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...want to tell others (here).
Are there any important lessons / things that you have learned throughout time, throughout life? Tell me: I want to know and maybe learn from your input, as others can learn too from your words. Especially those older members -- above 30 -- I'd like to read from, though age doesn't really matter.
Here are some of my own (mostly old):
And for the record I'm not cynical nor pessimistic nor sarcastic :)
I would add that a person seeking to be considered honorable, humble or moral, ceases to be, once their focus and measure of argument becomes the humbling of their opponent.
Follow the money.
Do not judge yourself in comparison to others, judge yourself more harshly.
Call mum!
Quid
From "All I really needed to know I learned in Kindergarten"
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Voiding your bowels in a public restroom is ok.
Ive learned that the more you learn the more you realize how little you really know .
Always be willing to listen.
Nobody has ever laid in their deathbed regretting having wasted so much time with family, wishing they'd spent more time doing things for themselves.
One thing I learned as I ventured out into the wide world was the emotional investment/component that underlies so many positions people hold and that this applies regardless the level of education.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bijo
Don't shave naked in front of a hot radiator.
Two serious ones out of experience, being my guidelines ever since.
- Life does not have a meaning, it never was meant to have.
- Live up for yourself before anything and anyone else.
- "He's not such a person" is the only valid goal. You set the parameters.
Lessons...uh:
whatever opinions you may hold, please don't ever think you're Jesus and should shoot 32 of your fellow students to make your point. And don't blame the illuminati, Americans or Jews. And war is not the solution.
Also, remember that if you think emtions are the root of all evil, that the world is better of destroyed, that girls shouldn't worry about girlie things, then you probably need to get laid.
Friends don't set friends' genitals on fire.
Dont Die
No fat chicks
Words I try to live by, written by a guy smarter than I:
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I like Hosakawa Tito's selection too. Good advice.
Also, please understand: I don't recommend anyone adopt the Desiderata principles early in life. The teens and 20's are apparently the designated time for self-identification and conflict involvement. Sometime in the 30's or later, after one knows who one is, having gone through those conflicts, is a good time to re-assess one's perspective, and seek real strength and truth.
Oh, and two other valuable ones: never pee uphill, or spit into the wind.
Never pee into the wind either.Quote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
1. everybody wants something from you, the sooner you figure out what that is the better you are able to deal with them
2. there is no GOD
3. we are all the same
To quote someone who figured out the solution to all the worlds problems
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My grandfather used to unload some beauties (I'll pick from the PG-rated ones):
- Do like I says, no like I do.
- You'd worry less what other people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.
- Front sight, boy, front sight.
- You won't have no worries if you cash big checks and write small checks.
He was a good man.
Buy low, sell highQuote:
You won't have no worries if you cash big checks and write small checks.
A variation on that theme that I've learned on my own:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
When everybody is running around, declaring that the end is nigh, and the market is in a state of collapse, and the talking heads on TV say things will never be good again ... buy.
When you read editorials about how market cycles are a thing of the past, an the boom will last forever, and all the fundamentals have changed, and everybody's gonna be rich ... sell.
Learn to distinguish between pleasure and happiness. A lot of the time it is possible to hold onto both, however if it comes down to a choice of which to pursue go for happiness even if the path is far more painful.
To respect the humanity in others is a good thing. To not acknowledge the humanity in others is an evil thing.
Laugh at yourself before you make fun of others.
Men use their personalities for contraception.
The world does not owe you anything. It is a gigantic toy store and it is up to you to assemble the pieces and play with your creations.
Try to understand the power of compounding interest. More importantly value yourself and learn time management. Money can always come back to you, the past is gone.
Most of the flaws we see in others is our perception.
Once we learn something it is very hard to unlearn it. So if you want to look happy, calm and professional as you do something... learn it in such a fashion.
Stress might be the little mind killer, but its a good buzz along with caffeine, sexual tension and deadlines. Stress will always crop up, learn to enjoy it and it becomes an acquired taste. Once stress stops clouding your judgment you will find that it is far easier to deal with the underlying problem.
Enjoy the journey.
Never let a redneck near firework morters.
Everything in moderation, except women, ramen noodles and coffee.
