Guidelines for Life

Guidelines for Life

If you don’t want to know the answer don’t ask the question.

Learn something new every day or don't live long.

If you can't help don't hinder.

Never be too sure of anything. It's a sign of weakness.

Face your demons then harness them.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today

Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy.

You’ll always regret what you didn’t do rather than what you did.

If the grass is greener on the other side, there’s probably more manure there.

Judge a man by his questions, not his answers.

If you want to know a person’s character watch how they treat people who can’t help them.

Hard choices are precious opportunities to become the distinctive people that we are.

Certainty about the future is a sign of mental illness.

Powerful emotion is a form of temporary insanity.

Wearing headphones does not make your farts silent. 

An imperfect start can always be improved. Just start

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Collect moments, not things.

Karma’s only a bitch if you are.

Always make time to stop and smell a flower or pet a dog.

If you don’t feel as though you fit into this world it’s because you’re here to create a new one.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Never argue with a stupid person, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, but there will always be someone who hates peaches

Be persistent. When knowledge and ability aren’t enough, be persistent

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we are still alive.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. 

The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

Small actions beat big intentions.

We live for moments to die for

If you blame it on someone else, don’t expect it to get better.

Make friends with people who want the best for you

Everyone has a story to tell that's worth hearing.

Never make someone a priority who only makes you an option.

Trouble is part of your life—if you don’t share it you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

If you treat a woman like a queen, and she treats you like a jester, your princess is in another castle.

A man is in love when something in his pants, in his head, and in his heart react the same way to a certain woman.

Don’t let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

The spirit isn’t worth spit without a little exercise.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much space.

Perfect boobs have nothing to do with size or shape. It's the woman to whom they're attached.

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the inaction of indifference.

Don't interfere with something that isn't bothering you. 

Your rights end where mine begin.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Always drink upstream from the herd. 

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain.

Trying to convince Jesus to be on your side is always a bad idea.