Words you live by?

[Praxis1452]

Paraphrased.

If you fear death you can't live life.

 

[Pepsei]

two chicks at once....

 

[her209]

"Buy low, sell high."

 

[Slammy1]

You can judge a man's character better by how he treats his enemies than how he treats his friends.

 

[compnovice]

Kick ass or Kiss ass...

 

[pyonir]

F*ck it.

 

[datalink7]

Winners never quit, and quitters never win. But those who never quit and never win are fvcking idiots.

 

[GZeus]

"No matter how good or how bad any situation is, it won't last forever. So restrain yourself and act like you've been there before."
- Grandfather (I miss him!)

 

[Mucho]

Bullsh1t baffles brains

 

[SmoochyTX]

Fvck them before they fvck me.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: Ticks
"The possibilities are endless when you have no direction."

too many choices freeze u in your tracks

 

[Maximilian]

Respect mai authoritah!

 

[hiredgoons]

Originally posted by: drum
better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

It takes one to know one

Seriously, though, this passage from Cryptonomicon is pretty good (albeit long):

"Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo--which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead."

 

[OVerLoRDI]

"Just relax everything will be alright."

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
"If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you were bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, but satisfied to live now according to nature, speaking heroic truth in every word which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no man able to prevent this."

Sounds Stoic.

 

[Stumps]

"what we do in life, echo's in eternity"

 

[chowmein]

"play the game like you got nothing to lose"

 

[Canai]

Ka like a wheel
Ka like the wind

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

If yer gonna fall... fall forward.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Stumps
"what we do in life, echo's in eternity"

Thank you, Russell Crowe.

 

[Ryan]

-Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it would become a universal law.
-Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
-Act as though you were through your maxims a law-making member of a kingdom of ends.

Quite a few words, but they work for me

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Desiderata...

Although I'm reminded by something the CO of my last ship used to say... "If it flies, floats, or fvcks, rent it". Pretty fvcked up.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Orsorum
"If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract you, but keeping your divine part pure, as if you were bound to give it back immediately; if you hold to this, expecting nothing, but satisfied to live now according to nature, speaking heroic truth in every word which you utter, you will live happy. And there is no man able to prevent this."

Sounds Stoic.

That's Marcus Aurelius for you.

Some more: "Keep these three thoughts handy:
- First, do not act without a purpose or contrary to the demands of justice. All outward circumstances, remember, happens either by chance or by Providence; and you cannot argue with chance, and you can't haul Providence into court.
- Second, think of how every creature grows from a sperm cell to its first breath of life, and from its first breath to the surrender of its last. Think of the elements which came together to form it and into which it dissolves.
- Third, imagine if you were able to soar above the clouds and look down upon the whole scope of human affairs how trifling they would seem in relation to the vast expanse of space and the hosts of heaven. No matter how often you took flight, you would see the same things, so monotonous, so fleeting. What grounds for pride are these?"

 

[z0mb13]

Better be lucky than good

If it's too good to be true..

 

[chr6]

ssh its me casper