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Educational-Act-6602 , Vidal Balielo Jr. Report

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget When you're about to become a parent the amount of s**t you get told is unreal. Parents can't wait to tell you "you'll get no sleep, you'll have no life, it's all changing nappies etc"
However, I was in a meeting with a guy at work, we were making small talk before the meeting and I told him I was about to become a dad expecting the usual. Instead he just went really deep but really chilled and just went "you're about to have the most amazing thing happen to you ever but never forget, they're not yours. You're just borrowing them while they need you but you need to get them ready to not need you anymore." The older my kids get the more I appreciate it

Final score:

287points

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JalaPeno 1 year ago

That's beautiful and I wish more people were brave enough to say this ❤️

62points

TrailerParkPrepper , Clem Onojeghuo Report

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "It's because of what we went through that we are where we are." (in a good way)

My Wife. (speaking of my alcoholism)

6 years sober

Final score:

238points

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Nicola Mawson 1 year ago

I'll always up vote someone in recovery

67points

In fact, it is impossible to find completely universal words of wisdom even for two different people, because each of us perceives advice in completely different ways. Yes, even if we take such a universal thing as the Ten Commandments of Christianity, which actually contain a direct recommendation, for example: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor!" Hey, but after all, each of us probably has an overly entitled neighbor and, perhaps, many of us have violated this commandment... Therefore, you should not take any advice read here as a direct guide to action.

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "Better a terrible end than a horror without end."

This was said by a friend of mine who had been fighting cancer for a long time . He died the next day , after years of struggle and 4 remissions .

Yairam2305 , Ana Arantes Report

Final score:

192points

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InfiniteZeek 1 year ago

F**k cancer!

79points

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "Yes, of course, heaven and hell are great and terrifying and all. But what if you did good just for the sake of it? No eternal reward or punishment afterward. Would you still do good if you knew at the end, there ***is no*** reward?"

Started me down the path of deconstructing my faith and leaving religion behind. Thank you random lady I talked to in line at comic book day back in 2014 in Moncton.

roguereider1 , Johannes Plenio Report

Final score:

187points

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Sprouted Tater 1 year ago

When I often hear random folks in convos with others say “I’m a Christian”…I think, uh oh there’s got to be a ‘but’ in there somewhere. If you are a follower of Christ, live it don’t broadcast it!

47points

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Prepare your child for the road, not the road for your child.

dvmdv8 , Tatiana Syrikova Report

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172points

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G.O.A.L. 1 year ago

Right! Stop coddling your kids

30points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

There's a difficult balance between "coddling" and being a decent parent who protects thier kids until they are ready for the world. I grew up in a dangerous city. I'm bringing my daughter up in a safe city. I'm MUCH more aware of the dangers. But I don;t want to expose her to dangers for no reason. That's not coddling, that's being sensible.

16points

Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago

The next generation is going to have a harder life than any of the last three generations. Let the kids be kids for a while and stop bitching about how they're "soft". The odds are they're going to have it harder than you ever did.

9points

Marion Vambre 1 year ago

" Let the kids be kids for a while and stop bitching about how they're "soft " . Yes ! Thank you !

2points

Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

Why not both? Isn't the whole point to leave your kids with a better world?

5points

Orion Red 1 year ago

But still clear the road of danger when you can. Like not letting zealots take over govt.

3points

Theora Fifty-five Johnson 1 year ago

This is more true as they grow up. Little kids need the world to adapt to them a lot, older kids need to learn to adapt.

1point

Hans Georg 1 year ago

Why not? Why not destroy the corrupted system?

1point

Auntriarch 1 year ago

I got the impression they meant padding the corrupted system for their child

1point

John Murphy 1 year ago

this would get 4K negative karma on reddit

0points

HolyDiver 1 year ago

Screaming at the sky about 'the system' does nothing. Adapt to thrive in the system and be the best human you can. People are more likely to change when you live by example.

