Doesn’t have to be a life motto. Any motto, for any application.
Mine is: “Fear is shorter than regret.”
“Be excellent to each other”.
Show some compassion, be a bro, care about other people. Maybe we can make society a bit better; one person, one act of kindness, at a time.
Party on, dude
And party on dude! I came here to say this. It’s such an easy tenant to live by. The world would be a better place if everyone really took it to heat.
An easy tenant to live by would be a good neighbor.
An easy tenet to live by is a simple guiding principle.Thanks not sure if it was the dyslexia or the autocorrect which got me that time.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw
oh man, I love this. Thanks !
Remember you will die. Not as a fear but simply as a reminder.
Memento mori
Et in Arcadia ego
Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, you’re a mile away! And you’ve got his shoes!
Paraphrased from Forrest Gump.
“Well, I’ve come this far. Might as well keep going.”
It’s great, because you just lie to yourself about the starting point of any task, and it doesn’t seem so bad.
If I’ve survived from birth until now, then I guess I can survive doing the dishes.I was just about to give up on dishes thank you kind stranger
if you want to achieve nothing, form a committee
I don’t know if I agree with that, let’s go around the room again, all in favour? /s
Wait…wait… we need somebody from legal on this call
aye
“Anything that isn’t nothing”
Helps me push through when executive dysfunction hits. Getting outside for even just a little bit is a whole lot better than staying inside while telling myself I’m going to run 3 miles, for example
That’s a good one. A few others that help with my executive dysfunction are:
- “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” (It’s better to do something than to obsess over trying for the impossible goal of ‘perfection’.)
- “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.” (This one helps especially with art and things I enjoy but struggle to do if I’m not instantly great at them.)
- “Laziness does not exist.” (This was inspired by a Medium article I read years ago which explained there is always an underlying cause of procrastination. Mental or physical ill health issues, uncertainty about the task, fear of failure, etc. When I am struggling to move forward, I now look for that reason and can begin to remove the barrier.)
“Some is better than none.” -My motto throughout college.
Usually I was stressed by the number of chapters I had to read, or pages I had to write. Instead of shutting down and not doing anything, I would tell myself to just read a single page or write a paragraph because any amount of work done is better than nothing.
Now I apply it to work and chores.
“Don’t say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn’t be prepared to say it to their face”
I like this one, but looking at it from a different angle I say nice things about people behind their backs pretty regularly that I absolutely would not be prepared to say to their face cuz toxic masculinity. Anybody have tips on how I can keep working on the opposite of this problem? 😭
Smack em on the ass and say “you’re looking good today my dude.”
Nothin’, what’s a motto with you?
Intelligence does not protect you from stupidity.
Be morally better than average. If you justify being bad by saying everyone else is doing it, you’re not helping the downward spiral. Because bad people and people with no choice make things worse on average.
life has no meaning, so find one.
i’m an absurdist :]
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Brings to mind the bene gesserit litany against fear:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I often pair with:
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
Which is a nice allegory for most any chemical stimulant (coffee).
Everything is true, nothing is permitted.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
The Benne gesserit is my second favourite quote.
