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Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids): 1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" 2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control" Th
by seriocomic 6y ago
Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids):
1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset"
2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control"
The last is the deepest one which I struggle the most with:
"When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place!" - attributed to Churchill, but looks unlikely as he also said "It’s a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations." - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/08/viral-image/no-winston-churchill-didnt-say-quote-about-age/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/08/viral-imag...
- natmaka 6y agoDid you read the 'Enchiridion' (Epictetus)?
- seriocomic 6y agoThanks for pointing to that - I don't think I remember that specific reference, but there may have been some commentary to or about it when I was reading 'Meditations' (Marcus Aurelius) or one of the books on Stoicism where I picked it up from.
- LanceH 6y agoI live somewhere where "pen" == "pin" in pronunciation, so it's, "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit."
- xdavidliu 6y agofirst thing I thought of when I read this: 'Git-R-Done' by Larry the cable guy https://youtu.be/4TU-li1BqZ4?t=15 https://youtu.be/4TU-li1BqZ4?t=15
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