“Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness for I am kind to everyone. Cross me and weakness is the last thing you’ll remember about me.” Al Capone

Not my original quotes but I often use the following:

"The world is not ours, we borrow if from our children" (a Native American foundation of morality)

• • when someone makes a silly mistake and openly shows embarrassment: "If I had a dollar for every time I did that I would have a lot of money". - - usually works to bring you to their level and reduce the impact of their mistake. (I am, among other things, an elementary school teacher)

This one I preface with - - this is not necessarily the case but an interesting quote is: "No good deed goes unpunished." - - a cautionary warning that "good intentions" may have adverse outcomes. Usually opens discussion on the topic of consequences for actions.

Other things I say more then most:

"Interesting, I did not know that. Can we trust that source?" Why?

"Good answer! How did you figure that out?"

"I do not know is a very good answer."

"Thank you for correcting me. I really appreciate you helping me understand."

"It only takes three clicks" - I also do tech support

"I value truth above things that are just pleasant."

"If you can demonstrate I am wrong, I will thank you."

Defy definition.

I've said some clever things while giving advice to friends but hell if I can remember them! Lol! My favorite quote is from Eleanor Roosevelt. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

This justisfies any actions you take out of pure gut instinct. No regrets this way. No matter what you do, people will either like or dislike it. Fuck 'em and follow your heart.

I am as young as the woman I feel. Always gets people to give a “did I just hear him right” look. Lol

What goes around comes around

Different folks different strokes

They/we haven't got a pot to piss in let alone a window to chuck it out of

'What can't be cured, must be endured.'
More so in the context of stupidity and blind optimism.

Enjoy the ride.

There's a scene in the movie, Mosquito Coast, where Harrison Ford's character & family have lost everything they've struggled to create in a remote jungle. His wife speaks up for herself and her kids when she suggests they admit defeat and make their way to the village downstream. His reaction: "Downstream? We're not going downstream! Dead things go downstream!!" I'm fiercely stubborn and similarly loathe to admit defeat, so that last part becomes something of a mantra when a plan or project starts to take a beating.

Work hard play hard love hard. Not necessarily in that order.

My response to "Hi-how-are-you" is "I'm getting better all the time, thanks. How are you?"

People in our culture are on autopilot so much in their interactions with others. Hi-how-are-you is almost always followed by Fine-how-are-you.

My response accomplishes two things.

First, we believe what we tell ourselves. When I tell myself that I'm getting better all the time, I believe it, and it comes to pass.

Second, it serves to wake people up from their stupor, if only for a minute or two. I don't respond in the prescribed way, so it makes them stop their autoresponses and pay attention for a moment. It's wonderful to watch people wake up and interact on a personal basis, however briefly.

A friend once asked me why I was so hard on myself, undemanding and self-denying.
I replied "I live in the gaps between other people's lives".
She laughed so hard I didn't forget it, and I think it could well be my motto.

A line from Green Hell has always been significant to me for various reasons, but since the death of my son, it has taken on additional meaning...
Hell is green, I need a flame

I use one a lot that was from Richard Dawkins; 'Religion should be dealt with with ridicule and contempt'.

" you can observe a lot just by watching '

Keep your friends close and your enemies away from you. I live by that.

Go for it !roll with the punches, and take all opportunities as they arise. don't dither go thither and yon.

I got this one from my dad....whenever the kids complain about an injury(nothing serious) or tiredness.... they get this...

"It ain't from workin!"

Especially if it is actually due to work. See the irony? Haha.

This is your life, not a rehearsal.

It's all chicken, but the beak!

I say often ---- "and so it goes----!" plus "oh dear same old! same old!"

One that gets me through is 'All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things, shall be well'.

Never throw- up into the oncoming wind,
Dont count your chickens it will take all day!
Doesn't matter what anyone thinks about you, thats their business not yours

I have a few. I grew up outside of society, and I developed my own beliefs, and code of honour, that I live by here's a couple.
"We exist for an instant. Everything else is just a dream for the future, or a memory from the past. What you do this instant, determines and develops both"

"In a universe as vast as this one, with the amount of time it has at its' disposal, anything and everything, can and will eventuate... eventually"

"The fact god exists is incontrovertible. Something created the universe... the only debate should be whether it is sentient or not"

Seriously. Give me a scenario, and I'll give you my philosophy on it...

a few, but this is my favorite.
No stone unturned, no bridge unburned.