0points

Colleen Glim 1 year ago

Or maybe do your best to change the system. It takes a village style of thing

0points

Glen Ellyn 1 year ago

This one thing I learned from one of those often boring graduation speeches. Good parenting is about loving your children unconditionally, but also learning to let go. In other words, as your child grows, allow them gradual, age-appropriate autonomy and freedom in their lives. That's how they learn responsibility and how to cope in the big, wide world.

0points

David A Paterson 1 year ago

Not possible. Best you can do is prepare the road for your child.

0points

For some reason, some people believe that only a person with exceptional life experience like that which comes with old age can give wise advice. "This opinion comes from prehistoric times, when literally the survival of the human race was sometimes at stake," says Vladimir Nemertsalov, a teacher and school principal from Odessa, Ukraine, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment on this post. "When any person who lived to a certain, for example, old age, by default had tremendous experience of survival, and whose opinion from this angle was worth listening to. But now the situation is fundamentally changing."

"Firstly, humanity has not faced issues of survival for a long time, and secondly, the life experience that was relevant a couple of decades ago, today, may turn out to be not only useless - even sometimes harmful. Yes, in the modern world, many young people can have truly priceless skills and experiences that some older people never even dreamed of. No offense, but sometimes it happens just like that," Vladimir supposes.

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Ive always liked the quote "Sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing" and I think it's more important than ever in our 'cancel culture' society.

little-bird89 , S Migaj Report

Final score:

171points

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Ba-Na-Na 1 year ago

Or sometimes a hypocrite just is a hypocrite. Like my Dad-I couldn’t do something because he didn’t like the idea. Then he would turn around and do it-like it but still forbid me from doing it. Like going to a sports bar for example…

20points

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget A persons actions are a reflection of their character, not yours

YallMindIfIJoin , Dương Nhân Report

Final score:

153points

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Sprouted Tater 1 year ago

I needed to read this, been a tough year in a gossipy ‘hood

30points

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget It's not that deep, but I heard it as a sophomore in college (remember that hormonal swamp that is your late teens?) and it just floored me.

"The opposite of love isn't hate; it's complete and utter indifference."

dragonfeet1 , Korney Violin Report

Final score:

153points

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. For if you love me I will always be in your heart; if you hate me I will always be in your mind." Shakespeare.

66points

What can I say, sometimes inspiration comes not only from words, but simply from actions - and often not even from people. For example, according to a medieval legend, after some kind of heavy defeat in his youth, the Asian commander Tamerlane saw how an ant stubbornly tried to crawl onto a flower stem, falling, getting up - and crawling again. Over and over... Well, the great conqueror of the Middle Ages is probably not the best role model, but the legend itself, you see, is incredibly instructive and beautiful.

#10

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "Don't focus on always being happy, focus on always being content."

Always being happy is an unrealistic goal, but you can always be content with the way things are.

Blamebostonx , Fox Report

Final score:

144points

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Sonja 1 year ago

This did a lot for me while in therapy. With depression it's impossible to gain happiness, but even at your worst days tiny moments of contentment are indeed possible. If you look back on your bad day and see all you have still managed to do, you can be quite content. Sometimes it's enough to know it could have been worse to reach a nice equilibrium of emotions that doesn't feel too bad and fills the gaping maw of depression just enough to find the strength to go on. It's much better to settle with that nice calm of content than dealing with the desperation of being unable to feel happiness no matter how hard you try

39points

#11

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget I stopped giving a s**t about my birthday since I was 27. I used to request off or at least the day after off to recover from the previous night but I just stopped caring. Last year, an old lady at my job found out it was my birthday and surprised me with a card with money in it, the kind of way a grandma would. I tried to tell her it wasn't a big deal and give the money back but she insisted saying "You should always celebrate your birthday. You don't know how many you have left."

Sol-Blackguy , Ami Suhzu Report

Final score:

142points

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago

Dàmn, that’s deep.

23points

#12

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Sometimes, the best way to help someone is to let them help you. You may not need their help, but it will make them feel useful.

