Accidentally giving away porn to a non-English speaking stranger will only add to the chasm between your cultures.

"I love you, but I'm not in love with you"

my granddad said "life is a sexually transmitted disease that is inevitably fatal".

gee, thanks, granddad!

I know I'm not the first person to say something more or less like this, but I came to this realization on my own about 8 years ago...

Do what you can to do the right thing and make the right changes where you can. Don't beat up on yourself the times when you fail. But don't get comfortable with the failing; make sure you keep doing what you can where you can.

Something like that. And yeah, pick your battles.

Something my dad used to say in response to statements like "well if xyz, then..." about how things could be different, was "yeah, and if my aunt Edna had balls, she'd be my uncle Ed". Kinda off-color way of saying "woulda, coulda, shoulda" and "it is what it is" all in one.

the only advice my grandma ever gave me was "don't ever get old". she was not thrilled to have lived into her 80's. hard advice to take, but it's her old-age-wisdom that followed a life kinda like what Viv Savage recommends.

Those dads. Their nonchalant wisdom gets more and more eerie with age. My dad gave me this one, and I can't tell you how many times I've repeated it in the past year.

"You can only MAKE people do two things: hate you and lie to you."

areopagite wrote:"You can only MAKE people do two things: hate you and lie to you."

that one is brilliant.

my dad always told me, "it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."

lucky for me i'm 5'4" and angry as hell. wanna go?

Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic"

"If it was easy, everyone would be doing it."

and

"If god gives you lemons, get a new god."

I like this one:

The main thing is, to keep the main thing, the main thing.

Also, I live with strong conviction that you must CHOOSE what you want for no reason but because it works with you, not because of fear of failure, or because it will look good, but because it lights you up and inspires you. Life is too short to just 'deal with it'. And in those instances where you don't have an option, make the best of it, and move on in the most positive direction.

Don't lick a gift whore in the muff.