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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I better write that down…

I love collecting pithy little sayings (here’s a favorite: Momma, I am pooped up to my ass), but over the years, I have also tried to collect my own thoughts and personal aphorisms. Here’s a sampling:

*Child, open that clenched fist you call a mind.
(I taught HS English for ten years.)

You learn more by taking a good fall than by fighting a good throw.
(I teach judo, too)

The most important part of all is the part you didn’t hear.

I don’t need to beat myself, life does that enough already.

The secret of writing is not to have terrible, huge events occur to you; to write powerfully, you need to look with large eyes, eyes of wonder, to see the enormous power in the smallest movement.

I am happy in the sharpness of my pleats.

When you are wrong, apologize, expect nothing in return, and go on.

The less threatening I am, the more dangerous I can be.

I can not truly believe something I do not truly question.*

I would love to hear what original scintillating wit and profound wisdom all you marvelous Dopers have composed yourselves. Variations on a theme borrowed from some famous source are ok, but I invite you to string your truly original pearls on this thread.

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There is no such thing as right or wrong. Only varying levels of intensity to which a person is true to themselves and their beliefs.

The meaning of life is to think of living as a bastion of hope. The hope that as we live, we will grow stronger, not weaker. That each new challenge, perk, and crushing blow will forge our souls into a more rugged, more powerful, and more beautiful work of art.

If you do not believe in anything, please believe at least in faith. If a person has enough faith in something…is not that something to marvel?

Through the course of your life, try to always remember to do three things. Firstly, always do your best. Secondly, never try to hurt anyone. Thirdly, if you remembered the first two, then if something goes terribly wrong, you can probably rest assured that it couldn’t be helped.

Philosophy is cheap and underrated. Putting it to good use is worth a lot more.

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Nothing ventured, nothing ventured.

Everything causes cancer.

If you can’t say something nice, say something entertaining.

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if you’re not sure where to post, put it in MPSIMS.

:smiley:
d&r

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Football is the most exciting, fun girlfriend you ever had. Baseball is your wife.

and

Baseball is the American tea ceremony.

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Life is a pointless, painful, grueling dance, but when I look at my alternatives, I sort of feel like dancing…

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Beautifully said, ** Ashtar. **

Should this be overrated?