What is the number one rule to learn in life?

[NaMeaHou]

I say

Practice honesty in your daily dealings with others.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. To thine own self be true.

[La_Serpiente]

2. and the truth shall set you free

[populistmom]

4. I agree.

Trying to follow all the "shoulds" in life to please everyone else gets you...well...nowhere really, at least not particularly where you want to be.

[Maple]

3. Tne ONLY thing

you can count on in Life...is change.

[The Lone Liberal]

5. Determine which way the wind is blowing...

before relieving yourself in the woods.

[meti57b]

6. seeing is believing

[seventhson]

16. Ummm, Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see.

Seeing can be deceiving

[UrbScotty]

7. It never (or rarely, if anything) hurts to TRY.

As we get older, do we regret a) the things we did do? or b) the things we didn't do?

[camero]

8. do unto others as you would want them to do unto you

I think, therefore I am. I think.

[MoonAndSun]

9. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

eom

[bloom]

25. I'm voting for this one

"you sow what you reap" goes along with it.

[Bronco69]

10. The only thing we all have in common is diversity

[JaySherman]

11. Learn from your mistakes

Screw up once and you're only human. Keep making the same mistake and you're a fool.

[Lindacooks]

12. Listen to the little voice in your gut

I would have avoided many mistakes in my life if I had just paid attention to that little gut feeling that something about what you're currently doing isn't right. Pay attention to yourself!

[Faygo Kid]

33. That's a good one

Always listen to your gut. It is trying to tell you something important.

[KG]

13. always bring a towel.

:)

[seventhson]

Faith will move mountains, (but bring a shovel)

or

Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.

There's always tomorrow.

Today is the first day of the rest oif your life (use it wisely).

[grannylib]

14. Tell those you love that YOU LOVE THEM while you have the chance...

you never know when that opportunity may disappear forever, in just a hearbeat

[Paragon]

15. The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote:

'A flute with no holes is not a flute,
And a doughnut with no hole is a Danish.'
He was a funny guy."

- Chevy Chase in Caddyshack


"Before I leave, I'd like to share some wisdom I learned from my guru, with whom I studied for 15 long, boring years. I didn't really learn much ... but as I left, he told me something I've never forgotten. I guess that not a day goes by that I don't think of it, and on just such occasions as this I like to share it.

"He said, 'Always...' no, 'Never...' no, 'Always...take a litterbag when you go out driving. It doesn't take up much room and when it's full, you can always toss it out the window.' "

- Steve Martin, from his album "Let's Get Small"

[forgethell]

17. Nobody, but nobody

is going to do it for you!!

[foreigncorrespondent]

18. Respect...

...for everyone, no matter their skin colour, sexuality, gender, etc.

[pasadenaboy]

19. you reap what you sow.

[Nlighten1]

20. Have some tea!

of course.

[Upfront]

21. Get Back Double

What you give out in life you get back double.

[MissMillie]

22. No man is an island (n/t)

.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. "If I die, I die....

-fuck it- it's not the end of the world" - Albert Ellis

Hey, I just finished reading an article on him in The New Yorker, Oct.13, 2003.

[Red State Rebel]

24. You alone are responsible for your happiness.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

26. Righty tighty, lefty loosey.

[Endangered Specie]

27. better known as the right hand rule:

Say for a screw: curl fingers of RIGHT hand in direction of turning, thumb points where nut goes. Thats how you get 'right hand' groove to describe a screws grooves

[NaMeaHou]

29. Unless it's a '67 Chrysler Newport

for some reason, it was reversed.

[Endangered Specie]

30. guess those are

'left hand' screws, use your left hand to do those.

[Endangered Specie]

28. God gave you

two ears and one mouth, therefore, listen at least twice as much as you talk.

[TOhioLiberal]

31. Mine!

Do unto other as you would have done to you.

NOT THE TYPICAL REPUBLICAN VERSION:

Do unto others and RUN! :eyes:

[Faygo Kid]

32. This too shall pass

The older I get, the more it is true. Includes the good, sadly, as well as the bad.

[philosophie_en_rose]

34. Life is Sweet.

For they told you life is hard
Misery from the start, it's dull,
It's slow, it's painful
But I tell you life is sweet
In spite of the misery
There's so much more, be grateful

[whirlygigspin]

35. Don't count your chickens...

just delay the vote count until you win.

[ewagner]

36. From the comic strip "Pogo"

"Don't take life too serious...it ain't nohow permanent anyway"

[kodi]

55. "nobody gets outta' here alive."

of course in my case i am hoping for an exception to the rule.

[Sting]

37. D.T.A....

Don't Trust Anyone. I find it rather difficult to trust these days.

[Tredge]

39. A philosophical man

I've always tried to live my life according to the precepts set down by Stone Cold Steve Austin.

"Do unto others before they do it unto you." I don't think that's something he said, but I think he would agree nonetheless.

[Catshrink]

38. You can't always get what you want....

but if your try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.

[bif]

40. You're no better than anyone else on the planet

[VelmaD]

41. Wisdom from my father

Never play someone else's game for money.

If they try to bet you $50 bucks they can do something...believe them. It's a scam. :-)

[bif]

42. You're no better than anyone else on the planet

n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Love yourself...

or don't even bother getting out of bed. :)

[Buns_of_Fire]

44. If you fart, burp, cough, sneeze, and hiccup all at the same time...

...you explode.

[NoPasaran]

45. Clean up your mess

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

46. That there is no number one rule to learn in life in life

[GOPisEvil]

48. Sure there is...except the list is horizontal, not vertical.

Sorta like my gold-plated shit list. EVERYBODY on it is on top! :evilgrin:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

47. "Life" .......that it's wasted on youth......

i wish that i knew what i know now, when i was younger

[Drifter]

49. Juggling ...

Many people think that Jugglers work hard to defeat gravity. This is simply not true, as gravity will always have the final say.

Jugglers instead learn to work in harmony with gravity to create spectacular visual feats (many call juggling visual music).

Now simply apply this knowledge to every challenge you face.

Cheers
Drifter

[Loonman]

50. Don't be a dumbass

:)

[onebigbadwulf]

51. Edcuate yourself

everything else falls in place

[FunBobbyMucha]

52. I'm waiting for the day I can tell my son...

...who is three right now, what I've garnered from life. I see us walking by a lake, and he asked me about the meaning of life. I pick up a stone and throw it in the lake, and we watch the splash ring spread out. Then I throw a much smaller pebble in, and we watch its much smaller ring spread out. "You can make a big splash or a small splash," I'll say, "but in the end, it's just a splash that will be forgotten about, as though it never happened. The only thing that matters is that the surface of the water returns to calm."

[electricmonk]

53. There are some times

When you do not go back for your bag and some times when you do. The trick is to distinquish between the two types of occasions.

[ArkDem]

54. "Am I elected, yet?"

Zippy the Pinhead