Common Sense for Living: Wise Sayings in Other Words(Expanded Edition)

Man sacrifices his health to make money, then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. He is so anxious about the future, that he doesn't enjoy the present. And he lives as if he's never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. Born July 6, What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? So I always ask the question, "what would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? I said you want to teach in a riding school? What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something, which the individual says he really wants to do, I will say to him, you do that and forget the money, because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way. What do I desire? What if you had the Power? But it's not just what you desire, it's also what the world needs you to do. What is the most important work that needs to be done? What are the priorities and the responsibilities in our current stage of life that would make living more enjoyable and more stable? There are probably thousands of choices to choose from. You should know how to measure value.

What is the meaning of Life? Why do we Exist? What is the Point of Life? How do I find Myself? You are not a stranger here. Well, life is a murder mystery, and it's time that we figured it out. But not just to solve this mystery, but to keep these types of mysteries from ruining our lives ever again. George Moore If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.

You may be dead. Gelett Burgess The man who views the world at fifty the same way as he did at twenty, he has wasted thirty years of his life. What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit. The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

Jong No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain "The world ain't what it seems Youtube If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts. So it may not have the same meaning or have the same value from person to person. So what does it mean? Document it and move on..

Philosophy by itself is insignificant. Just like one piece to a puzzle. But when Philosophy is added to all the other pieces of life it helps to give a more complete picture. Philosophy also makes you aware of other questions you never thought of asking Howard Polley "If there's ever a moment in your life that becomes boring , it's because you're not doing it right. If you want to test your Memory try to remember what you were worrying about a year ago today. Joseph Cossman If you are looking for a way out, don't forget, that finding a way in might end up being the way out.

The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. One finger cannot lift a pebble. Hopih He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. Aldous Huxley More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. Being aware of a mistake and understanding it is the first step to correcting it. No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.

Danish Proverbs Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal If you have a skeleton in your closet, take it out and dance with it. Carolyn MacKenzie Do you see the world as it is, or do you see the world as you are? Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Fred Astaire Quotes The uncontrollable Randomness of unconscious thinking. You really need to have a reset point. And you need to activate it everyday. The traits that define you, the dimensions that define your goals, your dreams, your ambitions.

Howard Polley I feel like I met you before Why do some people look so much alike even though they are not related? Doppelganger is a look-alike or double of a living person. There are a lot of people who look like celebrities. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. It's hard to imagine a more beautiful plan for life to survive.

Life created humans to preserve life, and our training is near completion. Connected "Never Let them see you Sweat. Don't let people get under your skin and don't let people rent space in your head. Worry Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you. Bishop Steere There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. Bishop Steere I define comfort as self-acceptance.

When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. Jennifer Louden Life is harmonious coordination of energy and matter, of such sophisticated construction and efficiency as to appear divinely ordained and self sustaining.

Ankh is the key of life. Knowledge is the Key to the Universe. Talisman is an object believed to contain certain magical properties thought to draw good luck to the possessor, or offer the possessor protection from possible evil or harm. In a Maze , Real or Game, if you touch your hand to the right wall and keep moving you will eventually reach the exit. A Labyrinth is a little different, one way in and one way out. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: Robert Frost "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'. Howard Polley Life, I still can't believe how amazing it is, no matter how much you know, you will never know everything at once, and there lies the beauty of life.

You can't control everything, but who would want too? Trying to control everything would be to much work and not enough life. Like being every where and no where at once. It seems the more you examine life, the more logic you see. Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow.

Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful. Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for expectance, and my kindness for weakness. Remember, don't allow other people to control your thinking, and don't allow outside forces to intrude on your wellbeing.

• Recently Added Lessons.
• Lean and Hard: The Body Youve Always Wanted in Just 24 Workouts?
• Pre-Calculus-simpleNeasyBook?
• Knowledge Base?
• Life Quotes.
• Life Quotes and Famous Quotes and Sayings about Life in General?
• The Case and the Girl.