Armor_Armadillo , Rémi Walle Report

Final score:

141points

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AliJanx 1 year ago

I learned this when my husband died and then 6 mos later I got cancer. None of my friends could fix the situation but they all wanted to do something, anything to make it better. I learned that Grace is saying yes to someone's offer to help. Saying yes to help isn't easy for me, truthfully, but I had to.

54points

Interestingly, from a linguistic point of view, wise words often become simple examples of opposition and inversion. For example, "prepare your child for the road, not the road for your child" or maybe "enjoy art in yourself, not yourself in art." It works flawlessly, by the way, so here's another wise piece of advice, this time directly from me: comment the selection, don't select the comments! But seriously, any words that you have heard from others that have changed your life for the better should actually be considered wise. So please let us know these words too, and maybe they will come in handy to someone, who knows?

#13

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget The grass is greener where you water it

Acceptable_Cup_3015 , Liis Saar Report

Final score:

134points

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Cosmologist wannabe 1 year ago (edited)

The snow is yellower where You pisss on it. I still get what the quote means.

43points

#14

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget “You can’t keep in giving someone the benefit of the doubt when they get all the benefits and you get all the doubts.”

BigBadBootyDaddy10 , Vera Arsic Report

Final score:

133points

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Vermonta 1 year ago

Like when someone keeps apologizing for doing the same thing over and over. I'm sorry is not a get out of jail free card

35points

#15

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Grief is the price we pay for love. And it’s a bargain.

khmergodzeus , Ben White Report

Final score:

125points

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Sonja 1 year ago

No, it's not a bargain. It's very, very expensive. But it's well worth the price.

82points

#16

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget A teacher in high-school was teaching literature but his whole curriculum had anti-capitlism and especially anti commercial vibes, and being a teenage s**t head I pushed back against him at every chance. One day after class I basically just said "you teach like everything is terrible but I'm alive and know things aren't that bad"

To which he replied "imagine an outhouse. You know how when you walk into the outhouse the smell is almost overwhelmingly terrible? But once you've been in there for a bit, your nose acclimates and you start to notice it less right? Now imagine you're born in, and live your whole life inside an outhouse, never once leaving. How do you respond when someone comes in and tells you your house stinks?"

Probably the number one most important lesson I learned in my entire education career.

thebravestkoala , Jim Bahn Report

Final score:

122points

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InfiniteZeek 1 year ago

The outhouse?! I was born in it, molded by it.

24points

#17

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "It's better to appear rude and live than to be nice and get killed." This was from a self defense instructor, and it just blew my mind. They were talking about listening to your instincts, and not worrying about appearing rude when your gut is telling you something is off.

Unhygienictree , Liza Summer Report

Final score:

122points

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Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago (edited)

This is my issue with "when they go low, we go high!" Self-righteousness doesn't stop bullets. History is written by the victors, and the graveyards of the world are full of dead martyrs of lost causes. Decent people need to be willing to do whatever is necessary to make the world better for their children, because otherwise the world will continue to get steadily worse. You can weep for your moral high ground later.

35points

Pass_the_Lasagna , Lukas Rychvalsky Report

#18

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget A 5 year old told me "Loneliness is when you have lost yourself."

Final score:

112points

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I_am_a_dinosaur 1 year ago

Children can be the most interesting people to talk to. They have so much to say but the majority of people don’t listen

44points

#19

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget If someone you like doesn't like you back, as hard as it is you have to let them go. If you truly care about them, as you claim you do, respect them when they say their happiness is without you. Otherwise trying to force it is now only about you, and that's not love or friendship

llcucf80 , Rachel Claire Report

Final score:

107points

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Sprouted Tater 1 year ago

Reminds me of the so, so sad song “I can’t make you love me if you don’t”, right about the time husband left me for another. Sad then, now, happy solo.

43points

#20

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget “Worry is not preparation.”

