I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…

You can always have more but you can’t have less

This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.

On the pitch is off the streets

This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.

The axe forgets but the tree remembers

Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.

  • BranBucket@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    “I’ve always enjoyed an advantage over people who don’t read the instructions.” -My Dad.

    Folks, life doesn’t always come with instructions, but when it does… read them.

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    4 hours ago

    Buy a plunger before you need a plunger

    And

    Win small, lose small

    This last one I heard applied to backing up a trailer, but it works in many corners of life.

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    Got this one from a fortune cookie. What can I say, if it’s good it’s good.

    “Friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t think you’ve done a permanent job of it.”

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    From my ex-father-in-law

    Trust not what the snake will do, but what it can do.

    This comes to mind while driving

    A bad driver never misses their turn

    Finally, my daily motivator (on my lock screen)

    This too shall pass

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    “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”

    When you have a task, no matter what it is, it doesn’t actually matter too much if you do a good job or a bad job. What’s important is that you do a job. Don’t give up on something because it isn’t perfect or because you don’t have all the answers; just do it anyways. It doesn’t matter if it’s shitty or if it’s incomplete, it’s still infinitely better than doing nothing at all.

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    If someone is unfairly criticizing someone or a group of people it is only because they feel inadequate in some way.

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    After everything is said and done, there’s a lot more said than done.

    Most people will talk about doing something rather than doing it.

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    We think we are approaching death gradually, and will die one day. That’s not true. We are dying every single day, every single minute. The time in our life that has already passed, now belongs to death… It’s not that our life is short, it’s just that we waste a lot of it… We may leave this life this very moment, let that decide how we will go about with our stuff today.

    • Seneca / Marcus Aurelius
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      Does the Bible actually say anything about the treatment of non-humans? I also seem to recall many instances in the Bible that sanction slavery, genocide, and war. This seems more like a summary of what people want the Bible to say, even though it doesn’t.

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    10 hours ago

    If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

    …as an adult, you realize that much of the time, no one is going to come save you.

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    Never run when you can walk, never walk when you can stand, never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down. If you lie down, sleep.