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Old 08-19-2018, 09:38 AM
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Default Words of Wisdom

Does anyone have some words of wisdom to share? Here’s mine.

You learn nothing by talking, but, you can learn everything by listening. When you talk you are only repeating what you already know.
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Old 08-19-2018, 09:44 AM
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My grandmother had little or no formal education but valued it highly. She said to me many times in what English she knew.

"What you can carry in your head you wont have to carry on your back".
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Old 08-19-2018, 10:09 AM
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Here are a couple:

"The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one."

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep."

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do."

"Mother-love is the great, surging, divine current that plays forever through humanity."

"I wish to be simple, honest, natural, frank, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected ready to say, 'I do not know,' if so it be, to meet all men on an absolute equality to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unafraid and unabashed."

"And yet we know that the man who thinks only of himself acquires the distrust of the whole community. He sets in motion forces that work against him, and has thereby created a handicap that blocks him at every step."

"The essence of marriage is companionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for ninety-nine years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspirations."

"The home is a tryst - the place where we retire and shut the world out."

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do."

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

"No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day."

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

There is much more available.
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Old 08-19-2018, 10:11 AM
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It isn't how much you make, it's how much you spend.

Glad I learned that at a very early age
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Old 08-19-2018, 11:41 AM
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Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time.
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Old 08-19-2018, 11:45 AM
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Old 08-19-2018, 11:47 AM
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Some sage meditations from Cioran:

"Vestiges of humanity are still to be found only among the peoples who, outdistanced by history, are in no hurry to catch up."

"A certain proportion of dirt being indispensable to the organism (physiology and filth are interchangeable terms), the prospect of a worldwide cleanliness inspires a legitimate qualm."

"Since we are incapable of conquering our ills, it remains for us to cultivate them and to enjoy them."

Kafka adds:

"It is conceivable that Alexander the Great, in spite of the martial successes of his early days, in spite of the excellent army that he had trained, in spite of the power he felt within him to change the world, might have remained standing on the bank of the Hellespont and never have crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecision, not out of infirmity of will, but because of the mere weight of his own body."
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Old 08-19-2018, 02:30 PM
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I had a Drill Instructor at Ft. Knox Ky back in 1969 who would tell us regularly:

"Take the cotton out of your ears and stick it in your mouth and you MIGHT learn something.."

That's good advice right there...
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Old 08-19-2018, 02:47 PM
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Three come to mind. They are variations on some that have already been posted.

Business: The key to a successful business is not making money, it's wisely spending what you've made.
Personal: God gave you two ears and only one mouth. For best results, use them in that ratio. And never bring a knife to a gun fight.
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Old 08-19-2018, 03:05 PM
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Be the bridge that brings life safely - to the shores of love eternal.
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Old 08-19-2018, 03:19 PM
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Don't store up material riches, they won't do you any good in the next life.
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Old 08-19-2018, 03:28 PM
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"The only thing worse than getting old is not getting old."

I came up with that myself (I'm getting old!), but I googled it just now to see if anyone else had had such incredible sageness, and found it in a JAY-Z song.
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Old 08-19-2018, 03:44 PM
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Old 08-19-2018, 04:15 PM
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Default I wish you, enough.

I had a friend I'd never met. He was a fellow singer-guitarist on a yahoo list about Texas singer-songwriters. He was a lovely singer and humorist, and we liased a lot on and off list. He always signed his e-mails with this :

"I wish you enough". The more you think about this blessing the more it puts things in proportion.
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Old 08-19-2018, 05:05 PM
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Don’t be saddened by what you’ve lost, but instead enjoy what you still have.
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