Words of Wisdom, Share Favorites

Do YOU have any Words of Wisdom you favor and would share?
How about authoring "Words of Wisdom".

Moi's fav, "What's Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander" to oppose exceptionalism.

Then there is Moi's Corollary to,
"Just because I'm Paranoid Doesn't Mean The Whole World Isn't Out To Get Me".
Moi's Corollary
"Just Because I'm A Conspiracist Doesn't Mean It Isn't." Copyright pending Moi.

I also created, "Patience Comes To He Who Waits". But, haven't used it much.

Oh and one more fav, "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions".
I think that means like pledging a donation to Houston and not doing it.

Any wise words to share.
Especially if you created them.

Moi

r > g

Stop Creeping ism
Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic,
regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.​

 

Over here it's 'What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.' Some of my sigs are very philosophical, especially 'There are none who do so much harm as those obsessed with doing good.'

"Karma means I can rest easy at night knowing all the people I treated badly had it coming." Anon.

 

Wisest is he who knows, That he does not know.

 

Sounds like my Homeowners Association
or an Anti Marxist sentiment.

Thank you for that one. Have an extra portion of sauce

 

It ought to be on the dedication page of The Bumper Book of Liberal Rationale, and it might demoralise them into not reading any further thence to cause chaos and mayhem for the rest of us with their dotty ideas.

 

Life is Pain, Pain is Knowledge, Knowledge is Life.

If you understand this going in, you have a better chance of happiness and success.

 

Two sure things in life- death and quarter day.

 

Things are divided in two categories : the one we have controle on it, and the rest : we can controle our actions, our thoughts. It's so madness to wish to controle the rest, and put our desire in it. Yet some people get unhappy because they get older, because people don't love them, our put their happiness in things exterior of them, such as richness. It's madness.

If you lament, don't lament of all your soul.

If you loose a horse, say "I gave it back ", If you loose an arm, say "I gave it back", if you loose your wife or a child, say "I gave it back". You would be less unhappy to think that they didn't belong to you.

Gods, give me the strength to change what I can change and the strength to bear the rest

Some stoician quote I remember, I would be unable to gave them back exactly and say the authors however (probably Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius or Seneca)

"Don't follow my teaching blindly, expermient it" Shakyamuni

 

That's really depressed me!

 

Expectation is the cause of all disappointment and thus do we create our own.

 

That's depressed me even more!

 

Thing is, if you know there will be pain you are not caught off guard when it happens so it is lessened. If you then think about and understand what caused the pain you become a more informed and better person which is the point of this life.

 

Sad far too many think it's a race to see who finishes with the most stuff.

 

Yet, it is the simple reality. ALL expectations are a product of your making and thus when someone/something disappoints you have disappointed yourself.

 

The expectations of a woman getting married is that she can change her spouse for the better. For the man his expectation is that she will never change from who she is when he married her. Both are doomed to be disappointed in their expectations. [Not my own but worth sharing IMO.]

All women are cold blooded! [Yes, this is my own observation and it has nothing to do with attitude and everything to do with reality. Women are always cold no matter what. I have no idea why this is true but it is.]

No one's possessions and wealth will be mourners at their funeral! [Another of my own.]

Americans love their possessions and use people. That is assbackwards. [Not mine but I agree wholeheartedly.]

 

Women are Crazy.
Men are Stupid.
Women are Crazy because Men are Stupid.
Men are Stupid because Women say they are.

Women are NOT cold blooded, you just picked the ones who are...get yer picker checked.

 

You should tag HereWeGoAgain!

 

Obviously I failed to make myself clear.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...n-causes-great-gender-temperature-divide.html

Does that clarify what I was trying to share?

 

Yup...it also has an awesome benefit in that women can use the man as a heating device.

 

Don't live your life for your funeral.

That dawned on me one day. Worrying about your funeral is living your life for others. It is another way of saying, I want to live in such a way that other people will approve. It is seeking external validation. This notion of value by funeral attendance is an illusion that sneaks into our psyche very subtly. The truth is, I could care less who comes to my funeral. What I really care about is who comes to my bedroom!

 

Addendum: The standards for temperature control, for commercial buildings, were often set back when the work force was mostly men. Accordingly, the preset values often leave women feeling cold at work.

BUT, unless they want the men getting naked, they should still wear sweaters.

 

Everything's fine until it isn't.

 

Why? I don't agree with any of that.

 

In a very literal sense, sex is the meaning of life. It is what we were designed by nature to do [through the process of elimination]. - Just an observation.

Pain results from loss - the loss of a belief, or a loved one, or a lifestyle, or as you mentioned, failed expectations.

The trick is to let go of the pain. It is a choice.

A friend and author once put it another way. Allow yourself to feel the pain. The denial of or resistance to pain is what drains the life out of us. Instead, embrace it.

 

My general disposition to most things is "It is what it is" but the saying that I find to be most true is that no good deed goes unpunished.