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What is your motto? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Doesn't have to be a life motto. Any motto, for any application.

Mine is: "Fear is shorter than regret."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Everything is temporary

Conversely, nothing is permanent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every day is a school day!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

“Fuck it.”

I do say this a lot, so I guess this motto.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Dont break the weekend rules

  • Do NOT add to the population
  • Do NOT subtract from the population
  • Do not ever do anything that will have you end up in the newspaper, hospital or jail.
    • If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.

Also dont do anything you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Never be afraid of paramedics, they aren't there to rat you out. They just want to know what they need to do to make you better/not worse. They hate paperwork as much as anyone, and a dead patient is a ton of paperwork.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Every day, in every way, I improve myself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"Give them a hand and they'll want the arm."

In other words while it's okay to help people you need to be careful and impose some limits here and there, as people are naturally greedy and will burden you for their own benefit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That's the motto (Mhm) Drop a few bills and pop a few champagne bottles (Mhm) Throwin' that money like you just won the lotto (Mhm)

  • tiesto & ava max

JK. In all seriousness, I don't really have one XD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"You can't find the truth, you pick the lie you like best."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What's wrong with "I don't know"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Live hard, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can probably take care of the first two but my ugly ass can't handle the 3rd

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"Life is simultaneously too large and small, it is not worth spending time planning it"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"Will this matter in 6 months?" If not, don't waste your mental energy on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Any man can grab a tiger by it's balls, but it takes a real man to squeeze.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"I'm just a monkey lookin' at a monolith." said in the strong southern drawl possible.

Very good for technical situations where I'm stumped.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Take it sleazy! Maximum effort all the time has only ever gotten me exhausted and useless. Save your strength for when you need it.

(at least, that works for me)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Don't get paid in promises.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Schlimmer geht immer"

It can always be worse.

Not really my motto but a phrase I find myself thinking often in the last couple months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In English this is often seen as a curse, like don't say that, now it will get worse! Like you're daring the gods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What me worry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Safety first.

It's boring, and not good advice for living a life or making big decisions, but in the day-to-day it reminds me to be careful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unless you are a baker, then it's "Pastry first"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Probably something like "It's probably not as bad as you think" which applies to people, situations, difficulty of talks and a lot other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Live fast eat ass

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You do the best you can with what you've got.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

All progress is progress

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Too strange to live, too rare to die by HST.

Sums up my life pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Life's too serious for me to take it seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"Follow the money." and/or "Money is fungible."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"Don't give a shit."

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