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2,676 posts
Location: The countryside, Australia
Does anyone have a good personal motto or any general advice?
Because the year 12s have to fill out a sort of profile that goes in the yearbook at the end of the year...and the questions are as follows:
'I've learnt ...
I love/d ...
My advice is ...
My motto is ...
Don't tell anyone but ... '
I don't like them, but we have to do it...and I'm stuck on the motto and advice ones....so any good suggestions are greatly appreiciated. I don't want to have the corny ones like 'life is short' 'live life to the fullest' 'follow your heart' because everyone will have ones like those! I kind of want it to be witty but lovely at the same time. I want it to bring a smile on all the other years 12s (and everyone else) who will read it.
Some of you have good ones in your signitarues, I've noticed this over time. So I'll be taking notice of signatures now!
.All things are beautiful if we take the time to look.
1,019 posts
Location: Huddersfield + Hull Uni... UK.
"My motto is '[censored] you'".
Works for me.
Willy - is bad for your health...
c",
199 posts
Location: Ireland
Cheese, milk's leap towards immortality
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
If at first you dont succeed.... cheat!
virginity is like a balloon
One prick and its gone
sex is like a bank account
one you withdraw you lose interest
life is like a box of chocolates
you can share it with friends n family (thats pretty lame
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Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
mines
"fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"
It reminds me to give people a chance but not let them walk over me.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
member
110 posts
Location: my own little planet of gingerness, United Kingdom
i have two mottos i love
smile its free ....................
and
procrastination is the assination of insperation dont kill your dreams execute them
i dont get paid to belive i get paid to destroy things
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia
oops
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
reach for the moon, because even if you miss you will land amongst the stars.....
"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
addict
529 posts
Location: North Shore, New Zealand
share your knowledge its a way of achieving immortality;.or
without my red hair id be nothing
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw
a revolver at him?
member
75 posts
Location: In UK for now, but born an lived in ZIMBABWE and S...
What the mind of man can concieve and believe it can achieve.
What doesnt kill u makes u stronger (how true is that one)
And U DONT KNOW UNLESS U TRY
Pooh-Bah
2,444 posts
Location: Bristol !!!!!!, United Kingdom
I tend to work on the principle that i don't care what you do as long as it doesn't affect me. The minute it affects me - it becomes my business. It keeps you very open minded and respectful of others choices and behaviour.
Gayle.....!
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
If you love something set it free, if it comes back to your, its yours, if it doens't it wasn't meant to be.
And:
Work like you don't need money
Love like you've never been hurt
Dance like nobodies watching
Live like its Heaven on Earth
Ok, you asked for not cheesy. But I don't have any not cheesy available at the moment... I'll try again later.
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
4,145 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
doesn't translate well, but it's something along the lines of:
you are nothing else than what you make yourself to be
(by that French weird person Sartre
) "vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
mostly a muppet in need of distraction...
305 posts
Location: bristol, Australia
mine are cheesy but - "live for today" (which i have tattooed!)
and better to regret the things you did than regret the things you didnt.
B x
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
1,024 posts
Location: london
evil prevails when good men stand by and do nothing.
nothing in life is to be feared only understood.
your name is unimportant, its your actions that define you.
15 posts
Location: Newfoundland. Canada.
" Everything happens for a reason. "
thats my motto.
don't know who said it though .. its a pretty good.
- Alyssa
Nine feet of rope .. one ball of fire.
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom
dont follow convention
never say no
just believe in what you see and let the good times roll
Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no
663 posts
Location: Glasgow
"He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes long into you" - Nietzsche.
I take that to mean "don't dwell on the past to too long or it will consume you"
"Who dares wins"
Have faith in what you can do and respect for what you can't
member
72 posts
Location: On the far left of sane, Ireland
Damn you onefinalstep!
I was all geared up for Nietzche but you stole my favourite.
A few others:
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
I am not a bitch.
I am THE bitch.
And Im Miss Bitch to you.
member - tee hee "member"
279 posts
Location: Bethnal Green, London, England (UK)
Mine has changed over the years but its settled on....
"Keep it simple,
Get it DONE"
It basically means:
Even the most complex of things is only achieved through small steps and it takes very little to do each step. Don't get overwhelmed by the big picture.
"Whats wrong with the cat?" - Mrs Schrödinger
64 posts
Location: Near to Yeovil, In Somerset
"Keep your eyes open and get on with it" Sir Laurence Olivier.
So what your saying is, if I take just ONE more pill...
237 posts
Location: Waterford, CT
I think my advice would be "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth."
663 posts
Location: Glasgow
Sorry Akashla. Thats been one of my mottos for years or at least since I started at high school. Another few are...
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. " - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Slip me a decaf and I'll rip your head off" - Anita Blake.
"I hate to waste a really good threat." - Anita Blake
"Cops...give them anything suspicious and they'll put two and two together and make ten to twenty-five to life." - Anita Blake
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." - Socrates
"If you're a friend I count to 10, if you aren't I count to 5" - Samantha McFarlane (a good friend of mine)
Have faith in what you can do and respect for what you can't
4,308 posts
Location: York, England
Burning- the process of breaking things down into simpler forms.
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales
'Grow old Disgracefully, but never grow up.'
'show people respect until they prove they are unworthy of it and if they prove unworthy just walk away'
'never eat yellow snow'
'if it had a face, don't eat it'
'chocolate can cure all ills'
Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
my fave is
"whats a motto?
nothing whats the motto with you? "
"ignore reality - its the only way to live
because the reality is - nothing's worth it"
back
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
Most of the time my motto is "right, lets not do that again" or "get on with it"
Our family motto is "Don't tell your mother"
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Pasta of Muppets
2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom
Nil illegitimum carborundum...
Pig latin for "dont let the B'stards grind you down"
and
"Life is a hoover. It sucks."
"The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing" - Socrates saying how an arrogant bugger like myself should carry on...
Cheers
ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
carpe deuim (sp?)
seize the day
carpe jegulum - similar
and its not really a motto but it is my fav bit of latin
cognito ergo sum
back
2,443 posts
Location: nottingham - the land of opportunity lol!
mine is "be the best."
Shhhhhh! the boobies are trying to sleep.
owner and the property of noddy.
*i was a caterpilla last night * - libby_tuesday
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all...
going to the doctors is the best way to get ill, it's full of sick people...
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
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