Big-Routine222 , Nathan Cowley Report

Final score:

105points

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Sonja 1 year ago

And worry lessens if you prepare well. If you feel worried, sit back, take a deep breath and go through everything you could do for real preparation. Make a list of everything you can do and put a checkmark behind everything that's already done. It does help. At first one has to force oneself to do it methodically, worry wants you running around like a headless chicken, it's hard to fight worry and go back to that list. But if you manage to force yourself to prepare calmly, the worry will lessen considerably

16points

#21

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Maybe not the deepest thing I've ever heard but definitely something that changed my life the most over time: "You become an adult when you realize your parents are just people."

It might seem obvious but when you're in an unhealthy, borderline Stockholm-esque home life when you're young, that realization can slap.

NautNymph , Emma Bauso Report

Final score:

101points

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Nichole Harris 1 year ago

OMG this realization brought me sooooooo much peace and allowed me to put to rest so many hurts.....

18points

thehazzanator , Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas Report

#22

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget My dad told me he's been thinking of me every single day of my life since I was born. He kept a note of my birthday and name on his fridge the day he learnt it.

We met for the first time when I was 25. He died that month.
My horrible mum convinced me he hated me, and wanted nothing to do with me, my whole life.
What a waste.

Final score:

101points

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I_am_a_dinosaur 1 year ago

That is a waste, but I think I would rather know for sure than not know and anyway you did get the best outcome of that. You found out your dad loved you dearly and that your mom was a terrible person

38points

#23

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Only floss the teeth you want to keep.

GoBSAGo , Sora Shimazaki Report

Final score:

98points

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Gémeaux jumeaux 1 year ago

Reminds me of the large, carved wooden sign at my childhood dentist's office, which read in big, swoopy rainbow letters, "Ignore your teeth, and they'll go away"🌈🦷

27points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#24

Even when you are right you don't always win.

Curlytomato Report

Final score:

94points

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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago

I finally learned, as I matured, that I don't have to win every debate or correct everyone's facts. It's kinder and more peaceable to concede the point and in most cases it makes absolutely no difference in the end.

23points

#25

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget When I found that the uncle who raised me after my parents died was actually my biological father, the mix of extreme emotions was hard to process. I couldn't understand why he wouldn't have told me the truth after they died. I confronted him about it, demanding answers. He said "I'd rather be your father, even if you couldn't know it, than to break my word to your mother." I gained so much perspective on who he was as a person in that moment. The sacrifice he made for the sake of my mother's memory blew me away. He loved her so much, even after she died, that he held that truth inside for nearly 30 years. I still wish I'd known sooner, but the respect I gained for him, that level of selflessness....I can only dream of finding a love like that some day.

wetforhouseplants , Josh Willink Report

Final score:

88points

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Scotira 1 year ago (edited)

I needed a bit backstory so I looked up the original. Seems that her mom and bio dad were a couple. They broke up bc he had to move for a job and she didn't want to go with him. After some time she married bio dads brother and had children with him. When later bio dad returned to his home town they had an affair with a child as a result. Mom then died in childbirth before the planned divorce had happened. Her stepfather mistreated her out of resentment before dying himself when she was 7/8. She then went to live with her "uncle" and found out later on that her uncle was actually her bio dad. Seems that the whole family decided not to tell her the truth about the whole thing and bio dad respected the wish of the mother. Bio dad died unexpectedly not long after she discovered all this 😢

52points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#26

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget “Why tiptoe through life to arrive safely at death?”

Although you also have the opposite, "I would rather be late in this life, than early in the next".

liberaliar , Craig Adderley Report

Final score:

73points

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Steve D 1 year ago

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" ~Hunter S. Thompson

46points

Slight_Bodybuilder25 , Jordan Benton Report

#27

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Dont be afraid of fear. Fear is natural and encourages thought and action.
Do not, however, give in to panic. It is irrational and can lead you to harm.

Final score:

72points

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Lyoness 1 year ago

As long as we're clear that having an actual panic attack isn't "giving in". Semantics, yes, but an important distinction. .

