It is easier to get a million people to give you a dollar, than to get one person to give you a million.......
I think a non-political stance wasn't too difficult when real politics were verboten It wasn't advice exactly, but it taught me a great deal when Paul Robeson, the greatest American so far, wasn't even allowed out to sing at the Miners' Eisteddfod in Porthcawl and had to do it over the phone. A friend of my Father's had been a friend of his when he was here. Valleys people back then practically worshipped him for standing by us when the tories were trying to destroy us. Now they've succeeded their successors are doubtless being brainwashed into amnesia.
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It is easier to get a million people to give you a dollar, than to get one person to give you a million.......
I once had a pastor tell me to pick the three things that I would most like to change about the woman I was wanting to marry. The pastor wanted me to name these three things before he performed our wedding ceremony that I was asking him to perform, so I gave him my list. He then explained to me that those three things that I listed would probably never change. He said that I needed to decide if I would still marry her if those three things never changed, since they would probably never change. He said he would perform the ceremony once I agreed to those terms and accepted his advice.
The Truth Does Not Need To Be Supported With Censorship.
midcan5 (01-14-2019)
The best advice I ever received is "work hard, others don't"
MAGA MAN (01-14-2019)
That is fascinating. It is funny you knew three things before the big day. Makes me think back to our marriage, now in its forty seventh year.
I love, Great that you work hard others do too. Any other thoughts?
Postmodern, that is true but is it advice or wisdom? Any other thoughts.
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” Benjamin Franklin
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
evince (01-28-2019), Phantasmal (01-14-2019)
Surely there are more deep thoughts out there? The question is a hard one for many as we are told so much in life. If you can think of none then give us your advice to a son daughter friend.
"Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.” Sophie Kinsella
"There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” Charles Steinmetz
"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall." William Shakespeare
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
evince (01-28-2019)
A piece of advice from the Bible I always appreciated, and with which I used to infuriate my (parson) Father was, as I recollect. 'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath, lest there should be no awakening'. It is the best advice I ever got, whatever.
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
evince (01-28-2019)
I hate to clog up up APP with threads as few are read so then this thread is still open to advice but how about 'my personal motto is' Any takers?
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
evince (01-28-2019)
No personal mottoes? Put on your thinking cap.
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long." Robert Staughton Lynd
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn’t." Erica Jong
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Thought provoking.
It's easy for me to come up with bad advice I received because I got a lot of that. I just didn't get much good advice although "perseverance" comes to mind.
Life for me has been a lot of trial and error and learning from mistakes.
If I (present) were a mentor to myself (past) I could provide a ton of wisdom that I never received.
Do you ever think "If I could be 14 (or 17, or pick an age) again I'd take a different path" ? An old friend and I have that conversation occasionally.
But overall I came out ok in spite of myself.
midcan5 (01-28-2019)
Interesting comments. And as iolo noted maybe it would be worse? If all is fine now, maybe it was the right path. While I hate to say it I often think luck sometime helps, some of the choices I made hesitantly turned out to open up great opportunity and we have had a good life.
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility." Eleanor Roosevelt
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Watch the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
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