Words to live by

[JerseyWendy]

you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.
_ my dad.
don't worry about what others are doing, just worry about what you're doing.
_another from dad.

LOL, Heather, the first one is something my dad would have said as well.

 

[Niner10Tango]

Don't go around saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.. Mark Twain
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain102859.html

 

[birdbrainzz4me]

LOL, Heather, the first one is something my dad would have said as well. [/QUOTE]

hahaha! well i guess it might be a german thing maybe. my dad's side of the family is german and polish, but you never know it could be polish too!

 

[WharfRat]

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!
- Mother Teresa

 

[WharfRat]

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Birdlover11]

Love this thread !

Douglas Adams
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Jim Carrey
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

This DEFINATLY relates to us bird freaks, take that mom and dad !

Karen Horney
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

 

[kendrafitz]

My absolute favorite. It's the one I try to live by and teach my kids the same:

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

 

[tab_xo]

I heard this one yesterday:
Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Now do not misunderstand me, danger is very real. But fear is a choice...

and a bit of Lord of the Rings :
All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you..

 

[sonja]

My favorites:

~If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
Chief Seattle

~Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

~Your true character is how you act when you won't get caught.
This one comes across as a bit of a joke, but I think it is quite true. Do you always act to your highest standards, even if no one is watching? I try to live by this, even though I know I fall short.

 

[Yapallocelotl]

" I Netzahualcoyotl ask myself do we live here on this earth forever?, no not here forever only a short time here. Even gold breaks, jade shatters, and the precious ketzal feather tears, no not forever here , only a short time , only an instant here on this earth" Huey Tlatoani Netzahualcoyotlzin, (Great speaker Fasting Coyote)

 

[Kalidasa]

"Tomorrow is another day"

-Scarlett Ohara in Gone with the Wind

 

[Birdlover11]

This is just what I found ,

" Money can't buy you happiness , but it's more comfortable to cry on a Mercedes than a bicycle .... "

 

[sodakat]

Most stress is caused by three things: money, family and family with no money -- Maxine