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I'm not working a day in my life, I'm putting all my hope in the lottery...not much of a motto is it?
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Elizabeth: It's poetry. So, it's suposed to feel whatever feelings it awakened in you.
Since you were interested, here is the whole:
Mar Português (Portuguese Sea)
"Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal São lágrimas de Portugal? Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram, Quantos filhos em vão rezaram! Quantas noivas ficaram por casar Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!
Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena Se a alma não é pequena. Quem quer passar além do Bojador Tem que passar além da dor. Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu, Mas nele é que espelhou o céu"
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"O, salty sea, how much of your salt are Portugal's tears! Because we sailed thee, how many mothers cried, How many sons and daughters prayed in vain! How many brides never married So you would be ours, sea!
Was it worthwile? Everything is worthwile If your soul isn't small. One who wants to pass the Bojador (n. t. Good Hope's Cape, in Africa) Must pass beyond the pain. God gave the sea both danger and abyss But also mirrored the sky in it.
"What would Jesus do if he was a female Chinese/English mix living in Utah with a husband, three living children and a Linguistics degree?" The answer is usually "bake more bread".
What is "now you see it, now you don't" a unique reference to? Took me a minute to get it. I still don't see how Temet nosce means know thyself.
I used to have a motto that was "Worse things have happened to nicer people." But I kind of think that one sucks now.
10) Never turn down free chocolate. 9) Smile, it comforts your friends and confuses your enemies. 8) Too many people seek to be understood. Too few people seek to understand. 7) My worlds is not black and white, nor shades of grey, but contains all the colors. 6) Fear not tears. (as in don't fear tears, not fear instead of tears) 5) Be one of the good guys 4) A positive world view makes me happy. A cynical world view upsets my stomach. 3) Reality is 99% assumption, speculation, bias, deduction, refferal, faith, belief, and guess work. Only about 1% is true, hard, concrete, fact. 2) I believe that 1% is an extremely high estimate.
but my #1 Motto
1) Whenever forced to choose between A or B, always choose C
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"People are like the stars--there are bright ones and there are those that are dim."
However, in all seriousness, my personal motto, or quote, would be "Guys, I wouldn't recommend that..."
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There are just two rules for succes: 1) Never tell all you know.
Or: Sic transit gloria mundi. (Means "Gloria's sick but is on the way anyway and will probably arrive on Monday".)
Serious one: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell
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Live for the moment, f^%k the past it's done and gone, and why worry about the future, it may never come, you could suddenly die, and then all that time you used to worry about the future, would be wasted, you could have been out having fun.
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May god bless those who love us, turn the hearts of those who hate us, and if he cant turn thier hearts, let him turn their ankles so we may know them by their limp.
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aspectre gets a cookie, with extra sprinkles for coming back with one of my favorite quotes from my favorite character!
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