Your Rules For A Good Life ??
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Re: Your Rules For A Good Life ??
" There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."
And, "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Both from Kurt Vonnegut.
And, "I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Both from Kurt Vonnegut.
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Don't take anything personally. Nothing anyone else does or says has anything to do with you. It's just a projection of their own minds.
Don't make assumptions. Ask questions and express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
Be charitable with your thoughts. I.e. - whenever possible, interpret things in the most charitable and benevolent way possible. Avoid, if possible, impugning the motives or thoughts or intentions of other people.
Do the best you can.
Try to keep your word.
Be skeptical, and listen/understand others.
Don't make assumptions. Ask questions and express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
Be charitable with your thoughts. I.e. - whenever possible, interpret things in the most charitable and benevolent way possible. Avoid, if possible, impugning the motives or thoughts or intentions of other people.
Do the best you can.
Try to keep your word.
Be skeptical, and listen/understand others.
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Re: Your Rules For A Good Life ??
Brian Peacock wrote:I only have two rules:
Eat plenty of carrots.
Never have a wank on the bus.
1. Try not to be a dick.
2. Keep learning new stuff.
3. Never grow up, never surrender.
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Never do tomorrow what you can't do the day after.
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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I'd post my real rule for a good life, except I really blood suck at upholding them myself.
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There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
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Re: Your Rules For A Good Life ??
1 never take tips from stand up comics
2 wear a bike helmet when needed...when past 70, at all times
3 the meek shall..get something, not much...because "they" need consumers
4 never worry about who "they" are...they are not you
2 wear a bike helmet when needed...when past 70, at all times
3 the meek shall..get something, not much...because "they" need consumers
4 never worry about who "they" are...they are not you
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Re: Your Rules For A Good Life ??
Treat others like you want to be treated.
Be of service.
Forgive yourself and others.
Take lots of walks.
Be of service.
Forgive yourself and others.
Take lots of walks.
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I have resolved to walk every day when I have retired. Hopefully, I won't get lost...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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What about "Fight dyslexia"? You misspellt "walks".Joe wrote:Treat others like you want to be treated.
Be of service.
Forgive yourself and others.
Take lots of walks.
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Same applies to you.JimC wrote:I have resolved to walk every day when I have retired. Hopefully, I won't get lost...
And I am fairly sure you won't get lost in your own underpants.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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Not everybody puts wanks in their rules for a good lifeHermit wrote:What about "Fight dyslexia"? You misspellt "walks".Joe wrote:Treat others like you want to be treated.
Be of service.
Forgive yourself and others.
Take lots of walks.
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I'd heard reading too much here would make you go blind, but misspelling, that's serious!rachelbean wrote:Not everybody puts wanks in their rules for a good lifeHermit wrote:What about "Fight dyslexia"? You misspellt "walks".Joe wrote:Treat others like you want to be treated.
Be of service.
Forgive yourself and others.
Take lots of walks.
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"Wisdom requires a flexible mind." - Dan Carlin
"If you vote for idiots, idiots will run the country." - Dr. Kori Schake
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