Don't sweat the little things

starbelgrade

I read that here on Boards a few weeks ago - someone posted it as a reply & for some reason it stuck with me. I've even used it (in my head) as a device to not sweat about things that really aren't that important. It's a great motto - and I don't really do mottos, but it did stick with me. Possibly because sometimes, I do sweat the little things.

Not that I'll ever admit it though.

So do you have any little mottos or refrains that have stuck with you - either recently or long term? And if so, where'd you get them from?

Hasmunch

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do"

I got it on a postcard on my first day of college, its a quote from Mark Twain and something i've always thought of when making decisions in my life

Logical Fallacy

"The first time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk, the second time someone calls you a horse you punch him the mouth, the third time someone calls you a horse go buy a ****ing saddle".

It's from some film or other, can't remember which but it makes a degree of sense with regard to listening to the people around you.

EGAR

*Never trouble trouble til trouble troubles you.*

Old guy said it to me in the pub and he was effing right.

mikom

Good fences make good neighbors.
A truer word never said.

starbelgrade

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

"The first time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk, the second time someone calls you a horse you punch him the mouth, the third time someone calls you a horse go buy a ****ing saddle".

It's from some film or other, can't remember which but it makes a degree of sense with regard to listening to the people around you.

The Lucky Number Slevin was the film.

Not a great film, but had some good lines & some great leading men... Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Ben Kinglsey and then the very beautiful Lucy Liu.

And Josh Harnett too, who I hate to admit, is an incredibly handsome young dude, (The bastard) :mad:

randylonghorn

"Life is far too serious to be taken seriously."

- My old history teacher!



"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

- Longfellow.



"Keep your powder dry and your weapon wet!"

-RLH

Valentina

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Harry Angstrom

Hasmunch wrote: »

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do"

If you spent your life savings on buying shares in Anglo Irish Bank, you might have other views about this

I prefer the quote from the economist John Maynard Keynes, "In the long run, everybody dies".

It kind of sums up everything about life.

shannon_tek

Try everything in life once

Esel

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

KeithM89_old

'Youre a failure, your life is a waste and youll amount to nothing' - Dad



Luckily he wasnt talking about me though...

starbelgrade

randylonghorn wrote: »

"Life is far too serious to be taken seriously."

- My old history teacher!

My Dad used to say that all the time... it was a slightly different version, but the same idiom... "don't take life too seriously".

I suppose that's why the "don't sweat the little things" quote had so much resonance with me... it reminded me of my Dad - who I haven't seen in a long, long time.

(sad face)

Logical Fallacy

starbelgrade wrote: »

The Lucky Number Slevin was the film.

Not a great film, but had some good lines & some great leading men... Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Ben Kinglsey and then the very beautiful Lucy Liu.

And Josh Harnett too, who I hate to admit, is an incredibly handsome young dude, (The bastard) :mad:

Nice one!

Disleksic

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after. I originally meant to post this two days ago of course but I couldn't be arsed.

crazypanda

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia


Everything always turns out right in the end. If it doesn't, then it's not the end.

- Courtesy of a bathroom wall,

later12

When I want to concentrate really hard in the gym or when I used to compete, and could feel my legs going numb or my body getting tired, I would repeat the words 'an engine, an engine' in my head repeatedly.

I don't know why it worked for me, but it was a major psychological boost. I would have a monochrome image in my head of this steam locomotive with a big engine and railroads being struck with iron by a dark skinned railroad worker.

I even use these words today in my workplace when I want to really focus hard and achieve something. That's actually a bit cringey in a Ricky Gervais/ The Office kind of way. But it's the internet, I'm anonymous! (I hope)

mikemac

" Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Think twice, speak once.
Definitely in meetings in work the people who talk the most, always talk the most ****e.
It's the people who consider what they say and speak rarely are worth listening to

Chuck Stone

Different strokes for different folks.

I love that saying me ^^.

d.anthony

''Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fúcked by dicks. But dicks also fúck asshóles. Asshóles that just want to shít on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with asshóles their way. But the only thing that can fúck a asshóle is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fúck too much or fúck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shít that they become asshóles themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from asshóles. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fúck this asshóle we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shít.''

Super-Rush

Can't someone else do it?

starbelgrade

d.anthony wrote: »

''Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fúcked by dicks. But dicks also fúck asshóles. Asshóles that just want to shít on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with asshóles their way. But the only thing that can fúck a asshóle is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fúck too much or fúck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shít that they become asshóles themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from asshóles. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fúck this asshóle we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shít.''

Not Tarantinos finest moment, in fairness.

Equium

When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.

Esel

Equium wrote: »

When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.

What's the matter with you? You're screwing like a Chinaman!

scoll

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The fact that it's a quote from Harry Potter makes it seem silly, but it's one of my favorites!

Nulty

"I haven't failed - I've found 10,000 ways that don't work"

Thomas Edison

Sheep Shagger

Good summary here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

jive

Live the dream and be kind to people who aren't c*nts. Be extra c*ntish to people who are c*nts. Life is too short to try to please others, do what you want to do because it doesn't matter when you're dead anyway. You will be forgotten.