30points

#28

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget I'm a rep at a cellphone store and an old Austrian woman, a reg customer of mine said randomly "Chelsea, all we have in this very second is each other. Right now all we have is eachother. There is nothing but this one second right now. You see, people drag the past with them and that's why there is so little forgiveness in the world."

Afterwards we both cried together a little and that has positively effected every day of my life since.

chemto90 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

58points

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InfiniteZeek 1 year ago

There is only the present, that is all we ever get to experience.

15points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#29

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget It’s more like good advice rather than being very deep but my dad always told me to “look at people, not through them”. I never thought much about it, but I noticed when I remembered it in the back of my mind while having a conversation with someone, you could tell a noticeable difference in their comfortability. I always make a point to do it now.

FreshHotPoop , Oleksandr P Report

Final score:

57points

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Wise dad

11points

#30

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget All that you’ve gone through: the good, the bad, the in between has led you to exactly where you are now. You had to go through it all in order to be here, with me now.

tvaldez19 , James Wheeler Report

Final score:

56points

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Cyber Returns 1 year ago

"When they made you, they didn't break the mould. You are still in it, and you have to make yourself" - My Mom

17points

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#31

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success, doesn't do us any good.

Read it somewhere.

yakuzamax , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

22points

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

"hypothetical eternal state of success". Success always leads directly to failure. Success breeds jealousy. Jealousy breeds competition. Competition breeds security. Security breeds secrecy. Secrecy breeds corruption. Corruption breeds failure. The seeds of failure are in every success.

2points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#32

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel the warmth - read it on Pinterest

Magic_mushroom0601 Report

Final score:

22points

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Captain McSmoot 1 year ago

This is why it's so important to keep matches out of the reach of children. That matchbox warning label ain't no joke.

12points

Ok_Ranger_6134 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

#33

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget 'You like to think outside of the box, most people are too stupid to know that the box is there'.

Final score:

20points

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Strings 1 year ago

I prefer to refuse acknowledging that there's a box to get into

8points

#34

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget “Everyone is someone else and they’re all just trying to find themselves. Let them.”

bulitproofwest , Tegan Mierle Report

Final score:

16points

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Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago

Most people aren't trying to find themselves. They're just flailing. They don't known what they're looking for. They don't even know that they're looking.

6points

Rainbow_Panda4 , SHVETS production Report

#35

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, "Would an idiot do that?" And if they would, I do not do that thing.

Final score:

16points

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TV Junkie 1 year ago

It's a Dwight Schrute quote from The Office.

8points

#36

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget My lawyer cousin said, "Justice is expensive" when advising me to settle in a lawsuit that really I wanted to crush someone. He was right, and I let it go. It took a while.

Nightcalm , Sora Shimazaki Report

Final score:

15points

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Julia H 1 year ago

Justice is too expensive when there is none. I wanted to really hurt the person who called CPS after negative feedback. No one would help without more money than I had. I'd love to say no one listened. The people who counted listened

6points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#37

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "yes, someone should do something about that. who are you? a nobody?"

I have long struggled with feelings of inferiority and whatnot, that kind of helped out.

Burning_Monkey Report

Final score:

14points

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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago

Yep. When people say "someone should do something" they mean "someone ELSE should do something".

5points

#38

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget "People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan" is something my father has said to me multiple times

anon , Christina Morillo Report

Final score:

13points

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

"Plans are nothing, but planning is everything." - Dwight Eisenhower

3points

#39

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you

s4burf , Magda Ehlers Report

Final score:

13points

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Sprouted Tater 1 year ago

Also, ‘sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug’

11points

#40

"One day I was walkin', and I found this big log
And I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick
And I was like, "That log had a child!""

Devon_Hitchens Report

Final score:

13points

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Stevo 1 year ago

Deep thoughts...

8points

#41

30 Things That Someone Said To Folks In This Online Group That Were Too Deep To Forget To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: **"Bachelors should be taxed and heavily so. It is not fair that some men should be so much happier than others."**

This one made my dad crack up the first time he heard it.

