Your favorite motto, saying, axiom, raison d'être...

[Darkflower]

Not sure who said it, and one I have to rethink constantly because sometimes it seems like great wisdom, and sometimes it seems like bullshit:

It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

Likewise:

It's better to define yourself according to the things you love, than to define yourself by the things you hate.

 

[Maelstrom]

A few more...

If you can't do something smart, Do something right.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. ~Carlin

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. ~Carlin

Later,

 

[RonR18]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
~Mark Twain

 

[RonR18]

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~Albert Einstein

 

[kevbo]

"You can't bullshit a bullshitter"

 

[codeerror]

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." -Handey

 

[seven2go]

"You have to start somewhere......even if it's wrong."

 

[FPNY]

as you ramble on thru life
whatever be your goal
keep your eyes upon the donut
and not upon the hole.

my dad