Life is like a game where there is no end e.g. Football Manager or Sims. It can't be completed. Satisfy yourself and try share it with someone who enjoys life the same way you do. Who cares if you piss a few people off or if you fail, like I said, you will die and you will be forgotten anyway. Do what you want to do because when you're an old shrivelled raisin you won't be able to do shít. You have a very small time to live how you want, so just do it and not be a sap.

Edit:
Also as already stated don't worry about the little things or worry about anything other than yourself or those close to you. The world/society is already set and there is fúck all you can do about it. Want to save Africa? Tough shít, you won't. Want to save the animals? Tough shít, you want. The world is made so that the rich remain rich and the poor remain poor. You will never be rich, you might be well off - but not rich. Actually becoming rich is _extremely_ rare. Don't worry about material things because like I just said, you will not be rich. Don't believe everything that you read or everything that anyone tells you. You may as well enjoy yourself because the more you know the more depressing this shíthole gets, it's all about wealth and that's the bottom line. Don't work too hard because what's the point - nobody has ever looked back and said they'd rather work more, if they did then they were dumb. You can work more and get your measly money while most of it goes to the government and in this country most of it will go elsewhere.

Ignorance is bliss, live the dream and have the craic. Don't worry about arseholes, enjoy yourself and piss a few of them off on the way.

flutterflye

I like these ones;

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

"Don't let the sun shine on tomorrow, before it rises today"

"I alone can do it, but I cannot do it alone"

"If not now, then when?"

"Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you'll look back and realise that they were the big things"

TheBunk1

My motto is, never say never!

Which makes it extremely difficult to tell people my motto....

Sinfonia

starbelgrade wrote: »

Not Tarantinos finest moment, in fairness.

Anyway (in a similar vein to the 'go for it' attitudes of some of the above) :

"Nervous? In 5 billion years the sun will burn out and nothing you did will matter. Feel better?"

from ****MyDadSays iirc

Both terrifyingly bleak positively motivating. A wonderful dichotomy.

jive

Sinfonia wrote: »

Anyway (in a similar vein to the 'go for it' attitudes of some of the above) :

"Nervous? In 5 billion years the sun will burn out and nothing you did will matter. Feel better?"

from ****MyDadSays iirc

Both terrifyingly bleak positively motivating. A wonderful dichotomy.

As if we'll be around for that long

crazypanda

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

- J.K. Rowling


The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

- Robert Frost

Lapin

Take your points and the goals will come.







Try telling that to a Clare hurling fan this morning :pac::pac::pac:

James T Kirk

"Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice... Well you can't get fooled again."

willow tree

so many inspiring people who have said interesting things but its me mate bill said 'to thine own self be true'... not an easy thing to do but when i do trust myself and ignore the haters im always happier in myself:D

Resi12

jive wrote: »

Live the dream and be kind to people who aren't c*nts. Be extra c*ntish to people who are c*nts. Life is too short to try to please others, do what you want to do because it doesn't matter when you're dead anyway. You will be forgotten.

Life is like a game where there is no end e.g. Football Manager or Sims. It can't be completed. Satisfy yourself and try share it with someone who enjoys life the same way you do. Who cares if you piss a few people off or if you fail, like I said, you will die and you will be forgotten anyway. Do what you want to do because when you're an old shrivelled raisin you won't be able to do shít. You have a very small time to live how you want, so just do it and not be a sap.

Edit:
Also as already stated don't worry about the little things or worry about anything other than yourself or those close to you. The world/society is already set and there is fúck all you can do about it. Want to save Africa? Tough shít, you won't. Want to save the animals? Tough shít, you want. The world is made so that the rich remain rich and the poor remain poor. You will never be rich, you might be well off - but not rich. Actually becoming rich is _extremely_ rare. Don't worry about material things because like I just said, you will not be rich. Don't believe everything that you read or everything that anyone tells you. You may as well enjoy yourself because the more you know the more depressing this shíthole gets, it's all about wealth and that's the bottom line. Don't work too hard because what's the point - nobody has ever looked back and said they'd rather work more, if they did then they were dumb. You can work more and get your measly money while most of it goes to the government and in this country most of it will go elsewhere.

Ignorance is bliss, live the dream and have the craic. Don't worry about arseholes, enjoy yourself and piss a few of them off on the way.

Not to be rude but that's a horrible way to live.

I think if you live you your life ignorant you will never actually live.

Feeona

Listen to people older than you. They've been at this dinner party longer than you and so have a better idea of what course is coming next!*



*don't have to do what they say though!

maiden

'There's no one dead!'

My motto in life, anything can be sorted as long as no one has died

Emiko

'You'll be a long time dead'...

meaning; you only have one shot at life, so loosen up.

Gercakeage

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

EverEvolving

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things

I like the one that goes: If everybody wants something different and there is no way to compromise, then please yourself, that way at least one person is happy and it's you.