Don't get paid in promises.
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No murders. Everything else you can apologize for.
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)
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Keep on keepin' on...
In your deathbed you'll regret more the things you didn't do than what you did
"I'm just a monkey lookin' at a monolith." said in the strong southern drawl possible.
Very good for technical situations where I'm stumped.
If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
"Will this matter in 6 months?" If not, don't waste your mental energy on it.
"Kills bugs dead."
What me worry?
Any man can grab a tiger by it's balls, but it takes a real man to squeeze.
You can't change the past and can't control the present. Deal with the future.
"Give them a hand and they'll want the arm."
In other words while it's okay to help people you need to be careful and impose some limits here and there, as people are naturally greedy and will burden you for their own benefit.
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"If you don't want life you fuck you, be a dick, not an asshole" /J
I don't actually have a life motto, but I do like hearing other people's. I'll find one that jives with me eventually, till then I survive.
Everything is temporary
Conversely, nothing is permanent
"Life is simultaneously too large and small, it is not worth spending time planning it"
So no more running. I aim to misbehave.
Every day, in every way, I improve myself
"Follow the money." and/or "Money is fungible."
Too strange to live, too rare to die by HST.
Sums up my life pretty well.
Life's too serious for me to take it seriously.
Safety first.
It's boring, and not good advice for living a life or making big decisions, but in the day-to-day it reminds me to be careful.
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Never trust anything with a beak. Except for crows; crows are bros.
anything you know could be wrong
I have one but I'll tell ya later.
Live fast eat ass
my motto is 'im otto, i came to get blotto"
If you don't know why, somebody else does.