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or, words you live by.
Lately I've been trying to adopt "slow down." I speak before I think, I jump to conclusions, I go through motions without waiting to think about consequences or end results or I'm just plain sloppy and trying to get through something as quickly as possible so it comes out wrecked.
What are your personal mottos, or something that should be your personal motto/words you live by?
I got my personal motto from a Fiona Apple song:
Be kind to me, or treat me mean--I make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
I also take my motto from a song:
Get up, get on up,
Get up, get on up
Stay on the scene, get on up
Like a sex machine, get on up
Helped me through a lot of hard times.
Hard times, eh? :colbert:
Life only sucks as much as you let it. :monster:
Yes, such as when I overcame a crippling leg injury. :doublecolbert:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
When I read the word 'Get' I expected the lyrics to beQuote:
Originally Posted by Harle-y Davidson
Get on up when you're down,
Baby, take a good look around,
I know it's not much, but it's okay,
We'll keep on moving on anyway
I feel dirty :|
Jeff, you are a disgrace.
Remove me from this world, before I decapitate myself with a sponge
keep being awesome. i try to every day.
just the tip
I can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Pike's motto: "10 more minutes."Quote:
Originally Posted by PikeI can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
Crack is whack.
More like "10 more turns"Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa's BoobsPike's motto: "10 more minutes."Quote:
Originally Posted by PikeI can only hear this in the Pandaren voice from WoW. I'm sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
My own personal motto could be seen as one of 2 things, both strike similar chords in me but one is a little too long to be called a motto even if it is going to be my first ever tattoo. The first is 3 lines from a song by Rise Against, pretty much everyone who knows me is going to know this already but for those who don't and for my post to make sense:
The second is a speech given by Sir Winston Churchill in his later years, it was delivered to new students at Oxford and is probably remarkable for being one of the shortest speeches delivered by any politician or former world leader at any point in history (other than the memorable response of the Spartans to the Persians when they refused the Persian offer of "If" of course) the speech reads as follows:Quote:
We've all been sorry,
we've all been hurt
but how we survive is what makes us who we are
the second is much shorter and more motto like it's certainly words you could fit in to a crest or coat of arms. The former is more like a proverb to live by.Quote:
Never, ever, ever, give up
Don't have a personal one since I personally find it silly to stand by one slogan or a slogan at all. I just tried to look up a family motto, but all I could find in the immediate lineage were coat of arms :(
I'll just do without.
"You don't need a reason to help people." - Zidane Tribal
Yeah, I'm about the same as Faris when it comes to mottos. I don't exactly have one, but if I did, I'm sure it'll be something like, "Eh, just let it be."
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
Prententitus Latinus Pissjokinum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
Yeah gonna have to agree with Steve here; my personal motto is "One More Turn".
I live my life by this motto:
"Circumstances cannot affect the affection."
"It's not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain"
As of today...
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"
Honestly, I should probably try this one but it's difficult when my brain doesn't understand the meaning of the word slow down. Simply keeping my mind from jumping haphazardly from one thought to the next as quickly as possible is difficult. Just seems to race all of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shorty
As for ones I actually try to follow, lately I suppose "just keep swimming" may apply. Though it doesn't seem to be nearly as uplifting as when Dory says it.
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."
It does help to imagine Ellen saying it.
any hole's a hole
You can never have too much lube.
Well, you can... but it's better to have too much than too little.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rantz
Also, it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it; I guess I should start carrying around lube.
Bitches ain't trout but hoes and tricks...
cba
"smurf bitches, get money, smoke trees."
-- Crystal
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting their own battle." - Plato
"It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
Shorty and Clo, you're cool. Everyone else sucks at this.
smurf it dude, let's go bowling
If at first you don't succeed, give up because you're a failure.
Fortes fortuna juvat
And
If it smells like trout and looks like trout it is probably trout.
Proper breathing is the key tofirebendingsucess
Illegitimi non carborundum
Just get drunk and do it.
But I don't really have any words that I live by. Maybe I should spend my free time hunting for some inspiring sentences.