Maxims
We have a quote thread, we have 'Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken', but we don't have a thread to share personal maxims, sayings or aphorisms. Please post them, if you have any, here.
10 minutes isn't the difference between energetic and tired, but it is the difference between late and on-time.
10 minutes isn't the difference between energetic and tired, but it is the difference between late and on-time.
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Like taking the coffee cup off the car roof before it spills down the windshield while backing out. :gasp:
Lefty loosey righty tighty.
If you can't be good be careful, if you can't be careful tie a knot in it.
Never do today what you can put off until next Tuesday, and if you can't do it then, forget about it.
Never judge another for you never know what they might be dealing with behind closed doors. - Mom
There is a difference between "knowing" and "doing". - My response to telling my kids to do something and they say "I know Mom!"
If someone has a problem with you and you like who you are, that is their problem not yours. - me
Don't get mad, kill them with kindness. - Mom
When it's harder to suffer than change, we change. - not sure
Do what you love, do it honestly and with everything you have and the 'rest' will follow. - Dr. S
Only you know the answer to that question. - Grampa about relationship advice
Oh, stop moaning. We got rid of the moron trigger just for you. Relax, celebrate, dance.
No. Realize you've worked too hard and never do that again. Just who are you trying to impress anyway? ;)
That one I got from Orson Welles, explaining Touch of Evil , and he said he got it from Renoir.
So true. I agree.
Here's one:
"You breed crows, your eyes are gonna get pecked."
I'm both honored, and also a moron. Actually, I tend to be a moron more often than I receive honor. Thanks for both?
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo
(If I cannot bend the heavens, I will stir the infernal powers)
- Virgil, Aeneid VII, 312.
I think this explains a lot of your behavior as a moderator. :friendly smirk:
I also like this one, although together with the last, it's darker than you might think:
"Let us laugh together, on principle" - William Connolly
Mr. Connolly has stated my entire philosophy in six words.
If you don't want to fix problems, don't cause them.
1. Honesty is always, always, always the best policy. At all times, places, and in all situations. (See #2)
2. Occasionally choosing an action that is NOT necessarily the best policy might help you live longer, and could turn out to be fun. (See #3)
3. If your Significant Other finds out that you are both a liar and a hypocrite, you may not WANT to live any longer. Honestly, that’s not fun. (See #1 and strongly consider staying there) :yum:
I estimate that during that period I spoke one on one with roughly between 150k - 170k different people from all over the world, of all types and ages. I learned that they are all same, all of them. I also think that humans were never meant to mass interact on that level, it left me with with a general dislike of people. I quit before that dislike grew into something more, but I still have a hard time not getting irritated with just about everyone.
"It is what it is"
Everything is nothing. Nothing is everything.
Something is part of everything. Everything is part of each thing.
(or something like that! :wink: )
Most of the time, the evidence and facts one has are much closer to 1% than 100%.
All the world’s a stage... which one day it’ll grow out of.
Life is a little game of “doing what you can with what you have, for as long as possible... while taking what you need, and giving what you can” Hopefully, while ever learning and discarding the ineffective and wasteful.
Even a blind squirrel can find his nuts.
:blush:
If you do something stupid, don't do it twice.
I suppose I was never good at putting that into practice though...
Or possibly you mean people having sex with sex dolls? Whoever heard of such a thing--screwing a piece of inflated plastic! Sex with a sex doll would not be meaningless, however. It might not be a sublime and elegant meaning, but it would have meaning, none-the-less.
Charles Peguy.
No one suggested that the sex doll be inanimate. I take "sex doll" as a descriptive term describing a certain personality, not one I particularly aspire to, but one that fulfills an occasional purpose.
My decadent narrative is so much more interesting than other's. It's my most unRepublican aspect.
Do what you can... and can the doo-doo.
Mono-culture is the death of culture. Simplicity can be beautiful, but nature’s strength is its complexity.
Working for the good is always in order. Fighting for what one perceives to be right is best when it is not the first option. Some things are worth fighting for. But some things are too valuable and fragile to fight over. There are no winners when the “fight for what is right” becomes the “fight to be right”.
The exchange of data is not necessarily communication. There is occasionally an accidental overlap, however.
Assuming that someone has changed is risky. Assuming they can NEVER change is riskier.
To neither get ahead nor behind of yourself is to be in rhythm. To be in rhythm is to be ready.
Cutting the clutter is usually helpful, both physically and mentally. Not confusing motion with progress, preference with quality, opinion with fact, cliche with truth, novelty with originality, and appearances with reality, clears the table to get down to business. The wrong answers are usually louder, larger, and more numerous than the right one. Yet sometimes sweeping statements clean the room. Other times, they kick up a lot of dust. At times, they manage to do both!
Wisdom occasionally feels like “Aha!” Sometimes it is “Oh...”. Most often it seems to be “Ouch”.
A person may sometimes speak a truth, or express a drop of wisdom. Matter and energy, the Earth and the life around us never stops churning its torrent of truth, its waterfall of wisdom. Dare we swim in those waters?
Try not to let progress slow you down...