Remember that you have abilities, and remember that you also have a brain, which means that you have controls, so don't stress yourself. It's healthier to logically think about things then it is to just worry about things. You'll figure it out. And when you're tired, Rest. Learn to relax every part of your body, especially the face and the stomach area. It's your life, enjoy the fucking shit out of it. We too go forward, but we can also go left, right, up, down, and back.

We are particles, but we all ride the wave. Be careful of your thoughts, negative thoughts are unhealthy for you, choose your thoughts well. Be careful what you say, negative words are unhealthy for others, choose your words well. We must understand the differences between what is logical, and, what is illogical. In order to know what logical is, you must also know what illogical is. Lacking orderly continuity or union. Now lets take the ill out of 'ill'ogical. Resulting in suffering or adversity.

Indicating hostility or enmity.

Understanding

Unfavorably or with disapproval. With difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly. An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining. To go deeper into what being ill is, read about know thyself and mental health. Logical is being capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning. Based on known statements or events or conditions.

Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner. The opposite of ill is well. Well is being in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard. To a suitable or appropriate extent or degree.

Discretion in practical affairs. Wise or advantageous and Worthy of being recommended or suggested. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or unusual distress. With prudence or propriety. Indicating high probability; in all likelihood. Using correct or appropriate behavior, with good humor, without resentment. With great or especially intimate knowledge.

To a great extent or degree. Thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form. To go deeper into what being well is, read about Morals and Ethics. Everything Happens for a Reason Things do happen for a reason, but not the reasons you're thinking of or know of. Everything happens for a reason because everything is cause and effect. But the problem with everything being cause and effect is that you can't be aware of everything , and the things that you are aware of, you will not always fully understand.

So saying that everything happens for a reason, is an extremely idiotic idiom. Of course most things have to happen for a reason, if not, then we would not be here. This is what we know. We have been examining why things happen, and because of that, we know why certain things do happen. But only because we investigated, researched and tested these things. But not everyone has the ability to analyze their life so deeply as to be fully aware of all the cause and effects that are happening all around them for every second of every day. But luckily God gave us a memory , and if we use our memory correctly, learning becomes our most powerful ability that we have.

Learning is our power, but most of us are not even aware of this power. Learning is being extremely underutilized. It's like buying a computer with a gig hard drive but only using 20 gig. So What's the Point of having that much capacity if you are never going to use it? You're wasting more then just space, you're wasting potential , and power.

If everything on your hard drive gave you more abilities and more potential and more power, you would definitely want to take advantage of your hard drive's ability, especially the ability to store knowledge and information. But what if you never learned how to maximize this ability?

You have to learn the right knowledge at the right time in order to have learning be the most effective and the most efficient. And if you're learning the wrong things at the wrong times , that's extremely ineffective and inefficient, with serious side effects, like war, unemployment, corruption, crimes, and on and so on.

Believing that there's a reason for everything does not mean that everything is explained. You can only go to a certain point, and then the information stops. This means that you don't know of any other reasons that there might be, so you can only understand the cause of something to a certain point. And you can't go further unless there's some type of a signal. It doesn't mean that there is nothing there, it just can't be detected or understood using our current sensors and technologies.

Knowing the root cause will always have its benefits, but there is still no guarantee that your understanding will be accurate. One thing is for certain, you can't stop learning. Every single luxury and technology that people have today is the result of people learning. And all the bad things that we have today in society is from people not learning. Things happen for a reason, but who's reason is it?

You can't be aware of every single scenario because you don't have all the information. So if God does have a reason, then how would you know what that reason is? Am I supposed to figure this out? It seems the best I can do is to guess what the reason may be by knowing as many different scenarios as possible, and also to keep learning and adding to what I know. If there is one reason, it is to learn from things that happen in life , but you have to be aware of them in order to learn from them.

