What are some wise sayings you've coined or realized they were true?

[love_conquers_lust]

Be the rock that the stream flows round, the mountain for which the wind parts way, the tree that the rain trickles down.

Work pays off. Hard work pays of handsomely. Planning leads to smart work. Smart work pays off effortlessly. Smart, hard work pays off optimally. Endless planning and no work leads to no payoff at all.

It's one thing to tread the beaten path. It's another thing entirely to forge a new one.

The world seems too big as a boy, it doesn't seem big enough as a man.

The uniform does not make the man, the man makes the uniform.

[Subglacial]

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it." -Bruce Lee

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen." -Jimmy Buffett

"The world is only the size of each man’s head." -Ruskin Bond

"The clothes make the man." -Don Draper, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Homer, etc.

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[strateguy632]

"Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted." powerful.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

In my language, there is a saying that I wholeheartedly agree upon. I translates into English as " no one banged the ugly, so she called herself a woman of decency and virtue." . I am at the stage where I am slowly turning into this woman mentioned in the saying.

[purplepoppy]

The old feel the blows suffered when young.

A great sin can enter through a small door

You have to go very slowly and bit by bit to get your finger up a fly’s backside

Like shearing a pig: lots of noise, not much wool

[Jennz6]

Ronald Reagan coin, the phrase “from the government and I’m here to help “”

[NathanDavis]

shit happens...