Words you live by

[Bulldogcakes]

Moe's thread asking for advice on dealing with life made me think we could use a place where we could all post some favorite quotes/words of wisdom that have helped us get through our own troubles.
Post anything, from a short phrase that kept you on a diet to a longer one that kept you sane.

I'll start

"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious"
-B C Forbes

"Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life."
-B. C. Forbes

"Don't curse the darkness - light a candle." - Chinese proverb

[cougarjake13]

try not, do or do not, there is no try - yoda

[Recyclerz]

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain

Always expect the worst. You'll be right most of the time but when you're wrong you'll be happy. (Not sure if I'm stealing that one or came up with it myself.)

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. - Dave Barry

[SinA]

Puntuality is a virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

[Fat_Sunny]

What Goes Around, Comes Around.

[prothunderball]

You wouldn't worry about what other people thought of you, if realized how little they did.

[mendyweiss]

Don't look back, someone might be gainin on you- Satchel Paige

[FUNKMAN]

you never have time to do it right but you always have time to do it over

[Gvac]

Great idea for a thread, Bulldog. There are literally hundreds of quotes (and even lyrics) that I've found to be enlightening and inspirational, and I'm sure it's the same for everyone.

A few of my favorites -

"The boat always rights itself as it passes under the bridge" - Chinese proverb

"Compete with no one, and no one can compete with you" - Lao Tzu

"The entire moon and sky are reflected in a single drop of dew" - Dogen

[BoondockSaint]

"Freedom is something that dies unless it is used." - Hunter S. Thompson
"Never get out of bed before noon." - Charles Bukowski

[prothunderball]

"Never get out of bed before noon." - Charles Bukowski

Made me think of my favorite Bukowski quote, " Some people never go crazy. Why truly horrible lives they must lead." I don't know if it's something to live by, but it makes me feel better when shit is going haywire.

[Fezticle98]

Puntuality is a virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

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[Fat_Sunny]

"Freedom is something that dies unless it is used."

Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose.

[Gvac]

Another passage from Lao Tzu's Tao that I use to remind myself of the untapped potential in every human being -

"He who is in perfect harmony is like a newborn child; though his bones are soft and his muscles weak, his grip is firm.

Though he has not yet known the union of male and female, his organ stirs with vitality.

He can howl all day and night and never become hoarse, so perfect is its harmony."

[Bulldogcakes]

Here's some more favorites of mine

"If you want to prosper for one year, grow greens. If you want to prosper for 10 years, grow trees. If you want to prosper permenantly, grow your people." -Chinese proverb

"We are each of us angels with only one wing, we can only fly by embracing each other" -Lucianio De Crescenzo

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever"-Napolean

[GFunk]

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

[Hottub]

What Goes Around, Comes Around.


Hah!! I got you Fat. You really are a Hair Metal head!

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[BoondockSaint]

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. " - Ernest Hemingway

[TheGameHHH]

control the things you are able to control

[A.J.]

"Never rat out your friends...and always keep your mouth shut."

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And...

"Be the ball."

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[Landblast]

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[RoseBlood]

"There are literally hundreds of quotes (and even lyrics) that I've found to be enlightening and inspirational..." - Gvac

[lleeder]

"You will find true love on Flag Day"-Homer

[fohat]

"Be good, but if you can't be good be happy." -grandma

[Chainsaw]

"It's not until you've lost everything that you're free to do anything"....


Got me through some tough times....

[Don Stugots]

"There are literally hundreds of quotes (and even lyrics) that I've found to be enlightening and inspirational..." - Gvac

:clap:

[Bob Impact]

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand

[PapaBear]

You don't need a gynecologist to know which way the wind blows.

[Fat_Sunny]

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand

Fat's Gonna Ask You To Do A Reading At The Party.

Or Maybe An Interpretive Dance.

[patsopinion]

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
thomas jefferson

[DarkHippie]

a life spent in service to mankind is the only life worth living.-- paraphrased from Tolstoy

[IamPixie]

"if you wait by the bank of the river long enough, you'll see the bodies of your enemies floating by"

[TheQuestion]

"Situations change. You're never who you used to think you are....how strange." - Jerry Lynn Williams

[bobrobot]

"We are here to have fun."
~A boy genius named Alexander whom I had the distinct pleasure of meeting once~
It sounds pithy, but the implications are pretty heavy.
If we were busy being playful, creative, inquisitive,
there would be no opportunity for anyone to do any harm.

[reeshy]

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit.
We become just by doing just acts."
Aristotle

[mendyweiss]

I never owned property, I owned people who owned property-Meyer Lansky

[sr71blackbird]

Never rub another mans rhubarb

[Don Stugots]

Never rub another mans rhubarb

i love that one.

[foodcourtdruide]

It's actually a Ronnie B. Quote that helps me understand the way the world works:

"Everyone has someone they never speak of, but think about everyday."

[Bellyfullasnot]

"Lead, follow, or get outta the way"- not sure

[Bob Impact]

Fat's Gonna Ask You To Do A Reading At The Party.

Or Maybe An Interpretive Dance.

For you F_S, sure.

[Bob Impact]

"A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness–non-existence–as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw–the zero."

[cupcakelove]

Whats the worst that can happen?

[Recyclerz]

"A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness–non-existence–as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw–the zero."

OK Mr. Roark, I won't hold the door open for you if you're coming up behind me at Dave's wedding. :wink:

[Badinia]

"When you're thin and damp and shoddy, just remember that you're in a body..." - The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock

"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke"- anon, Dictators lyric

"It's better to be a freak than a nerd. A nerd is a freak without self-confidence."- read in a bike magazine once.

[Bob Impact]

OK Mr. Roark, I won't hold the door open for you if you're coming up behind me at Dave's wedding. :wink:

:lol:

Slam it in my face, it's only fair!

[reeshy]

"I forgive you"

[Don Stugots]

"To hell with Bulldog cakes!"

GVAC

[Bulldogcakes]

"To hell with Bulldog cakes!"-GVAC

I'm sure he didn't mean it. He's old and feeble minded, he probably doesn't even know what year it is. I forgive the old bastard, he's senile.

[Landblast]

"Donuts,..is there anything they can't do?" -Homer Simpson

[oh_kee_pa]

Those Who Don't Love Women, Wine & Song Remain A Fool There Whole Life Long - Martin Luther

[Don Stugots]

Those Who Don't Love Women, Wine & Song Remain A Fool There Whole Life Long - Martin Luther

MLK said that? Cool.

[oh_kee_pa]

MLK said that? Cool.

Vandros actually