Useful things to know in life

Don't wear yours jeans like this dude
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It doesn't make you look hip or cool.
 
In a tv interview, the Dalai Lama was asked what is the single most important attribute.

He replied that being able to forgive both others and yourself was the only true way to move forward with your life.

He went on to say that this can be incredibly difficult, but without it, you would only ever hold yourself back.
 
Stop thinking about the things you don't want to happen, as they inevitably will. Try to concentrate on the things you do want to happen and you luck might find you.

Never **** where you eat.

Don't lie to impress, you will get found out.
 
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Don't over analyse things, it can hold you back.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Be who you want to be, embrace what you enjoy doing.

Don't bottle things up to much

If there's something you hate, you don't just have to tolerate it, do something about it.
 
[FnG]magnolia;17184904 said:
You either had the first one as your sig previously or dished it out as sound advice. I forget which but it's still very true :)
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Good memory, I think I did have it as a signature for a while and it's just plain good advice from the lady.

boxman2000 said:
- Never lend to or borrow from friends if you want to keep them as a friend
- Never be a guarantor for someone on a loan
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While I've got no real problems with the rest I can't agree with these two, a friend is the first person I'd consider lending to or borrowing from often and if they're a good friend then I'd expect no problems with the lending/borrowing. If I didn't think I could lend to my friends without issues then I'd be reconsidering the friendship but unless I've got reason to doubt them then I'll normally be happy to lend to them.

As for the guarantor business - I know quite a few parents who have been guarantors for their offspring and it's not an unreasonable thing to do.
 
semi-pro waster said:
While I've got no real problems with the rest I can't agree with these two, a friend is the first person I'd consider lending to or borrowing from often and if they're a good friend then I'd expect no problems with the lending/borrowing. If I didn't think I could lend to my friends without issues then I'd be reconsidering the friendship but unless I've got reason to doubt them then I'll normally be happy to lend to them.

As for the guarantor business - I know quite a few parents who have been guarantors for their offspring and it's not an unreasonable thing to do.
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I agree with this.. I have some friends (real one's) that I know I can trust with absolutely anything, if you don't feel the same with some of your "friends", then my pity to you :o

edit: My friend has trusted me with hundreds of £ of his own money to me, and I do the same for him... I also trust my best mate so much that if my woman gets into some sort of trouble i.e. gets mugged, someone tries to sexually assault her, I trust him that much that I just know he'd do anything to keep her safe whatever happens and I would absolutely do the same for him...
 
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semi-pro waster said:
Good memory, I think I did have it as a signature for a while and it's just plain good advice from the lady.



While I've got no real problems with the rest I can't agree with these two, a friend is the first person I'd consider lending to or borrowing from often and if they're a good friend then I'd expect no problems with the lending/borrowing. If I didn't think I could lend to my friends without issues then I'd be reconsidering the friendship but unless I've got reason to doubt them then I'll normally be happy to lend to them.

As for the guarantor business - I know quite a few parents who have been guarantors for their offspring and it's not an unreasonable thing to do.
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First point I have been burned on and I know other friends who have been as well. Never said anyone had to do this but I'd seriously think about making a larger loan (thousands) as an official loan.

Secondly yes of course offspring but again I have been burned after being guarantor for someone.

Perhaps a disclaimer would be to exclude family but I try and not to involve money and friendships and know a lot of people who think in a similar way
 
just read this and live by it:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
 
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