Main focus is remain focused
YOLO (You only live once) and keep moving forward
Only commit one crime at a time.
“Your rights end where another’s begin.”
A nicely summarized mantra to push back on the paradox of tolerance. Many people use free speech, free market, etc, as an excuse to impede others, and this is my response to that.
I like this phrase in the context of competing access needs when it comes to disabilities. Sometimes, multiple disabled people may struggle to find a solution that works for everyone, and it’s never easy. Everyone may have a right to exist in a space, but if what you need to make that happen would prevent someone else from being able to, then it sort of stops being a right in that moment, and becomes a discussion.
As someone with multiple disabilities and many disabled friends, it’s something I’ve seen quite often. Examples include:
- A person with an assistance dog and a person with a severe allergy to dogs
- One autistic person whose safe food has a strong smell that is a sensory trigger for another autistic person in the same space
There’s a version of that one I like which goes something like, “your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
“Anything for a weird life.”
Said by Zaphod Beeblebrox in the original radio version of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in response to being led by another character into the zany peril of the moment.
“It’s better to fart into the toilet than to shit into your pants.”
One of my own making after a particularly bad gut bug.
Be kind.
Everything is relative.
Motivation is not required
As a disabled person who’s spent most of her life in abusive relationships if I waited for motivation to get things done I’d be long since dead
Related on the same topic: Don’t wait for the perfect ingredients, get going with something that is good enough. I have seen many cases where someone has waited to start doing something creative because they want better hardware first (And I have caught myself in this too). This is called the tool fallacy, and stifled creativity. So many songs never recorded. So many pictures never painted.
My grandfather (who died well before my time), but I picked up the saying from my mum;
“Pray to God, but row to shore”
My sister gave me the following to bring me up from the depths of despair, and to bring me back to earth before I make an Icarus of myself:
“This too shall pass”
The golden rule. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Leave it better than you found it
Be excellent to each other.
and Party On, dude.
Other ones I have:
-egos trip. But the humble doesn’t stumble.
-if you’re not talking income, then walking outs the outcome
-talk to me nice. Or don’t talk to me twice.
-Minor setback for a major get back
-the reasons change like seasons change.
“Ever Tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” - Samuel Beckett
If the women didn’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy
