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What is your motto? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FatTony@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

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

Mine is: "Fear is shorter than regret."

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[–] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every day is a school day!

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[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Don't get paid in promises.

[–] Xkaliber@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What me worry?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Everything is temporary

Conversely, nothing is permanent

[–] RyanLiu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

“Fuck it.”

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

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Keep on keepin' on...

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather have the ugly truth than pretty lies.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of a line out of a book, don't remember which one, but it was along the lines of 'if you can't say yes, then answer anyway, because I'd rather die with the answer than live with the question'

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No murders. Everything else you can apologize for.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

In your deathbed you'll regret more the things you didn't do than what you did

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on glue.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 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)

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Laziness means getting to things only when necessary. It's just, sometimes necessary is much earlier than you'd think

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year 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.

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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year 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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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] NemoWuMing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Every day, in every way, I improve myself

[–] sga@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] coriza@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I like my coffee bitter, like life"

"If it tastes good It is not healthy"

Just to clarify, I am not a super healthy eater. I like to use this expression when the topic comes up to point out that there is no magic and is a miserable experience to lose weight and eat better, better to come to terms with it.

Yeah. I am not a super positive person.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To follow up with yours.

"It has to be worth the calories."

If you're going to eat unhealthy then make sure it's damn tasty and not sad eating.

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

Sums up my life pretty well.

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

All progress is progress

[–] waz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't be "that guy".

Depending on the situation, whatever "that guy" is will be different, but generally I try not to be "that guy". Very rarely "that guy" is a good guy, and then the whole philosophy breaks down, but most of the time that's not the case, and I am happy trying not to be "that guy".

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Don't give a shit."

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ColbysBrush@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Never trust anything with a beak. Except for crows; crows are bros.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ___@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Jack of all trades, master of one.

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