Life changing advice

[Mik Sunrider]

Got to go with learn how to cook, I learned how to cook when I was in boy scouts cooking over a open flame of a camp fire. Once you learn how not to burn your food that way, cooking on a stove is easy as pie. Learn how to bake pies too, while your waist will hate you, your taste buds will love you.

Also "Reality does not care what you believe"

 

[Shinsei-J]

After seeing an odd forum title I told one of my friends that women can pee standing up and she was pretty stoked about learning it.
I like to think I changed her life.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

"Don't form the way you live around the advice of a single sentence statement."

Life is crazy and changing all the time. You have to be flexible and sturdy at the same time. Nobody can live your life for you so its up to YOU to choose how you react. Also mayonnaise is terrible.

That's all I got.

 

[nariette]

"It's better to be sexy and racy than sexist and racist" - Stephen Fry

I can't think of anything else that won't sound extremely cheesy. Like "Love yourself before you fall in love". I'm just gonna go with "eat your vegetables".

 

[Gaijinko]

Drunk brother said to me, you gotta live by the code. what code? I asked. 00100100 0101001 01110100 he said. He then laughed for about five minutes, never forgot that advice.

 

[MrCollins]

?Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.?
― Bernard M. Baruch

It turns out is pretty true, this like gem has served me many a time

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

"Don't form the way you live around the advice of a single sentence statement."

I live by these words.

...Wait. Shit

OT: Don't hate yourself for feeling like you don't live up to society's expectations for how you should act. I spent most of highschool trying (and generally failing) to be social, constantly hating myself for appearing to be the only person who didn't fit into a group of friends, spending many a lunch hour alone and feeling like an absolute tool. Come University I was given space, nobody knew me or cared about what I did in my free time. I ended up spending around the first two years talking to almost nobody. I spent my breaks between classes reading, playing games and occasionally talking to someone I knew from highschool. Trying to force myself to be social was just draining and I found out that often I just enjoy being alone and having space to myself. I would still have liked to have met some people and made some good friends, but I didn't hate myself for it, and I was enjoying the time that I was spending alone.

I still should probably put myself out there a little bit more, but I don't feel like something's wrong with me for not wanting to anymore, and I can do it at my own pace rather than the pace I felt like I should be meeting

EDIT: First Captcha was "Good grief" and second was "Marry me". I feel like captcha might be a closet Arrested Development fan

 

[Augustine]

There was this old tiny book I got while back - "Freedom from Fear" by Mike(Mark?) Matterson, I believe.
It had huge effect on me, which I cannot distill in one blurb, but for "read it if you happen upon it".

 

[lacktheknack]

"Saying you'll do it later will always mean you won't do it until it's almost too late."

...

 

[JoJo]

I've always liked this one:

Spoiler

If you believe in something, be prepared to stand up for it. If you do anything notable in the public eye, there will always be someone out there that hates what you're doing, so ignore the noise and keep going

 

[Someone Depressing]

No matter what happens, who you'll be with, and what you do...

You'll never be anything.

Also, "Go home and stuff your face with Dr. Pepper and Doritos."

When depressed, make cake. Maybe even cheesecake. Wait, you can't cook, just make french toast, you can make that.

When buying sister's boyfriend a Christmas present, don't give him gran's presents to you.

 

[viscomica]

Keep doing what you believe it's right until reason and experience proves you're wrong.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Be yourself, this is a big one. It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not. The only people worth having in your life are the ones that accept you unconditionally.

"Never take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyway." Kind of a smartass & possibly morbid bit of advice, but it's all good.

Oh yeah some actual practical advice... Learn to cook & clean & fix things yourself damn it. No need to become a chef or maid or mechanical genius, just get a good understanding of things that are important in everyday life you'll save yourself a lot of money & headaches.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

It was an ending to a skit, and a general view on life...

Spoiler: Or if you like a musical version with Bill and George Carlin

 

[Davey Woo]

I saw a quote today.
"Life isn't about quotes about life."
No idea who said it, but I found it pretty funny, but also quite true, I've always found life-quotes a bit over used. (The amount of girls who spout off that one Marilyn Monroe quote makes me sick) So this quote struck home with me.

 

[g3ko]

After reading all the posts thus far, I'll share a few of my own:

-Never take anything for granted. (based off of: "If your mother tells you that she loves you, verify it.")

-Always analyze the decision you have already made before applying it, don't second guess it. (there's a reason why you chose the first choice).

-Never ask questions you don't want to know the answer to.

-Understand the people around you before judging their actions.

And, last but not least, this quote is one that deserves mention:

"It matters little how we die, so long as we die better men than we imagined we could be -- and no worse than we feared." (that's from the Andromeda TV show).

 

[II2]

What's tricky is communicating the personal profundity of a message, beyond the text. The context of your life shapes the words into something resonant. Ergo, I'd feel like a bit of a wanker trying to spout off something that sounds like deep observation, but might have only been relevant to me at a certain stage of development.

Instead, let me relay some nuggets of unsolicited wisdom passed onto me by various drunks and junkies, they found distilled in the bottom of the bottle, or the ass end of a shot caking the mouth of their syringe.

"You can't know beauty, man, unless it's INSIDE you. You gotta have it INSIDE you to see it out there!" (drunken barfly)

"You get the women. And you fuck them" (random bum. thick accent. his unifying theory of life)

"Don't let anyone tell you who you are; you can be whoever you want" (lapsing out of consciousness, gear still in her arm)

"We can't be people like we used to. Cellphones and internet got us watching out back against the people ain't gonna do us" (another bar freak)

"My friends left me to die. And I'm here again" (some guy flying on acid who approached our camp fire / site out of the fucking woods. startled us, but he was too wasted to hurt anyone and we felt kinda sorry for him so we let him stay and have a beer). We called him Igor.

"It'ssss too mucking fuch..." (despondent man crying into the bottle of mouthwash he was drinking at 4AM)

"Life is like a box of chocolates" (adult man with learning disabilities played by academy award winning actor)

...

No real point to these. Just some perspective from the crust. Everyone thinks they know how things work, whether they're a homeless trainwreck, a successful worker or a CEO. I think it's braver to admit you don't - and in an epistemological sense, can't. (the big picture - life the universe and everything)

 

[Blow_Pop]

Take care of yourself and your mental health above every one else's. Because if you don't, no one else will do it for you.

and

Ignorance about a topic is inexcusable in such a technology oriented and savvy world.


Both of them are things I say repeatedly to people. The second one especially. It doesn't take that long to google(or whatever search engine you prefer) something and get an answer about it.


And I can NOT agree more about the confidence. It was put to me as "fake it til you make it" and it doesn't just go to guys. It goes to everyone. Confidence is what will help you the most in the long run. Fake it if you have to and eventually you'll actually be confident and the transition from faking it to actual confidence won't even be noticeable.


Another one, figure out what you like doing in life. It's easier to figure out a way to make a living doing what you enjoy than to figure out a way to enjoy what you do to make a living. (which might have been a book quote from a book I read yesterday but I honestly don't remember regardless of that fact, it is very much true)