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Attitude and mottos

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  • 2bhealed
    2bhealed CSN Member Posts: 2,068 Member
    #22
    John23 said:

    My motto for years was

    "Don't eat the yellow snow."

    It was part of a self-preservation thing.


    John

    Zappa
    Yours and Frank's motto
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  • dorookie
    dorookie CSN Member Posts: 1,731 Member
    #23
    My Motto
    is, I do what I have to do, to be able to look myself in the mirror each morning!
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  • 2bhealed
    2bhealed CSN Member Posts: 2,068 Member
    #24
    Great thread scouty!
    Life, live it like you mean it!!
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  • Jimbob-
    Jimbob- CSN Member Posts: 46
    #25
    2bhealed said:

    Great thread scouty!
    Life, live it like you mean it!!

    " Buy Low, Sell High "

    " Buy Low, Sell High "
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  • John23
    John23 CSN Member Posts: 2,121 Member
    #26
    2bhealed said:

    Zappa
    Yours and Frank's motto

    Zzzzzapp
    Haha... I didn't think you were even born then!

    Frank Zappa c1977


    Zappa Bio
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  • Shayenne
    Shayenne CSN Member Posts: 2,342
    #27
    Jimbob- said:

    " Buy Low, Sell High "

    " Buy Low, Sell High "

    From James Dean:
    Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today!

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna
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  • 2bhealed
    2bhealed CSN Member Posts: 2,068 Member
    #28
    2bhealed said:

    Great thread scouty!
    Life, live it like you mean it!!

    Another one:
    Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.


    --Hippocrates


    (how could I forget this one that I live by each and every day???)
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  • Shayenne
    Shayenne CSN Member Posts: 2,342
    #29
    2bhealed said:

    Another one:
    Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.


    --Hippocrates


    (how could I forget this one that I live by each and every day???)

    That's
    A good one Em!

    Hugsss!
    ~Donna
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  • mom_2_3
    mom_2_3 CSN Member Posts: 953 Member
    #30
    Helen Keller
    Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
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  • scouty
    scouty CSN Member Posts: 1,965 Member
    #31
    These are great folks!!
    Keep em coming

    Even a blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while.
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  • trainer
    trainer CSN Member Posts: 241
    #32
    Mottos and slogans
    I like : "Hold my beer and watch this" which is known as the last words of many southern males.

    And for my PR agency:
    If you're getting run out of town, we'll make it look like you're leading a parade!


    And finally: BOHICA! My choice for the official motto of the colorectal crowd. Anyone else know what that stands for?
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  • John23
    John23 CSN Member Posts: 2,121 Member
    #33
    trainer said:

    Mottos and slogans
    I like : "Hold my beer and watch this" which is known as the last words of many southern males.

    And for my PR agency:
    If you're getting run out of town, we'll make it look like you're leading a parade!


    And finally: BOHICA! My choice for the official motto of the colorectal crowd. Anyone else know what that stands for?

    BOHICA
    Yeah, but for us ostomates, it's TSHICA !






    (I like that picture, but why's the kid got his finger in his nose?)
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  • christinecarl
    christinecarl CSN Member Posts: 544 Member
    #34
    Cowards die many times
    Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

    -William Shakespeare



    I also have a shirt that says, "I'm making cancer my b*tch"
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  • JDuke
    JDuke CSN Member Posts: 438
    #35
    thready said:

    Not quite so serious, but still me
    I have posted a picture on my expressions page. Sometimes visual images do more for me than words. I have been told that I have a bit of a wicked sense of humor, and I really like to look at the good things so I often have to step back from the really serious stuff and laugh even though I am feeling quite beat up by chemo, I am losing my hair, my skin has turned a funny color of yuk and I look so old.

    I hope you enjoy the picture it so so me right now!

    Other Motto through much of this is from Calvin and Hobbs “We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

    Or just maybe:
    “What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?”

    After I'm done with chemo we are going to plan a party, and I am going to wear a sombrero! Pictures to follow in a couple of months!
    Jan

    Cracked me up
    Jan,
    That picture is priceless. Thanks for the laugh!
    Joanne
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  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia CSN Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #36
    Corrie ten Boom said
    This always uplifts me:

    "When I was a little girl, " I said, "I went to my father and said, "Daddy, I am afraid that I will never be strong enough to be a martyr for Jesus Christ." "Tell me," said Father, "When you take a train trip to Amsterdam, when do I give you the money for the ticket? Three weeks before?" "No, Daddy, you give me the money for the ticket just before we get on the train." "That is right," my father said, "and so it is with God's strength. Our Father in Heaven knows when you will need the strength to be a martyr for Jesus Christ. He will supply all you need just in time"

    Corrie ten Boom (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II.
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  • eric38
    eric38 CSN Member Posts: 583
    #37
    mom_2_3 said:

    Helen Keller
    Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

    Christine and Mom_2_3
    Christine - that shirt you have cracks me up. Mom_ 2_3 - that Helen Keller quote struck a cord with me. Thanks.

    Eric
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  • Sundanceh
    Sundanceh CSN Member Posts: 4,392 Member
    #38
    Semi;Colon Slogan :)
    "I may not be as good as I ONCE was - but I'm as good ONCE as I ever was."

    -Craig
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  • kimby
    kimby CSN Member Posts: 797
    #39
    Excellence
    "Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible."

    Live BIG or go home!

    "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." Sally Koch

    Kimby
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  • lisa42
    lisa42 CSN Member Posts: 3,625 Member
    #40
    two
    A song on the radio has the line "live like you're dying". That one made me think, as not everyone reacts in the same way. Some give up, others fight like hell, and others start to appreciate everything and everyone around them all the more. I believe the song is referring to the latter.

    Another saying I like is "make roses out of rain" (similar, I guess, to the old adage "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Could be considered trite, but it really is s a way of viewing life, no matter whether that's good, bad, or very bad. Cancer definitely is the latter ("very bad"), but I'm still trying to find the roses. Note that roses go through a time period of being bare and ugly with no sight of anything good until after the storms end and then the green sprouts and eventually the flowers.

    Lisa
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  • PhillieG
    PhillieG CSN Member Posts: 4,866 Member
    #41
    One I liked that I (think) I made up is
    "If it wasn't for cancer, I'd say I have the perfect life. If it wasn't for cancer, would I even realize this?"
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