What is one motto that you try to live by?

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Mine is things aren't always as they seem behind closed doors.
Basically I try never to be jealous of people because you can never tell what people's lives are really like. There is always a skeleton...

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It's better to be kind than to be right.

Trust no-one

Love many, trust few but always paddle your own canoe. (Grandmother)

The Past is in your behind - from The Lion King

Don't dwell. (My own)

Don't fuck it up Alilwolf (I say this to myself several times a day as I've a reactive explosive personality)

It could all be for luck (My Dad's favourite pearl of wisdom when shit goes wrong for me)

What's for you won't pass you (Again, thanks Dad, the great philosopher that you are - can you tell I DO fuck it up quite often??)

Measure Twice: Cut Once.

It is cool to be kind.

Do as you would be done by

Don't be a dick,
Take no shit,
If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing properly.

When your dead none of it will matter and soon be forgotten so live for myself not others opinions

Everything will be alright in the end, and it’s not alright it’s not the end

Never write down anything you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Have a colleague who often send me e-nails slagging off others (probably slags me to others). O’m Very careful to not respond in any way that could land me in trouble.

Always have your own back first.

Check, double check the check again. Usually at work i’ll Leave something i’ve Completed then check later as it seems easier to spot an error if you have taken a step back.

You don't know 'til you give it a go.

Your mind is a garden
Your thoughts are the seeds
You can grow flowers
Or you can grow weeds

Love this but no idea who to credit it to

The lyrics to Baz Luhrmann's "Sunscreen" are basically my bible

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Don’t do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
They may have entirely different tastes.

Surround yourself with people who are radiators and avoid those who are drains - find this very apt in office environments.

And more of a statement of intent rather than a motto:
"Well behaved women seldom make history"

"Tis but for a night, O muleteer..." not sure where it came from, but I say it every time I have a difficult time looming.

You can't change the hand you are dealt, only the way the way you play it.

Do it all, do it badly

That's a good one Ciderandskatesdontmix

I'm pleased to see that kindness is alive and well on this thread

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to your courage.

You deserve what you tolerate.

Never sleep on an argument and try to let it go as you don't know what tomorrow will bring. On a similar note, there's a phrase I read which rings true about the importance of letting go when someone has hurt you: Anger is an acid which does more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything which it is poured.

Keep happy in your heart