What are some of the best things you have ever heard ? Looking for quotes or inspiration that help us all through life . Above all have fun with it .
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Country Bumpkin
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From Nicholas Evans in the book The Smoke Jumper
"No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire"
"No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire"
Turkeytider
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It`s easier to whisper advice from cover than to risk its merit at the point of attack.
Critter Picker
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My grandmother told me.
"If you want to kill time, try working it to death"
"If you want to kill time, try working it to death"
If you are ever afraid to try something new. Remember that the Ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic was built by professionals.
Calvin45
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some good advise I got when I was 16 working a summer job….there was this big rock we needed to get out of the path, a small boulder really, and the men were gonna get a wheelbarrow and we were gonna lift it together and make it an easy task. But being 16 with something to prove, I caveman lifted the thing myself while they were getting the wheelbarrow and walked it to its intended destination. Feeling smug and proud of myself.
The older guy, grumpy old fella (to me) in his late 60s with a heart of gold buried under all that grumpiness looks at me and says
"Junior!" (He was always calling me that)
"What?"
"You have a choice to make in life. You can be smart or you can be tough, because if you refuse to be smart you better be tough cuz life's gonna hurt, and what you just did was stupid".
I've taken the words to heart haha, it's good advice.
The older guy, grumpy old fella (to me) in his late 60s with a heart of gold buried under all that grumpiness looks at me and says
"Junior!" (He was always calling me that)
"What?"
"You have a choice to make in life. You can be smart or you can be tough, because if you refuse to be smart you better be tough cuz life's gonna hurt, and what you just did was stupid".
I've taken the words to heart haha, it's good advice.
Life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but also more useful than a life doing nothing.
Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
Both quotes were Bernard Shaw. Proof that not all of us Mickeys just drink whiskey all day.
Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.
Both quotes were Bernard Shaw. Proof that not all of us Mickeys just drink whiskey all day.
"Pressure makes diamonds"
George Patton
"Never trust a fart after 40"
Unknown wiseman
George Patton
"Never trust a fart after 40"
Unknown wiseman
hesse
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Boy if you are going to be Dumb then you better be Tough
Calvin45
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"Tell the truth"
Another good one that's come to reveal itself as being very deep and simple and among the most important things to me over time was something a man said to me when I was in my fourth year of Bible College, 21 years old, not yet knowing I would imminently become a pastor in this small town for the better part of a decade. I didn't think I'd be going into vocational ministry at all but here I was, having spent four years at Bible school when I originally just intended to do one year as a tangible way to put God first in my life before I went off and did "something else". As the old
Saying goes "if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans".
Anyway I was in the office of a local minister who was overseeing some of my training and a member of his church came into the office for a quick moment (said member was also my shop teacher back in high school, we knew each other well enough) and the pastor said to him "do you have any advice for the young man going into ministry?"
The man made pretty intense eye contact with me, not at all aggressive just very serious, and all he said to me was "tell the truth". And then he walked away. It was a very cool
exit I'll admit 
but also holy smokes was he right. More important and sometimes harder to do than 99 percent of the stuff I trained for academically.
And it also reminds me of something I read from a scientist I think somewhere who had said "remember that you are the easiest person to fool." We fool ourselves, we come to beleive the lies we tell ourselves if we're in the habit of telling them, and telling the truth to ourselves, about ourselves, and facing that truth and doing what it requires will prove to be the hardest thing we do I think, and the most necessary.
But God giveth more grace….
Wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, He gives me the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What will it profit a man if he gains the world but forfeits his soul?
Another good one that's come to reveal itself as being very deep and simple and among the most important things to me over time was something a man said to me when I was in my fourth year of Bible College, 21 years old, not yet knowing I would imminently become a pastor in this small town for the better part of a decade. I didn't think I'd be going into vocational ministry at all but here I was, having spent four years at Bible school when I originally just intended to do one year as a tangible way to put God first in my life before I went off and did "something else". As the old
Saying goes "if you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans".
Anyway I was in the office of a local minister who was overseeing some of my training and a member of his church came into the office for a quick moment (said member was also my shop teacher back in high school, we knew each other well enough) and the pastor said to him "do you have any advice for the young man going into ministry?"
The man made pretty intense eye contact with me, not at all aggressive just very serious, and all he said to me was "tell the truth". And then he walked away. It was a very cool
exit I'll admit but also holy smokes was he right. More important and sometimes harder to do than 99 percent of the stuff I trained for academically.And it also reminds me of something I read from a scientist I think somewhere who had said "remember that you are the easiest person to fool." We fool ourselves, we come to beleive the lies we tell ourselves if we're in the habit of telling them, and telling the truth to ourselves, about ourselves, and facing that truth and doing what it requires will prove to be the hardest thing we do I think, and the most necessary.
But God giveth more grace….
Wretched man that I am, who will save me from this body of death? Thanks be to God, He gives me the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.
What will it profit a man if he gains the world but forfeits his soul?
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"You can't afford her"
What my best friend at the time said to me as I was about to go talk to a gorgeous woman looking at me in the bar of the Gold Rush restaurant and bar in Anchorage Ak. I'd just gotten back to the main land from spending a year on a advanced radar site in the Aleutian Islands. She was picking up guys coming back from the pipeline build.You can guess her profession.
What my best friend at the time said to me as I was about to go talk to a gorgeous woman looking at me in the bar of the Gold Rush restaurant and bar in Anchorage Ak. I'd just gotten back to the main land from spending a year on a advanced radar site in the Aleutian Islands. She was picking up guys coming back from the pipeline build.You can guess her profession.
If a man talks in the forest, and woman isn't there to hear it, is he still wrong?
If a woman talks in the forest, and a man isn't there to hear it, it's she still nagging?
If a woman talks in the forest, and a man isn't there to hear it, it's she still nagging?
If you're going thru Hell, just keep going...
birddog 68
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Well, were you able to afford it?
