A particular favorite, and one that I try to remember every single day, usually by necessity:
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
amen brutha.
Never pre-judge someone. Take the time to get to know where they are coming from, and get to understand their feelings.
Try to understand both sides of an argument before jumping in to respond. Do your best to put yourself in their shoes.
(I try to do this every day) :flower
Life’s short, but it’s wide!
if I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand.
In everything you do, whether it be actions or words, think about someone else before you think about yourself. :medal
If you aren’t living on the edge, you are taking up too much space :cheers
I like that one, Rick!
“The journey is the reward.”
Take it easy…and if it comes easy, take it twice :thumbsup
One of my kids gave me this quote, I have no idea where it originally comes from, I look at it every morning…
[i]This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it.
I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, beauty and achievements, or it can be filled with pettiness.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever, but I shall hold something which I have traded for it.
It may be no more than a memory, but if it is a worthy one, I shall not regret the price.
This day will be a gain not a loss, it will generate good not evil, and it will be a success; not a failure.[/i]
:cheers
Right on, Punchy! Hey, who’s your tailor? :thumbsup
For the sports minded folks out there, here’s a good one:
“You miss 100% of the shots that you never take.”
Love the positive vibe…here’s mine:
“Where the line of the world’s need crosses the line of your ability - that’s where to spend your life.” Unknown :thumbsup
annpete, love it! Punchy, REALLY love it, that one’s getting printed and posted by my desk.
arcticdesertnomad… :rolleyes
Here’s a light-hearted one from W.C. Fields…I’m sure most of us can relate
“Never trust a man who doesn’t drink”
:cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers
Another one from W.C. Fields:
“I don’t drink water, fish f*** in it” :cheers
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
:drunk
And one more personal fav…
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
Rules to life according to my freind the inimitable Reverend Billy Hults:
All together now, maybe this belongs in Bluegrass karaoke…
of all the things you learn here
remember this the best
Don’t hurt each other
and clean up your mess
take a nappy every day
and wash before you eat
hold hands stick together
look before you cross the street
remember the seed in the little paper cup
first the root grows down then the plant grows up.
or as Lourdes said this morning in the kitchen:
“life is weird”
Here is one I like " Every minute is somewhere you have never been before."
Life is a sexually transmitted disease. :lol
and its terminal :eek
“time is only a very convincing illusion, the only thing that truly exists is the here and now”