What's your unique wisdom tidbit?

Always treat people the way you want to be treated. Meaning: don’t be mean to wait staff, clerks, or anyone you run into in your daily life. If you can help anyone that is in a wheelchair, or using a walker, they will appreciate it.

We moved a lot and I use to be miserable because I would miss people and places left behind. But I realize in time that I can only be as happy as I want to be. When I would be excited about a move, I would build up the next location in my mind and it was guarantee to let me down when it didn’t meet my expectations.
When I didn’t look forward to a move then I would expect the worse and only see what I expected to see and so I couldn’t enjoy our next tour duty.
When I decided to simply look at things as an adventure of the unknown with no expectations, good or bad only different. Then I was able to make the next location temporary adventure. I started to look forward to exploring new locations, learning new stuff and getting to know new people. None better or worse than what I left behind. Just different.
Then I was able to enjoy all the good aspects of the changes. I think it is also what helped me to accept changes in my own life.

The chance that bread will fall buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

A mirror can deflect a laser.
Yet it cannot stop someone from crushing themselves with the insecurities of others.

If God is a security blanket, then are we who don’t believe cold?
Not that being warm, cozy and sheltering one from another’s truth allows you to say who needs some faith.

I wrote these down when I was in 9th grade, after I woke up in the middle of the night. I don’t know why, but I had this overwhelming urge to write down a lot of things that didn’t all make sense. I took all the pieces of paper, and assembled them into a poem. These are two lines from it that I liked, and lived by from then on.

Live each day like there is no tomorrow.

and a bonus one…

You can’t possibly lose if you never give up.

Be sweet in your words and be nice to people. You never know when you will meet someone you really like that also happens to be friends with that person you can’t stand.

I have posted this before, but this is my bit of wisdom:

dogs and cats

When you come home from work, the dog greets you at the door, excited you’re home.
A dog comes when it is called.
A dog plays with you when you want to play.
Feed a dog, it will eat.
Dogs think you are the smartest, most wonderful person, and they love to show you their affection.

When you come home from work, the cat doesn’t care.
Call a cat, the cat ignores you.
Try to play with a cat, and it ignores you, till it gets angry and snaps at you.
Try to feed a cat, and it may or may not eat. It often just ignores you.
Cats think you don’t know anything. They think it’s best if they pretend you aren’t there.
Cats figure you are at best an incovenience. If they choose to show you any affection, it is probably only for their own personal gain.

Children are born dogs. When they turn 13 or 14, they suddenly turn into cats. They stay cats for 5 or so years, then fade into a middle ground between dog and cat behavior. They never fully become dogs again.

Stay on the attack, with whatever weapons are at hand, until you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that your enemy is dead. Failure to do this could result in you being very dead.

Let it be.

Human nature is constant across time. There is nothing new under the sun.

Don’t drink cola drinks. You will get a lot of cavities. Brush and floss. Preferably, 2–3 times a day. The rest will work itself out.

Don’t try to be as skinny as a model by eating only 3 vegetables and water everyday for a month.
You will pass out from malnutrition.

Lethargy breeds lethargy. Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.

In other words don’t sit around and wait for it to happen, get out there and make something, anything happen!

That no matter how bad things seem, eventually there will be light at the end of the tunnel and you just have to hold on and wait until things turn around.

My other thing is… give and you will receive.

Things always get better. And they always get worse. When you’re in a ‘better’ situation, enjoy it. When you’re in a ‘worse’ situation, hang on with all you’ve got, and in time, you’ll see ‘better’ again.

Red sky at night means…...err, god is having a barbecue?
When the moon is low on an autumnal evening, it means the price of pork bellies is about to drop significantly.

The mass of 22.4 liters of a gas at STP (Standard, temp, and pressure) is the same as its molecular weight.

(I use this rule all the time!)

^^Engineer nerd.

People think in different ways. It’s OK.

@worriedguy < I don’t understand most of what he (@worriedguy) says, but I like him very much anyway.

None of us get out of here alive, so enjoy it while you can, and take care of yourself so you can enjoy the whole thing.

@chyna You got that right!

@wilma You use that rule to determine the density of a gas. You mean, you don’t need that info every day?

@worriedguy my son is an engineer. Sometimes I wonder how I ever gave birth to someone who is so talented in way that I am not.

Friends come and go, enemies last forever. (unknown)

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! (Chicken Little)