☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのProverbs, Quotes, Personal Mottos

I wonder if any of you have anything you
consider to be a personal motto or maybe
a proverb or a quote you use which holds
great meaning for you.

I love kotowaza so I have 100s. One of
my favourites which I have written in
texta on one of my many sticks, a hanbo
in this case is an old African proverb;
"Speak softly, carry a big stick, you
will go far".
I think this was also used and is often
attributed to President Roosevelt.

Another personal fav, is Japanese;
"hana ha sakuragi, hito ha bushi"
I've heard a lot of different translations
of this but the one I like most is;
"like the cherry blossom the samurai
falls (acts) without hesitation"

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[1] mixiユーザー 03月10日 07:19

Don't sweat the petty things...
And don't pet the sweaty things :P

Hah, but really, I like:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

[2] mixiユーザー 03月10日 16:23

I really liked 'ignorance is bliss'.

and also 'harmony is only interrupted when you stand in its way'

[4] mixiユーザー 03月10日 18:38

Don't take life too seriously, you'll never make it out alive.

It became my motto since the day I read it.

[5] mixiユーザー 03月10日 19:00

I like
Qué será, será./God will know
It's Japanese saying, and I think it came from the title fo the song.
I tend to worry a lot of things what I shouldn't worry, and it makes things worse,so I always put this saying in my mind.

[6] mixiユーザー 03月10日 19:28

It has to be what my father told me once, i have always stuck by it...

"Never say no to a good thing, you only live once."

[7] mixiユーザー 03月10日 21:14

There are some, but i choose this for now;

"Ino naka no kawazu taikai wo sirazu, saredo sora no aosa wo siru." JAPANESE

I suppose there are a lot of interpretation of this, but
mine is that you'd better live with different kinds of perception and you get to know it by getting out of your home (town, country, any environment). However only knowing that there is another world outside makes things different, even though you stay in the same place all the way.

[8] mixiユーザー 03月11日 00:13

"La vida es una puta mierda"

[9] mixiユーザー 03月11日 09:35

"Live your dreams or die trying"

"Life is about doing useless stuff to the fullest leaving no regrets behind"

And, I don't agree with this one, but this is interesting since many world leaders practice this :
"Better to wrong the world than have it wrong me!" ~ Cao Cao

[10] mixiユーザー 03月11日 10:38

HI Everyone:
Favorite quote:

One can see clearly only with the heart, anything essential is invisible to the eye.

[11] mixiユーザー 03月11日 10:50

See profile.. i'm too lazy..

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