Dr. Seuss:

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

the trials of miles, the miles of trials

Better yet, - If you don't have a lot of experience driving in snow, Don't do it without someone with experience helping you.

help a man when he is in trouble, and he will remember you when he is in trouble again...

Very true, but will he remember you when you are in trouble?

Sometimes, in order to have a good time, you have to be a good time.

If it feels good, do it.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

This is a new page. (Today is a new day.)

I heard something like this before,
-In order to have a good friend, you have to be a good friend.

Live below your means.

No person is intrinsically superior to another.

many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them...

Hmm, I know some people like that.

alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but neither does milk...

The fear of death does not prevent us from dying, but from living.

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If you have pop-up blockers on, you should occassionally check to see if you have any private messages because they may be, you know, important. Espeically if the person sending them did so about something you've done wrong.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Action without Vision is blind
Vision without Action is lame

Bob Dilts

[QUOTE=uncle phil;2855966]alcohol doesn't solve any problems, [QUOTE]

No, but it sure makes them easier to ignore.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

--Jimi Hendrix.

"The race is not always to the strong...
nor the race to the swift...
but thst's the way to bet!!!

On the subject of sexual double standards:

"A key that opens many locks is a master key. A lock that is opened by many keys is a shitty lock."

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country...

Don't shit where you eat.

Don't yell out your friend's name while walking through their ominously quiet house, that you just found the door standing wide open to...

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him dirty names...

Never heard this one before, but I absolutely love it :thumbsup:

Also,
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you ... as by the attitude you bring to life.

always know how you will get quickly out of any room in your house in the event of a fire, especially upstairs bedrooms. Always have means for you and anyone who lives in your house who is old enough to understand to break and get out of the window if you need to. (rope ladders cost next to nothing)

might save your life one day, and if make sure all your kids do this, it might save one of their lives, or one of your grandkids, you get the idea...

Those that don't demand their rights don't have any. -US Supreme Court

Delaying the decision is worse than making the wrong decision. You can usually fix wrong decisions. You can't fix indecision.

Losers fail and quit. Winners fail until they succeed.

Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein

"Imagination is just madness wearing a nice shirt" -Me

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never let the world grind you down into homogeny, all greatness in this world has come from what was at the time considered madness. I don't mean the small-time crazy that lives in it's own little world inside someone's head... I mean the real stuff, I'm talking about the kind of crazy that stands up and says "No." and changes everyone ELSE'S world too.

But even beyond that being mature, productive, or classy simply does not necessitate being boring and unhappy. Pay attention to children, they know the real priorities. I mean think about it... when was the last time you saw a butterfly? Do you even remember? Did you stop to watch? What about a four leaf clover, how recently have you combed over a clover patch looking for one?

These are the simple things we lose when we become too concerned with great matters of consequence that are of no great consequence at all, and with their loss we also lose a very important spart that can lead to greatness in our lives. The guy that gets the promotion for coming up with the phenomenal solution is seldom the guy that never jumps in the fountain when it's 90 degrees and his bus home is late. Never let someone tell you that one person can't make a difference, that you can't change the world. The Jews say that he who destroys a life has destroyed an entire world... the same is true in reverse. When you change one life you have changed an entire world, their world. And perhaps yours as well.



"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." -the 14th Dalai Lama

By that same token remember what else is really important in life. Spending too much time working to provide for your family isn't going to be worth anything if you lose your family for that very same reason. The same with your friends.



Violence is the last resort of the unintelligent and the unimaginative

If there's something wrong and you have the ability to take action then you have a responsibility to take action.

"There is no justice, there's Just Us."

Going back to the first point... it really does just take one person to change the world. One person to stand up and say "this is wrong", one to share a Dream, One person to ask if at long last someone has left no sense of decency, or One person to ask us to be their neighbor when we are all alone in the night.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

I thought this might be another way to say "don't bite off more than you can chew" gets translated to:
Don't stick anything up your ass that you can't get back out.

People will go to a hotel bar with others for lots of reasons, but there's only one reason anyone goes to a hotel bar alone, and it's not the $14 martinis.
This is really good advice. While we're on safety, never assume someone else has called 911 (or 999, etc. depending on your local emergency number.)

