What are your words to live by?
An old quote from a centuries ago, said by your role model, from your favorite book, show, or even a quote you invented yourself.
"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." - For example.
List several, if needed.
What are your words to live by?
An old quote from a centuries ago, said by your role model, from your favorite book, show, or even a quote you invented yourself.
"If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." - For example.
List several, if needed.
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." - George Carlin
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool." - Haruko (FLCL)
"Imagination is more important than intelligence" - Albert Einstein
"We will fight in the city, We will fight in the hills, We will fight in the
landing fields, but we will never surrender." - Winston Churchill
"Even in the face of armageddon, never comprimise." - Rorschach
(Watchmen)
"To be boy is the be a fool" -Ta-kun from FLCL
"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" "- George Bernard Shaw
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
From his essay "Self-Reliance."
"Everything more or less tastes like chicken."
**"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
By** Benjamin Franklin
Simple one really.
"Dreams come."
I made up a quote several years ago but it isn't something to follow by, simply a fact which I acknowledge.
"Time is all of our Murderers."
Since I can make up some of my own
"The only things we need to accomplish, is to become better than the last generation."
"There is no greater sin than stupidity"
Here's some that I've heard, but have no idea where I got them from
"There are no greater lies other than the ones we tell ourselves"
"The only time a person worthless, is when he/she does not learn"
"Time is an illusion, what exists is the moment"
"Life is but a passing dream, what we does creates reality"
"Check your fly."
"A wasted life is the one gone unexamined". ~Socrates
"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die". ~I forgot.
@Mr.:
"Imagination is more important than intelligence" - Albert Einstein
This one is great and it fits me perfectly! I'm a dumbass but I have a huge imagination.
"No Matter how bad things might seem… they can't be any better, they can't be any worse... because that's the way things freakin are, and you'd better get used to it, Nancy."
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
-Plato
see my sig for the third
"How 'bout 5 cross yo lips?" - Fred Sandford
"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone." - Fred sandford
(waving his fist in the air) "…How would you like one of these where you sneeze?" - Fred sanford
Solves every argument and can shut any person up.
A couple of ones that could be considered serious.
"Freedom is never given; it is won." – A. Philip Randolph
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today". - Malcolm X
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. - Malcolm X
Very nice. I love these.
I'll include a some of my own: "In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” - Akira Kurosawa
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
“Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -Calvin Coolidge
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
"Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" – all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process." -Peter Koestenbaum
"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
'It's better to live an hour as a lion than a lifetime as a worm.'
'If you can't see the headlands it's raining, if you can….then its about to rain' (last one is mainly for the UK)
But I can't remember a single one that I could honestly say that I would actually live by it_…_
_“If you live long enough, you’ll find everybody’s just another love song gone bad."
"if you live long enough, you’ll find what makes the man is everything he never had."
"if you live long enough, you’ll find right here, right now, may be your best of times."
~ Free Dominguez (from her song, "Truth or a Lie to Believe")
"When ya have a hard time, just laugh." ~ Saulo
"Do or do not. There is no try." ~ Yoda
"Live. Laugh. Love." ~ I has no ideas
"Go forth and die." ~ Nathan Explosion_
something I learned from my mom is "live life one day at a time" This was something she learned for herself, when she was very sick. She was very sick for over a year, and it was hard to cope with, so she did it the only way she could. one day at a time.
some others I like:
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"A person who is nice to you, and then rude to the waiter is not a nice person."
–Dave Barry
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
"A wise man embraces the silence. A fool can be heard for miles." - Gen (game: Street Fighter Alpha 3)
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
-Dave Barry
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
--Benjamin Franklin
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." Quentin Crisp
"When you're in bed, you're dead." - Morrie Schwartz
"Live your life with no regrets." - Repeated in various forms by many people.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"Give a man a fish and he'll be able to eat for that today. Teach a man how to fish and he'll be able to eat for the rest of his life." - Proverb?
