I found this in a Chinese fortune cookie a while back, "Luck helps those who help themselves." It's similar to "God helps those who help themselves."

Most recently.."Going through hell, but I'm not stopping to take pictures"!

Focus on the positive, forget about the negative

Jesus loves me and He loves you too.

What goes around, comes around

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Also "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Sue

Live life to the FULLEST every single day. It could be your last day.

Moni

By John Ruskin..."He who is not actively kind, is cruel."

"Do as I say, not as I do"????

So many different things.

 Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
 Don't believe everything you read in an email or everything people tell you.
 Trust, but verify.
 A fool and their money soon develop irreconcilable differences.
 Don't get hung up worrying about things over which you have no control.
 Life is jumping off a bridge. You fly, sink or swim.
 A walk through the ocean of many souls would scarcely get your feet wet.
 Learn from your mistakes, like how to not repeat them.
 Forgive, but never forget, or you'll have to forgive often.
 Don't poke sticks at the gator 'til you've crossed the stream.
 Close the gate before the cows get out.
 Don't sell the hide until you've shot the bear.
 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
 There is no vaccine against stupidity and the mother of idiots is always pregnant.
 Spell check isn't just for witches.
 If the snow's crust can carry a grown man on June 24th, then spring will be late.
 If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got.
 Never ask a question you don't want answered.

And as I proved to a sheister attorney recently...
 One recording is worth 10,000 affidavits!

Life is a sum of choices you've made. Make them wisely...
By the way, I do NOT believe in "I have no choice situations.
There's always, at least, two choices: only one of them is much easier to follow then another.

"If there is a solution to a problem, then why worry. If there is no solution, then why waste the energy."

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!"

There's two sides to every story.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

I don't have a personal motto, but I like this: "To thine own self be true..." (Shakespeare's character Polonius, speaking to his son) It goes on to say that if you are true to your self you cannot be false to any man.

This of course requires that you strive to know and like yourself -- be able to face yourself in the mirror every day.

I hate discrimination, and as such, I live by these two mottos:

1. We are all only temporarily abled.
2. There for the grace of God go I.

Jodi-

When I am getting too uptight about something I have no control over, it never fails that on the radio comes "Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy" (Eagles - Take it Easy). Really pulls me up short to get a grip and calm down.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Be Kinder Then Necessary"...Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle

The glass is always half full.

I say "Leave well enough alone"

You always have options.

Treat me right I'll treat you better.treat me wrong I'll treat you worse.

Question authority.

There are three sides to every story. His/her side the other person's side and the truth.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Live and let live.

Don't be a worrier - be a WARRIOR!

There's two sides to every story, then there's the truth.

Dolly

"Always let your consience be your guide" - Jiminy Cricket

If you're not living it, you don't really believe it.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, do without

My motto: Have fun. Be nuts. What did sanity ever do for you?

Be kind one to another and it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown.

I like the Scouts one: Be Ready!

I also like this little poem I say embroidered on a vintage pillow case:

For every ill under the sun,
There is a remedy or there is none.
If there be one, try to find it,
If there be none, never mind it!

I like Seize the Day, too.

nola anne

you can't fix what you don't acknowledge and be the change you want to see.

salgal -- I never heard that one. I LIKE it!

wildchild -- I think I was born questioning authority! LOL (I was almost a month late too.)

Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you.

:-)

"Sometimes the Lord calms the storm.
Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child."

"There's never a wrong time to do the right thing"
AND
"Be Calm, Be Strong, Be Grateful"

Ever since I changed jobs a few years ago, my words to live by at work have been "Shut up and color." Oh well, five more years til retirement.

I like alot of your-all's slogans better.

"Believe none of what you hear,and only 1/2 of what you see."

"it is what it is"

"The harder the conflict..the more glorious the triumph!"

Shoot for the moon...even if you miss you'll land amoung the stars!

I was raised with this saying...

"If your mind is too open, your brain will fall out."

"Take care of your car and it will take care of you."...my dad.

another fav of mine

"Don't burn your bridges...you may have to cross them later"

and

"Only a Life Lived For Others is Worth Living...Albert Einstein"

Soul mates are not found they are made.

From Grandma, "Don't creoss bridges till you get there!", related to worrying about something that may well never happen.

Worrying doesn't change anything, anyway.

Love your neighbour as yourself. (But ... not your neighbour's wife).

ole joyful