Never trust a politician.
Change your oil, frequently.
Never let stress build up.
Have fun.
Things are only as important as you value them. Your life will not end if you don't get a degree, you don't need to be the best musician in the world, nor the greatest author or the fastest runner. Life is pointless, enjoy the ride.
Drugs make you dumb, MJ certainly in the short run, alcohol in the long run.
You CAN have enough money. You don't need every friggin' gadget out there.
The most valuable resource of all is time. Unfortuantely you can't store it.
Water levels may vary dramatically, just because you could sail under a bridge yesterday doesn't mean that is true for the day after :wall:
Never urinate against electric wires.
Never wear white trousers when you have stomach problems.
Don't pick fights with skinheads.
If something is too good to be true try it anyway.
People are *********, don't worry about what they think of you
Family comes first
Don't worry about things you can't do anything about
Don't give advice, cos then it'll be your fault when it all goes wrong
Phone your mum regularly
Laugh
There's no such thing as equal rights
People don't mind being laughed at if you laugh at yourself too
You don't need 6 pairs of underwear for an overnight trip no matter how many times she tells you that you do.
Women are mental
Don't write lists
Don't be scared to change your mind
Admit it when you're wrong
Many more people are stupid than are evil. Unfortunately the practical consequences of the two are often indistinguishable.
Always remember, you might be wrong.
But, having considered that you might be wrong, if you decide that you aren't, go for it, and "daisy" what anyone else says.
Never do anything that would embarrass you. If you are embarrassed: don't do it. If you are not embarrassed: get on with it.
Don't leave it too late to have kids. 30 is plenty.
Real men do NOT ask for directions.
Oh yeah, and Satan invented bacon, apparently. Not sure about that one.
Not possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by English assassin
If there is one true proof of the awesome existence of a magnanimous, loving God it is the bacon sarnie.
Even Professor Dawkins concedes that argument.
Don't believe any of us.
The best things in life aren't things.
If you're not true to yourself, how can you be true to anyone else?
The only heaven or hell are those we make for ourselves on earth.
Youth is wasted on the young :clown:
Stay in credit; nothing destroys freedom like debt.
Smell the flowers, gaze at the stars, swim with dolphins, see the world (not from an armchair, either!)
Your real wealth is the people around you.
Two ways to be rich: make more or desire less. Who dies with the most toys, still dies.
Spending time in reflection, leads to less time in the present state, which clouds potential future outcomes.
Completily unrelated, but Odin, who is Sun Tza
Lets see Fragony, I suspect you know but I dont want to deny you an opportunity at sarcasm, that wouldnt be consistant with your represented charecter here at the org now would it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Sun Tza is in reference to a chinese author who's name I misspelled when putting it into my signature and have been to lazy to fix
I'll go fix it now though, have a nice day.
heheheQuote:
Originally Posted by Odin
humor as a mask for arrogance, delivered as saracasm has a belittling effect on the practioner as well as the object.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Did I spell every thing right? :shame:
Afraid not, but I did learn a few things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Odin
Afraid not, but I did learn a few things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Odin
ps, editing isn't one of them
Well, thanks for the inputs. Well, not everybody of course, heh heh :P
I'd be willing to read more of useful inputs of anybody regarding life lessons :)
Challange everything. Find your own truths, and question them on a regular basis.
If under 30: Trust no one over 30.
If over 30 : Trust no one under 30.
If over 50 : Trust no one,; by then they may all actually be out to get you.
Read Rudyard Kipling's poem "if".
http://www.businessballs.com/ifpoemrudyardkipling.htm
Or on to you. :laugh4:Quote:
If over 50 : Trust no one,; by then they may all actually be out to get you.
Even paranoids have enemies.
Short term gain often equates to long term pain. One of the main failures of the American economic (credit) philosophy.
Better to suffer short term pain for the long term gain - save your rearend off while your young and earning.
Ever notice that easy money is easily spent?
In all things a bit of truth. In money, very little. 'tis true, the harder the money earned - the harder to relinquish it. Then again, there reaches a point where a man works with man, or against man - all men become his enemy, because he has come an enemy of man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny