Simple sayings to live by

[GuJu]

i've been studying Confucius and Lao Tzu lately

and im wondering what sayings do you live by.

such as

"This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time"

- Tyler Durden, Fight Club

If you aren't doing something that you may regret later, you obviously aren't risking enough.

[Fish]

"No regrets"

[Rohdekill]

"kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out"

[Nayos]

Anything else from Fight Club or Chuck Palahniuk

'You have to realise that one day you will die, until you do that you are useless'

'You're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes.'

'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.'

'It's only after you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything.'

'Maybe self-destruction is the answer'

'I just don't want to die without a few scars'

'"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.'

'Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.'

'"The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.'

[speed3okie]

It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb-ass look on your face.

[mtrftw]

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu

Get to tha Choppa - Arnold

Edited September 4, 2008 by Don Matteo

[Dave Diller]

Anything else from Fight Club or Chuck Palahniuk

'You have to realise that one day you will die, until you do that you are useless'

'You're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes.'

'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.'

'It's only after you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything.'

'Maybe self-destruction is the answer'

'I just don't want to die without a few scars'

'"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.'

'Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.'

'"The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.'

I won't even begin to correct those quotes from Fight Club :p

"I dream because I want to succeed...and I will succeed because I dream" - Anonymous

[Hendrick]

"You never know what you have till it's gone."

That quote stands out to me so much... when you loose something, only then do you really, really realize how much you depended on it.

[FiB3R]

"Do that again, and I'll smash your ****ing face in." :)

[suicide_pact]

"We'll burn that that bridge once we cross it" -Me

[ATGC]

"Sometimes, you gotta roll the hard six" - Admiral Adama of the Battlestar Galactica and the Colonial Fleet.

[megamanXplosion]

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Alfred Adler) The thought manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and habit hardens into character; so watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings… as the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. (Buddha) Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. (Aristotle)

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. (Aristotle) Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. (E.F. Schumacker) Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. (Leonardo DaVinci) As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. (Henry David Thoreau) By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. (Democritus) Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. (Benjamin Franklin) Wisdom outweighs any wealth. (Sophocles) Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. (Lao-tzu) The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

[Nayos]

I won't even begin to correct those quotes from Fight Club :p

"I dream because I want to succeed...and I will succeed because I dream" - Anonymous

The 'you are not your job' one is from memory but the others are correct, apart from some of them have things like 'Tyler says' and other lines of text missing from in between. They're from the book.

[Dave Diller]

Ah, never read the book - they are slightly off from the movie, though. For example:

'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.'

should be

'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else. We are all a part of the same compost heap.'

[hekkyUK]

ONE.

Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO.

Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE.

Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR.

When you say, "I love you", mean it.

FIVE.

When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.

SIX.

Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN.

Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT.

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN.

In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.

ELEVEN.

Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE.

Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN.

When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN.

Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

SEVENTEEN.

Remember the three R's:

Respect for self;

Respect for others;

Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY.

Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY ONE.

Spend some time alone.

[alotomeat]

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

This quote means literally everything to me. Having recently gone through an extremely dark chapter in my life, I rely on these words every day. For about a year now, I have had this quote as the background on my PC and my iphone, so I see it many times per day. When I think about what Churchill and his country were going through during WWII, and his courage under those circumstances, it makes my own struggles seem smaller. I'm a pretty young guy, but WWII has always inspired me because of his kind of bravery, and for me, his quote just sums up the entire war.

[Hum]

There are no problems -- only Solutions. :happy:

[sundayx Veteran]

Fuc- it.

[Ferret]

Death stares man in the face, and all man can do is smile back !

[k00L.d00d]

This is Spartaaa!!!

[LightIdea]

This is Spartaaa!!!

Uhh... you live by that quote?!

[noPCtoday]

epic fail is epic win's mom.

great justice stands upon pedobears.

..

jokes aside, mine should be something like: live decent, roll hard.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

"F*** it, that'll do"

[White Cuban]

"You never know what you have till it's gone."

That quote stands out to me so much... when you loose something, only then do you really, really realize how much you depended on it.

that is so true

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

"No smoke without fire".

I held that very true and 100% believed it.

I was then casually accused of "forcing myself" upon a girl. OK, fine nobody believed her, she had a history of it. But I felt conflicted because I knew I had done no wrong, but then started questioning myself...

Then I realised, the fire was her!