"Nothing in life is givin to you, you have to take it."
"Give a man a fish and he'll be able to eat for that today. Teach a man how to fish and he'll be able to eat for the rest of his life." - Proverb?
That reminds me of another quote, even if it isn't necessarily a quote to live by- but it's rather amusing:
"Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - ??
So its a Mystery cloud. By Monkey D. Luffy
that's not a word to live by? O_o
lol
"Nothing in life is givin to you, you have to take it."
actually, this reminds me of the phrase "ask and you shall recieve"
so many people are so scared to ask for things. It never hurts to ask.
'I want there to be no more regrets, no more tears, I want you to go out and live life, and prove to me that I was not mistaken in mind.' ~ William Hartnell.
"It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird." – Anonymous
"Not everything is OK.
But thats OK."-Anonymous
"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso
(Pretty much anything that came out of Picasso's mouth is worth living by, awesome mofo that guy)
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
-Gandhi
"**Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as practiced by people of all colors and races here in this Ancient Holy Land, the home of Abraham, Muhammad and all other prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors."-Malcom X
(Know why I like Malcom X more than MLK? Because he shows human change rather than simply savior like martyrdom, you can learn more watching this hardcore NOI frontman become truly a social wiseman than just reading MLK speechs, no offense whatsoever to MLK though)
EDIT: Griffith's speech on dreams to Charlotte in Berserk, I'm so fucking tired of angst monkeys trying to sound cool by talking down ambition and dreams as sugary childhood lies. Griffith just lays it out for them with a smack down speech.**
‘We cannot stop time from flowing, my dear, yet if we are able to harness it’s power. Our lives are more the richer.’ ~ Patrick Troughton: The Tomb of the Cybermen.
Quite possibly one of my fave quotes, and the inspiration to a romance novel I'm writing.
"I believe in happiness"
From the song "Wake/Riyuu" from Dir en grey
"Don't fuck with Stephen King, that nigra is crazy."
My favorite is "What goes around comes around." My mom quoted it to me all the time as a child.
i'd love to believe that's true, but I have yet to see it happen. |:\
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." ~Douglas Adams
"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool." ~Haruko, FLCL
And last, but not least.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"Everyone can have an opinion, that's alright. But who says you have to care about them?"
@Mr.:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." ~J.R.R. Tolkien
That reminds me of a quote that a friend of mine had in her sig.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup"
Monkey see, monkey do!
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
I don't think about the future, it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
Time goes so fast
Heaven is lost - "Lost Heaven", L'Arc~en~Ciel
"Jimmy, only retards flip their collars up"
"Better dead than smeg." - Arnold Rimmer
"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body – as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?" - Bill Hicks
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk
"You can pick your friends,
And you can pick your nose,
But you can never pick your friend's nose."
Forgot where I got that, but nonetheless [sp?] it's awesome.
Always reach for the stars even if you know you can't reach them. At the very least you get a good stretch and nice view and maybe a low hanging apple for your efforts.
~ Mooshie, Solace by R A Salvatore
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
Enough will, is will enough
Keep your Friends close, and your enemies even closer…...then have sex with them : imcp
Tragedy is when I cut my finger
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die
-Mel Brooks
In addtion, there are some interesting ones here…
http://despair.com/
Tragedy is when I cut my finger
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die
-Mel BrooksIn addtion, there are some interesting ones here…
http://despair.com/
Haha, I love that site. I even bought a custom made calendar from there.
Dont know where this is from but oh to hell with it.
"Work not only harder but smarter."
@Rai:
"You can pick your friends,
And you can pick your nose,
But you can never pick your friend's nose."Forgot where I got that, but nonetheless [sp?] it's awesome.
I heard one like that too– my dad used to say "You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends on the couch."
"The only difference between me and a mad person is that I am not mad."
-Salvador Dali
"Having no money's like a sinus infection. You just have to ignore it and not pick at it, and it'll go away."