I heard this statement today and it made an impact on me.

” Humble people don’t think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less”

 

What’s yours?

 

 

Always loved this one by Isaac Asimov

 

"The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying."

FDR " a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor".

Puts trials and tribulations into perspective...helps you recognize them as an opportunity to learn and grow.

If you don’t change things, things don’t change

Ask not what your country can do for you , but what you can do for your country. 

I’ve had alot of problems in my life - 90% of them never happened.

“We don’t have to get ready if we stay ready “.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

My childhood friends and I would always repeat this if someone called us an unpleasant name or made fun of us back in 60,s.

 

 

 

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

 I don't know who said this first, but these are words I live by.

dont believe everything you think.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball 

Being honest & self-aware is frightening & hard, but it's real.

Can help keep a man present & grounded.

#embracingyourcurrentreality

A-Jay

Give a man a fish you feed him for a day...teach a man to fish and he will be divorced in a year.

“Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.”

 

Gist: Be preprared. 
 

I don’t know who made it up originally but I arrived at this on my own when I was a kid. However, I know I can’t possibly be the one to have coined it. It’s too obvious a thing. 
 

Now I did coin a phrase just this year. I laid pavers and extended my patio because my wife wanted this done. Over 6000 pounds of sand and gravel, yada yada and got it done. 
 

I used to call it extending my fishing liberties, but that was a grueling project and now call it earning “spousal credit.”

 

My buddy busted out laughing so hard and after he saw the patio, he told me, “Dang. I’d say you earned enough spousal credit to last well into next year,” lol. 

Common sense is a curse, not a blessing because those who have common sense have to deal those that have not.

Time (which is money) and tide (which lifts all boats) wait for no man (who isn't an island).

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.  

16 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.  

That was job security for me for just shy of 3 decades. 

A-Jay

 

- When you are dead, you don't know you're dead.  It is only sucks for others.  It is the same if you are stupid.

 

 

- Hope is not a strategy 

Life as in poker. If you can’t spot the sucker your in trouble.

It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

“You don’t stop because you get old, you get old because you stop.”

I read this recently:

 

I once met a man. I’ve never met a hero and don’t know what a hero is, but I have met a man.

"Never trust a big butt and a smile."

"Way to go, Slicko"

 

my wife