Two for me:
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The moment you feel tipsy it’s time to ease down. You have a stomach full of booze that’s going to make you more drunk even if you stop immediately.
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If you think people are good, you’re probably right and if you think people are bad, you’re probably right.
People are good IMO.
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the grass is greener where you water it
I like this one a lot.
Maya Angelou: ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
This has helped me learn nearly every physical skill I know.
When someone gives you a compliment, just accept it.
Paraphrasing from Terrence McKenna.
“The one thing that seems constant through all the years is that… nothing lasts. Nothing lasts. Which is good news for some but will bum out others. Your happiness is slowly turning into something else, while your sadness will also become something else.”
Two TV quotes go through my head every day.
Bill Nye: Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t.
Doctor Who: Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.
What if you meet a Nazi?
Punching Nazis in the face is a kindness to those they victimize.
Kindly punch them in the face. Kindly.
They actually do meet Hitler at one point in Doctor Who. IIRC they can’t kill him for time travel (and probably also family TV) reasons, but they do punch him in the face and lock him in a cupboard.
Kill them with kindness.
Both quotes refer to humans. Nazis are sub human. Monsters get what they get.
“Stairs are lots of little floors which makes it easier to get between the bigger floors” - Philomena Cunk
“The good things won’t be as good and the bad things won’t be as bad as the mind lead you to believe.” (Unknown source)
Cunk is likely the greatest philosopher of our time.
My experience is that the good things are often much better than i expect and it’s my thoughts that make the bad worse.
Don’t commit more than one crime at a time
It’s not secret if two people know it.
I was asleep alone at home.Also “two can keep a secret, if one is dead.”
Don’t write down your crimes
Don’t write anything down you don’t want everyone to read.
Hahaha exactly! So good.
My friend calls that - Don’t be stupid while you’re being stupid.
Can someone provide a couple of practical examples?
If you’ve got something illegal in your car, make sure you don’t have a broken tail light.
If your license is expired, don’t speed.
Don’t Jay walk while high.
Basically the cops catch you on the less bad thing, and that’s how they are able to catch you on the second thing. They need a reasonable suspicion to stop you.
I see, it’s about flying under the radar if you’re up to something illegal. That makes a lot of sense for something like having weed in the car.
Don’t admit to killing an animal to the sibling that records all phone calls.
I live by this one too. It also makes me think of the Whren v. United States case
You choose which emotions to empower and which to discourage. I think Buddha said it?
Basically, you really can choose to focus on the good parts of life/an event and you don’t have to let the negatives consume you.
Be a good person, not a nice person.
Never hold onto anything so tightly that you can’t let go.
“if you have a problem, you can either solve it or you can’t. If you can fix it, no problem! If you can’t, no point in worrying about it!” -from a cartoon sheep from Garfield and Friends, turns out this is writing a bodhisattva.
I’m shit at implementing this wisdom but it’s still pretty good.
very similar to my beloved, the serenity prayer. one of the few pieces of Christianity that I hold near and dear to my heart.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”
When someone shows you who they are, believe it the first time.
Also, if everyone you meet is nice, it’s because you’re a nice person. Conversely, if you think everyone’s an asshole, you’re the asshole.
Your second one ties right into my second one in the OP :)
The first one, I have a rule: I don’t mind if you’re a cunt to me occasionally. We’re all a cunt occasionally. As long as you come back to me and apologise it shows me that you’ve considered your behaviour and who knows what caused it.
If you don’t, I’ll cut you out of my life like the fat off a pork chop.
In regards to having children. “You’re going to fuck them up in some way no matter what you do, just try to minimize it”
Expanding on the second point: we are what we focus on. if you are practicing to be the type of person who believes people are bad you look for the evidence of bad in people. “Everyone lets me down”. To do this requires discounting and avoiding and ignoring the good that people do.
This means if you do this sort of thing you’re also not that great of a person.
Just imagine being on the other side of it: think of all the nice things you might do for such a person and got overlooked because they focus on complaining about all the bad people in their life all just to prove people are bad.