And Free Will is having a conscience , one that is learned and understood accurately. In law capacity is the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior. Capability to perform or produce. The maximum production possible. The amount that can be contained. In computer science capacity is the amount of information in bytes that can be stored on a disk drive , or in this case, The Human Brain and its Memory.

Serendipity is the unexpected and fortunate discoveries , usually happening when looking for something unrelated.

• Conflict on the Compass Rose: Anglo-Portuguese Cooperation and Competition in Africa.
• Explore Topics.
• Perspectives on Intellectual Capital: Multidisciplinary Insights Into Management, Measurement, and Reporting.
• .
• Die Intelligenz der Regeln: Eine pragmatische Theorie der Sprache und des Denkens (German Edition)!
• Common Sense Quotes - BrainyQuote?
• Thomas Paine's Common Sense - Lesson Plan.

Finding something nice while looking for something else. Coincidence - Inventions gimmicks - It's all Relative Luck is an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome. There is no Failure. Fate is the belief that certain events are destined to happen in a particular and are beyond a person's control because they are determined by a supernatural power or intervention.

Destiny is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Expected is something that is considered likely or probable to happen or likely to arrive. Anticipate is to regard something as probable or likely to happen. A prediction that allows you to act in advance in order to deal with something or be ready for something ahead of time. I don't believe that everything happens for a reason , but I do believe that something's do happen for a reason, not everything, but some things do happen for a reason.

Whether it's good luck or bad luck, some of the things that happen to you, teach you something , if it didn't, then you wouldn't be reading this right now. Because, what you learned is the most important thing that you can take with you after an experience, knowledge is key. Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect 2. Remain close to the Great Spirit 3. Show great respect for your fellow beings 4. Work together for the benefit of all Mankind 5.

Give assistance and kindness wherever needed 6. Do what you know to be right 7. Look after the well-being of Mind and Body 8. Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater Good 9. Be truthful and honest at all times Take full responsibility for your actions Religious sayings Simple Simple Living encompasses a number of different logical practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include reducing one's possessions and reducing waste. Simple living may be generally referred to as Minimalism or increasing self-sufficiency.

Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they have rather than what they want. FMO Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple. Something which is easy to understand or explain, in contrast to something complicated. Something is simple or complex depending on the way we choose to describe it. In some uses, the label "simplicity" can imply beauty, purity, or clarity.

Simpler is having few parts that are not complex or complicated or involved and easy to understand , exhibiting childlike simplicity and being trustworthy. Simple is something that is easy and not complicated or hard, something that you will not have to struggle with. Easy is being relaxed and free from worry and being without hardship or anxiety and a source of pleasure. Minimalism is reducing things in life down to its necessary elements and essential quality.

More is Less and Less is More. Less worries and less work means more fun and more time. KISS Principle is a design principle that states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated, therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design , and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid". Variations on the phrase include: Drawdown is the reduction and the lowering of the quantity of something.

Drawdown can also be seen as reducing waste or reducing clutter. Downsize is to reduce the number of things that you don't need. Complicated is something that is difficult to analyze or to understand because it has many parts that require lots of knowledge and skill in order to operate effectively and efficiently. Degree of Difficulty is a concept used in several sports and other competitions to indicate the technical difficulty of a skill , performance, or course, often as a factor in scoring. Dematerialization in economics refers to the absolute or relative reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions in society.

In common terms, dematerialization means doing more with less. Ephemeralization is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," that is, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of achieving the same or more output products, services, information, etc.

Gloria Elena Adams and they have four children. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Learn more at Author Central. Popularity Popularity Featured Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Avg. A Psalm to Remember: Belief Matters and Faith Works May 04, Available for download now. Available to ship in days. Only 3 left in stock - order soon. Principles of Belief and Practices of Faith: A Guide to Successful Living, Vol. A Guide to Successful Living Mar 26, Common Sense for Living: Provide feedback about this page.

There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Get to Know Us. English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers.