Life changing quotes (Maybe, "life lessons" would be a better fit?)

[Edgyone]

A qualification to the saying "Better late than never": "Too late is the same as never"

Seize the day.

 

[So-Lo]

Here is a simple question that can save you a lot of money when making a deal and when applied to all relationships and endeavors it will improve your life.




Is that the best you can do?

This is gold! It can be applied every aspect of life.


Lots of good moving stuff here :thumbup:

 

[Rupestris]

My favorite is in my sig. I'm sure i could loaf in bed on my days off but thats no way to build memories.

My other favorite is one my grandfather taught me. Keep your words short and sweet. You never know when you may have to eat them.

 

[azmike]

and one we will be soon facing
"if you think your health care costs are expensive now---wait til the government gives them to you for free".

 

[Trent Rock]

Law 38 ​

Think as you like but Behave like others ​

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power

Great book if you like all that Machiavellian stuff :thumbup:

 

[verga]

Mother Teresa's Anyway Poem
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

[Reportedly inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, and attributed to her. However, an article in the New York Times has since reported (March 8, 2002) that the original version of this poem was written by Kent M. Keith.]

 

[untamed]

^ Whoa! Thanks for sharing Verga! The power of serenity.

 

[kozak6]

Paraphrased from my father:
Sometimes good enough is good enough."

A qualification to the saying "Better late than never": "Too late is the same as never"

But never late is better.

 

[gajinoz]

Two things.

The first is used so often its a cliche:

Don't sweat the small stuff.

That one is a bit more profound than you might at first think.

The second one:

A Vietnam helicopter pilot, (he flew slicks), was told something by his instructor when he was learning to fly.

There is always a way.

Doesn't sound like much, does it?

Think about it. No matter how difficult something is, if you really want to do it, there is always a way.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Easy does it.

One day at a time.

 

[jiggyfly16]

"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done"

- Leonardo Da Vinci

 

[knife doctor]

"The problem with most folks is that they aim too low and shoot too well."

MP

 

[komondor]

You gotta break the rules to get things done and break the law to have some fun.-- me

Life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.-- unknown

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.-- Charles "Barfly" Bukowski

 

[Hamon]

If

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-Rudyard Kipling-​

Thanks Mark.

Travis

 

[Masteroffajitas]

If you will it, it is no dream.

-State of Isreal dude

 

[dougo83]

Dunno who told me this, but I know it's from John Wayne:

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

 

[akivory]

Twenty years ago a really messed up pregnant teenage girl came to live with us.After my grandson was born they lived with us for ten years and my wife taught our oldest adopted daughter how to be a mother and work. My grandson is now 19 and for the last few years we had not seen him much. In the last few months he has been coming around and asking me for advice. I have asked him to read The Proverbs of Solomon.
These ageless truths are priceless. This is a proverb that every young man should memorize.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman

After meeting his last girlfriend I told him: If you rescue a damsel in distress you my end up with a distressed damsel.

 

[Charles Gallo]

"You are what you do when it counts" - The Masso, from the book Armor

 

[Bumppo]

"When you do something right, people won't know you've done anything at all."
"god" from Futurama.

 

[kalama]

my pops whos kinda out there told me this after some years when he came back from nam i never forgot it he said ((("son if you be a doctor be the best doctor you can be,if your a carpenter be the best you can be,you wana be a gangster be the best bangster you can be,but if you wana be a pimp boy,you be the best dam pimp you can be but remember this dad gets 50% off")))) true story its funny but i think he ment no matter what i choose to do in life good or bad he would be by my side an you know what he always has,aloha