**EDIT:** I'll also add "You can always count on yourself if you use your fingers."

liberaliar , Chinmay Singh Report

Final score:

12points

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Alvia Vseobecna 1 year ago

in communist countries there was such a tax.... for being single. People over 25, I think.

2points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#42

My Mom said to me once "Sweetheart don't go through life reading a road map, make your own path".....

Content_Pool_1391 Report

Final score:

5points

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Sonja 1 year ago

That's a stupid advice that rarely works. You'll need to look at the map first even when you want to make a new path, otherwise you could find yourself on a downtrodden road that ends in a tar pit and what looked like a good opportunity ends up to be a sticky mess

6points

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von Funnyname 1 year ago

"If you're the smartest person in the room, it's time to find a new room" has always stuck with me over the years.

17points

Donnaebb 1 year ago

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Scotira 1 year ago

There is this one German proverb every German child has prob heard a thousand times which I always resented : Der Klügere gibt immer nach (the smart one always gives in). Years ago I overheard an argument where one threw in this cràppy piece of wisdom which was immediately countered by "Wenn der Klügere immer nachgibt, regieren die Dummen die Welt" (If the smart one always gives in, then the stupid will rule the world.) This struck me like lightning and stayed with me ever since. Sometimes you just have to make a stand and not give in!

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David A Paterson 1 year ago (edited)

I prefer "never argue with an idiot, people won't know the difference". That said, arguing with an idiot in private can be great fun.

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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

The phrase I espouse the most is "you can't fill someone else's cup when your own is empty". That is, if you do not help yourself, how can you help anyone else? It's just a slightly more abstract version of 'place your own mask before assisting others'.

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Elizabeth S 1 year ago

Right one I constantly share with other people is the same adage just worded differently "You cannot pour from an empty cup."

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Rick Seiden 1 year ago

Some people won't like you and they won't have a reason to not like you. And that's OK. It doesn't make you a bad person, and it doesn't automatically make them a bad person.

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

When I was struggling to cope, a woman whose wisdom I admire said "I think coping is overrated" and it changed my life. Have that emotional meltdown. Have that nervous breakdown. Allow yourself to fail. No biggie.

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Jonathan Kilpatrick 1 year ago

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame" -Uncle Iroh

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T.O.S.o.R. 1 year ago

If it hurts when you do that, DON'T do that! My Dad's famous response after many scrapes, bumps and bruises.

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BookFanatic 1 year ago

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision to continue on in spite of the fear."

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Rick Seiden 1 year ago

Wil Wheaton: Don't be a d**k

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Prince of Darkness 1 year ago

if by "deep" you mean "pseudointellectual nonsense" then yeah, they're pretty "deep"

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

These are actually rather good

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

There is something I need this say here. Something very profound and important. I wonder what it is.

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Trish Greene 1 year ago

My favorite..."What you think of me is none of my business."

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Mintii Bunnii 1 year ago

here's one of my favorite quotes: "You can't run naked after a mad man in the street after he has taken your clothes away from you because the public will not know who is the mad person between the two of you." - Nigerian proverb

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Sara Wilson 1 year ago

Something that occurred to me recently, is that we all have different versions of normal. How we grow up, how we live, etc. someone may not know what they r doing is not "normal", because it's normal to them. Not to u. U probably have the same thing too. So cut people some slack

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Troubles are like babies - they only grow if you nurse them.

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Snorky The Pig 1 year ago (edited)

My favorite quote from my mother: "You can learn from all people; from some you learn how to act, and from others, how not to act. From some how to treat someone, and from others how not to treat someone."

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von Funnyname 1 year ago

"If you're the smartest person in the room, it's time to find a new room" has always stuck with me over the years.

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Donnaebb 1 year ago

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Scotira 1 year ago

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David A Paterson 1 year ago (edited)

I prefer "never argue with an idiot, people won't know the difference". That said, arguing with an idiot in private can be great fun.

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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

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Elizabeth S 1 year ago

Right one I constantly share with other people is the same adage just worded differently "You cannot pour from an empty cup."

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