I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…
You can always have more but you can’t have less
This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.
On the pitch is off the streets
This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers
Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.
“Never let perfect get in the way of good enough.”
If you wait on the “perfect” time to do something, or the “perfect” opportunity, you may find it never comes. Make the most of what’s in front of you.
It’s not just good…it’s good enough
“I’ve always enjoyed an advantage over people who don’t read the instructions.” -My Dad.
Folks, life doesn’t always come with instructions, but when it does… read them.
Buy a plunger before you need a plunger
And
Win small, lose small
This last one I heard applied to backing up a trailer, but it works in many corners of life.
Got this one from a fortune cookie. What can I say, if it’s good it’s good.
“Friends are those who, when you’ve made a fool of yourself, don’t think you’ve done a permanent job of it.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”
When you have a task, no matter what it is, it doesn’t actually matter too much if you do a good job or a bad job. What’s important is that you do a job. Don’t give up on something because it isn’t perfect or because you don’t have all the answers; just do it anyways. It doesn’t matter if it’s shitty or if it’s incomplete, it’s still infinitely better than doing nothing at all.
From my ex-father-in-law
Trust not what the snake will do, but what it can do.
This comes to mind while driving
A bad driver never misses their turn
Finally, my daily motivator (on my lock screen)
This too shall pass
If not me, then who? If not now, then when?
…as an adult, you realize that much of the time, no one is going to come save you.
Never push a glacier
If someone is unfairly criticizing someone or a group of people it is only because they feel inadequate in some way.
“Nothing good lasts, nothing bad lasts. The only constant is change.”
We think we are approaching death gradually, and will die one day. That’s not true. We are dying every single day, every single minute. The time in our life that has already passed, now belongs to death… It’s not that our life is short, it’s just that we waste a lot of it… We may leave this life this very moment, let that decide how we will go about with our stuff today.
- Seneca / Marcus Aurelius
This.Does the Bible actually say anything about the treatment of non-humans? I also seem to recall many instances in the Bible that sanction slavery, genocide, and war. This seems more like a summary of what people want the Bible to say, even though it doesn’t.
Verses in Exodus 21, particularly verses 2-11, regulate slavery among Israelites, allowing Hebrew men to serve for six years, but also permitting permanent servitude for foreign slaves and stipulating rules for selling daughters. If an Israelite buys a Hebrew slave, the servant serves six years and goes free in the seventh. However, if the servant loves his master and chooses to stay, his ear is pierced, and he serves for life. A man could sell his daughter as a servant. She was not freed like male servants. If she did not, please her master, he had to let her be redeemed (bought back by family) and could not sell her to foreigners; if he took another wife, her basic needs (food, clothing, marital rights) could not be reduced. If a master beats a slave (male or female) and they die under their hand, the master is punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, the master is not punished, as the slave is considered their property.
In some sense the bible is a prolonged argument on the mechanics of butchering animals and how it relates to humans.
Burnt offerings, red heifers, hundreds of years of a lamb sacrifice tied to the temple, the Christos becoming the lamb of God, the Christos on the cross as the serpent on the staff, the binding of Issac and all that jazz.
In the book of Samuel wiping out the animals is a feature of genocide: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
I’m not an expert by any means but generally the Bible says that animals are on earth to serve man (or something similar like, there for man’s use).
Never agree to do something next week you wouldn’t do now
Of course you should. This allows you to say in a text or on the phone that you’re not doing it, instead of to that person’s face.
Yeah but also why do something now if it can wait until next week.
Want to come help me move next week?
Want to go to suchband such party next week?
I feel if I’m not excited or interested now i certainly won’t be then.
All I end up with is a whole week of dread etc waiting for it
And why not delay indefinitely that which can be put off until next week?
people don’t remember what you say or do nearly as much as they remember the way that you make them feel.
thanks turd burglar
After everything is said and done, there’s a lot more said than done.
Most people will talk about doing something rather than doing it.