Look to your own backyard for your heroes, not Hollywood or sports figures.

if you start it. finish it

Time is fleeting, you will die, set goals, aspirations, and live life.

We are all dying, just at different speeds. Regardless of speed, live the same way.

(I made that one up I think).

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"Always have a plan to kill anyone you meet."

;)

:D

From one of my fav books.

This is something I will never learn to abide:

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior." - supposedly Confucius, seen upon a trailer on a Hawaiian beach

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"Sure, you can hide the bodies, but learning how to talk your way out of sticky situations means a lot less shoveling." - ?

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"You can try, but you can't live your life like you're limited to whatever you can carry." - somebody I need to prove wrong

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No, but it ruins marriages.

"Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it."

Henry Louis Mencken

stop taking embarrassing pictures of people and putting them online, b/c you're ruining all the fun.

before you die:

build a lego with a kid
raise a puppy
do something for a friend for no reason other than they put up with your shit
love someone
go fishing
get VERY drunk (or get drunk first and then go fishing)
fight someone
finish a game of monopoly
host a superbowl party
hug a dying relative like you miss them already, then get them drunk and take them fishing
get your heart broken
pet the dog that you raised as a pup gently when it gets too old and has to be put down
make an important 50-50 decision on the toss of a coin (hasn't failed me yet)
talk to a veteran
have children
vote
wipe after conducting business on the porcelain throne
replenish the toilet paper if it runs out

there are some more but i cant think of them

"Never trade one rut for another."

(New fav)

don't spit into the wind...

Look over your shoulder, something may be gaining on you.

If you decide to have kids with someone, don't let the kids rule your life. Always make sure to make time for yourselves. This can be as simple as going to a movie without the kids or as involved as going on a trip without them. You will be spending a lot of time with your kids, making time for yourselves is not something about which you should have guilt.

The harder you work, the harder you work.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. -Hunter S. Thompson

For some reason, I like that.

'Never turn your back on a friend, thats the best target.'

people who are what they seem to be
generally don't seek psychotherapy...

never flirt at a nudist beach...

Woah there uncle phil some of us browse the general discussion areas in public.

If you ever get the sudden urge to run around naked, you should sniff some Windex first.

It'll keep you from streaking...

Hmmm...

If its the zombie apocalypse be quiet. Guns attract more zombies. Use blades and blunt objects, bows and crossbows, if you must use a gun then use one with a suppressor. Always sleep somewhere safe. Always have an escape route planned.

For the love of god be sensible, but if you can't be sensible...don't get caught.

it's not whether you win or lose, but how you place the blame...

Life goes on. Whenever everything you've worked for falls apart, and you find yourself alone with absolutely nothing, remember this: Life goes on. Pick up the pieces, learn from your mistakes, and know that this is not the end.

Life doesn't go on. Not on the same path, anyway. You get -one- shot. And if you miss it, you don't get to take it back. Plan accordingly.

When you become a manager, don't forget your experience as an underling. If you respect your workers, they will be more motivated to respect you when it counts. This is doubly true for personal assistants and executive assistants.

That terrible whine means you probably need a new belt. Take care of it sooner than later.

When asked "What is best in life?" you must immediately reply with:

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before and to hear the lamentations of their women!"

when asked what you like most in a woman, realize that the question is talking about intangible things

Yep. Exactly. You miss that shot, it's not the end of the world. There's plan B, and maybe plan C and if not, then maybe you ought to evaluate your options and see what you can do. Unless that shot was meant to stop someone from ending your life, at which point, my advice is useless anyway.

You're missing my point. My point is that every year there are critical life path decisions that we all make. Jobs, education, hobbies, partners, etc. I'm not talking about things other people do or acts of Allah, I'm talking about you taking responsibility for yourself. You're a fool if you think you can just pick things up whenever you want. Everything is finite. Time gets everybody. That's why procrastination is really bad, New Year's resolutions are cliche and romance novels sell so well. As I approach my next decade of life I've had to make big decisions on where I want to go with it. Do I choose mediocre pay for one-of-a-kind adventure and testosterone merit badges or do I choose a cushy, free time w/ hobbies life that will take care of me when I'm older?

I only get to pick one.

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Also:

Thanks. I have use for this. :thumbsup:

You don't always get to pick at all.

you are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on...