Words to live by... Hey, what's your motto?

[pianonut]

excepting falling and breaking a hip, i don't think i'll be laid up for a few years.  when you have a family to take care of, you don't have time to get old.  if you focus on other people, work hard at what you do, and stay active and passionate...at least as you get older you won't get senile and all that stuff that comes with boredom.  good for your grandfather to stay active - and social!!  my grandmother was like him and just wouldn't quit.  she climbed the chilkoot trail three times (amongst other hikes) - found a boyfriend at like 75 (after her 2nd husband died) who followed her around like a schoolboy - and they had various assundry sailboating excursions where they were gone for days and no one knew where they went.   

i don't mean to brag, but i sit at the chiropractors (while my son gets adjustments due to heavy backpack - and we're learning to adjust the pack and the shoulder straps) with crossed legs.  then i go home and eat something that has butter in it.  i try to ride my bicycle down hillls very fast, and can manage to get up a hill almost as bicyclists half my age (albeit not as fast).  passed up an 'iron man' jersey the other day and said 'see you later iron man.'

if i die soon, it will not be natural occurance.   

[m1469]

Life is precious

[pianonut]

yes, the only thing that bothers me is my heart.  sometimes i think of a friend of my mom's that died at 42.  so, if i get light headed or dizzy, i try to drink some water and sit down.  heat is a stress for me.  but, as you get older you have to accustom yourself to all the different weathers or it is really bad.  when i lived in the desert - i went outside anyway (despite extreme lethargy when returning).  if you drink lots of water, at least you don't dehydrate.

motto:  if you can't take the heat, go in the shade
 

 

[Torp]

yes, the only thing that bothers me is my heart.

Well, that's a fairly critical piece of plumbing.

As for a motto, here's one that seems to be true for me lately....

Same ****, different pile.

[m1469]

Act naked. 

[pianonut]

you mean like orange juice?

[m1469]

LOL, yeah I guess so pianonut.


(I really like orange juice, it's sooo yummy... and it's really yummy if you freeze it and make a slushi)

[yamagal]

Whatever works

What it takes  (difficult to stick to)

Whatever gets the job done

Mine is similar:

       Whatever it takes.

Another good one --

       Never stop learning.

[Torp]

Act naked. 

Act?  How about get?

[Bob]

Things can always get worse.

Everything is a luxury.

[m1469]

Take at least one moment out of every day where you clear your mind of everything else, and truly cherish your loved ones in your very heart of hearts, very deliberately and one by one.

Act?  How about get?

he he, well, that too 

[BoliverAllmon]

winners are those who do what losers won't.

[keys]

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it”

Albert Einstein

[Bob]

All the world's a stage...

You've got nothing to worry about. It's all a circus. A three-ring circus... ...the whole world... is all a show business.

Win the crowd.

[pianonut]

bob, what about strength and honor?  you know that comes from prov. 31 about the virtuous woman.  of course, it goes for valor and strength for men, too. 

'but, above all, get wisdom..."   this is a hard saying, because usually the wise don't speak too much.  have you ever met a really smart person and had to keep the conversation kind of rolling - whilst they ponder each thing you say (as well as taking in extra-sensory information).

i don't know...maybe something inbetween.  not too stuffy, not too stupid - just basic english.  unless you speak spanish - in which case you can use more hand movements be just a bit more dramatic.  i think the french and italians take the cake.  no one seems to care if they ramble. 

[Bob]

Oh yeah...

Strength and honor!

[Bob]

Vomitting is very motivating.    Keep those keys clean and don't eat the food gifts.

[phil13]

The five things that are most important in life are music, women, food, women, and music.

Phil

[janne p.]

Just do it.

The best way of getting things done.

[xaos]

These four are good ones to live by:

Whatever you do in life doesn't matter.

There is no god.

There is no good.

Everyone and everything will eventually die.

What I dont understand is people who think "everything is possible". If everything were possible, then it would be possible that not everything was possible, which contradicts the given. And yeah, a lot of things are impossible, like me receiving 1 million dollars....yesterday.

[abell88]

All glory comes from daring to begin.

[dave santino]

My own personal motto, which I think is very relevant to music especially:

"Be yourself, then nobody can say you're doing it wrong."

Also, a fun one:

"Burn out, don't fade away."

Linked to that:

"The star that burns twice as bright, burns half as long."

That one worries me slightly, 'cos if it's true, I'm buggered, figureatively speaking.

[Bouter Boogie]

"I'm not like others.. I am much worse!"

[twinkletoesfaery]

Time is never time at all 

[c18cont]

"All them fritters is not cold...."

John

[Bob]

If you want it done right, do it yourself.

You have to put up with a lot of garbage when you do things the right way.

[m1469]

Do not entertain *dreams*...

...lucidly work toward and acheive your GOALS

[c18cont]

"Do unto others, as they're gonna do unto you...Only do it FIRST......"

John

[Skeptopotamus]

Growing old is mandatory.  Growing up is optional.

[Bob]

Anything IS possible.   (Such an inspiring and scary statement isn't it?)

There is nothing like hard work and discpline for getting things done.  There is also nothing like taking a break.

[Barbosa-piano]

 If god gives hard bread, he gives sharp teeth.
(theory of evolution according to the Bible... Just playing, an old German proverb)

Order and Progress.
(Brazil's Motto)

Ad astra per Aspera.- To the stars through difficulty.

Ad augusta per angusta.- To high places by narrow roads.

My motto as a message for terrorists: 
"He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear." - Claudius Claudianus

Mario Barbosa 

[thalberg]

Less is more

Moderation in all things

Let go and let God

[pianistimo]

wow.  i like those. 

life doesn't have to be so complicated...study musicology!   ?  ok  i made that one up.

[Bob]

When in doubt, ask Bernhard.

[Bouter Boogie]

"I'm not like others.. I am much worse!"

I've got another one: "Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you're not.."

[chopiabin]

So that a sanctuary can be erected, a sanctuary must be shattered - Nietzsche

Keep on truckin'!!! yeehaw - old southern saying

[Bob]

Music is about compromise, yet music does not compromise.

[allthumbs]

Words to live by??

How about "illigitimus non carborudum"  , roughly translated as "don't let the bastards wear you down."

Cheers

[m1469]

Always check your blind spot  

[randmc]

Those who hesitate will get left behind.

[sharon_f]

"Acknowledge and move on."

[Bob]

Look out for Number 1.

In whatever you do, make sure you benefit in some way.  Do not give your all unless you can afford to lose all that.

No good deed goes unpunished.

[dss]

Don't play it too fast, and not too slow---just half-fast.

[pipples]

"life is hard; after all it kills you"

Thats my somber motto of life

[dolcejen]

"He is no fool to give what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot, martyr for the sake of Christ, missionary to Ecuador.

[m1469]

Things could always be worse.... and if they could not get any worse, they can only get better 



ps- did somebody say this already ?  I am having de ja vu   (and I am too lazy to look through and check.. he he)

[pianistimo]

my thoughts exactly - especially re-reading what i said about breaking a hip.  at least it wasn't my hip.   

*motto for the day - pianists should never 'break a leg.'

[pianolearner]

"My only regret in life is that I am not someone else"

"You don't realise how good the bad was until things get worse"

[m1469]

yeah... how about :


"righty tighty, left loosey"


That's a real good one to remember 

[m1469]

"A chocolate truffle a day (keeps the fat away)" 



ps- just one, and that is the only treat you get