Quotes/aphorisms that have actually helped you in life

[mbillie1]

"This is my way; where is yours?"--thus I answered those who asked me "the way." For the way--that does not exist.

-Nietzsche, <u>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</u>, third part, "On The Spirit of Gravity"

[private joker]

Yeah, so much of Zarathustra works for me in this thread. One I come back to often is "I would only believe in a God who could dance."

[theBruiser500]

joker good quote from theodore. I've used that one on a few times to make myself talk to girls. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Event Duality]

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Myrtle]

Over the Mountains Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
"Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied,
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

-Edgar Allen Poe from his poem El Dorado


"Life is all about making memories"

-My Wife.


"Make good Decisions"

- Greg Raymer.

[Clan Macleod]

"good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement"

[SZEppi]

When you were born, you were the only one in the room crying and everybody else was smiling. Live your life so, that when you die, you will be the only one in the room smiling and everybody else will be crying.

Didn't actually help me, but more of a 'always try and be nice' kind of reminder.

[registrar]

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When you were born, you were the only one in the room crying and everybody else was smiling. Live your life so, that when you die, you will be the only one in the room smiling and everybody else will be crying.

Didn't actually help me, but more of a 'always try and be nice' kind of reminder.

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This reminds me of something that has never been of great solace but is, by and large, true:

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and you wet your face.

[traz]

This above all: to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

[Rupert]

Theres a quote from Barry Greenstein at the back of his book which escapes me at the moment (if anyone could quote it directly that would be fantastic) -- it's basically along the lines of "Do not use money as a goal but use money as a tool to achieve your goals"