What Is Your Favorite Quote or Motto to Live By?

[brian64]

Life is too complex for a single quote, so here are a few:
“A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection—not an invitation for hypnosis.” -- Umberto Eco
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." – Voltaire
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." - Albert Einstein
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” – George Orwell
“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James

 

[wilson34]

wow fantastic brian64

 

[tbradsim1]

We have met the Enemy and they is us. POGO

 

[dochudson]

Don't get mad, get even

 

[elguapo]

It's difficult to pick just one, so here are a few. The last one is my favorite just because it's brilliant.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. - Mae West
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. ― Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead

That, too.

 

[lasttango]

I don't necessarily live my life by this one... but I do like it a lot... can you guess what it's from?
"As the music came to its climax, I could viddy myself very clear, running and running on like very light and mysterious feet, carving the whole face of the creeching world with my cut throat britva. I was cured all right."

 

[lasttango]

I do aspire to live my life by this one... tall order... but I admire it a lot:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
TR

 

[warren]

It's not the size of the man in the fight but, the size of the fight in the man.
Take a man's money, give him value for it. In other words, "Ride for the brand."

 

[pipesmokingtom]

 

[thomasw]

Finem respice.
Roughly translated, "consider the end, the 'telos'." It could just be a pragmatic viewpoint or expressing something more transcendent, i.e., the aim of life or about death etc...

 

[Chasing Embers]

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun." Billy Joel

 

[sablebrush52]

Do unto others before they do unto you.

 

[madox07]

Vive memor leti ... it has been my family motto inscribed underneath our crest. Sometimes I want so much to forget it, to run away from it, but there are constant reminders of its validity. I guess it can translate "I live remembering death"

 

[ahmadothman]

"Carpe Diem" seems the most fitting one to live by.. It doesn't conflict with the ever changing nature of life and yet provides some motivation whatever may come your way

 

[didache]

These things really do need to be in Latin.
Here's mine: Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
It means: God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Mike :roll:

 

[condorlover1]

Lifes a pitch and then you close! :rofl:

 

[fluffie666]

I want to get my kicks in before the whole shithouse goes up in flames

 

[jpmcwjr]

C'mon, me droogies! (a bit of the Clockwork for pst)
Good lord, this is a depressing thread.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I may not know karate, but I know crazy. And, I ain't afraid to use it.