Words To Live By
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If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway.
All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.
---said to have been written on the wall above Mother Teresa's bed---
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Stumbled across this while reading Fredrik Backman's excellent 2017 novel Beartown on my flight back from Europe on Thursday. My second Backman read after A Man Called Ove, which was also outstanding. Perhaps the best developer of characters I've come across.
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Good stuff man
Good stuff man
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Thanks for the Beartown
Thanks for the Beartown recommendation, A Man Called Ove is a wonderful book. Mother Teresa was so special, it was said she only had her sweater to donate when she died.
In college, my friends and I painted my car with quotes all over. One of the best was, "What is hell? It is the suffering of being unable to love." - Doesteovsky
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Lil, Bear Town treads even
Lil, Bear Town treads even darker subject matter than A Man Called Ove (darker than suicide, well yeah), but shares Backman's astounding ability to tap into human emotion, morality, and transcendance. There is also joy and humor in the mix. It is a study of the dangers of toxic masculinity.
Apparently, it triggered some with more conservative values, as per Wikipedia:
"The book was removed from the reading list of a high school in North Carolina when parents described it as "vulgar" and "graphic"."
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"Peculiar travel suggestions
"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." – Kurt Vonnegut
“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” – Mark Vonnegut
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Are there any that have
Are there any that have originated with you/us ?
Sometimes I come up with the absolutely perfect saying, usually when on a nice high, but by the time I grab a pencil to write it down the thought disappears.
Do good, your mother would be proud of you.
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I come up with words or
I come up with words or phrases occasionally, like stone-ological order and psychedelosphere, but I don't know that I'd call them words to live by, even though I do.
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>>>>>, but by the time I grab
>>>>>, but by the time I grab a pencil to write it down the thought disappears.
When I was about 8 I woke up in the middle of the night possessing the secret of the universe. I grabbed a pencil and a piece of paper and wrote it down, Then went back to sleep.
A few days later I remembered the incident and located the scrap of paper under the bed.
It was totally illegible.
So much for the secret of the universe.
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Hard to live up to sometimes.
Hard to live up to sometimes....
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Surf, that's about perfect
Surf, that's about perfect man, I love it. As humans we just can't quite put our finger on it.
I turned to look but it was gone
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The Lord loves a working man.
The Lord loves a working man.
Don’t never ever trust Whitey
It’s out there alright. And if you catch it, see a doctor and get rid of it.
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Don't eat yellow snow
Don't eat yellow snow
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No Shirt
No Shirt
No Shoes
No Dice
Learn it, Know it, Live it
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No Shirt
No Shirt
No Shoes
No Dice
Learn it, Know it, Live it
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Never use your fist as a ball
Never use your fist as a ball peen hammer.
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>>>Are there any that have
>>>Are there any that have originated with you/us<<<
Here's one I came up with when I was teaching. It worked good as a manager in my other job as well.
"if they didn't get it, I didn't explain it right"
And here are a couple more I've always tried to live by. The first one was especially good in both my professions, the second one is good for us all...
"Don't give people what they want, give 'em what they SHOULD want!"
"If someone asks for help, why not help them?"
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Oh, and here are a couple
Oh, and here are a couple more that are specific to listening to live music, but also apply to listening in general...
"Try to hear what's there, not what isn't"
"Try to listen without predetermined expectations"
Neither are easy, but both are really important.
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Try to hear what's there, not
Try to hear what's there, not what isn't"
"Try to listen without predetermined expectations"
And if you can't, maybe just skip the shows with Scofield
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Never criticize someone until
Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you do criticize them, they'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.
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>>>maybe just skip the shows
>>>maybe just skip the shows with Scofield<<<
Wel yeah, that is what I do now, at least when he's playing with Phil.
After seeing him with Phil 12 or 13 times over the years, I've developed a pretty good idea of his approach in that setting, and despite my best efforts to "hear what's there" it's just never worked for me.
But I've given it every chance, which is what I was trying to say, and if I see him again with Phil those words above will once again be my mantra going in.
As I said, it's not easy to pull off. Ultimately it's the trying that matters.