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I just found my massive amount of saved fortune cookie fortunes. I have a good pile of them because when I worked at a chinese food place my boss (D) and I talked about writing a book of short stories based on fortunes, to be called My Life As A Fortune Cookie. I still want to do it, so I’ve saved lots of fortunes for inspiration. I used to carry them around on me all the time, countless fortunes have been lost to the washing machine. I still keep one around as much as I can, it says “you are a lover of words someday you will write a book”. Here are some of the better bits of wisdom offered on these tiny slips of paper.
- An ounce of care is worth a pound of cure.
- Tell me, I will forget. Involve me, I will understand.
- Q. What is K.M.S.? A. Keep Mouth Shut, the golden rule.
- Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice.
- Poverty is no disgrace.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss…but it obtains a certain polish!
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Joys are often the shadows, cast by sorrows.
- Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream.
- Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
- You can’t go far in a rowboat without oars.
- Whistle while you work.
- Be careful! Straight trees often have crooked roots.
- If you bite the hand that feeds you, it won’t taste as good as the food you were fed.
- There’s no point to being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
- You discover treasures where others see nothing unusual.
- As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.
- In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- A kiss can beautify souls, hearts, and thoughts.
- Your meaning of love is special. Why not share it.
- Writing is thinking on paper.
- A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
- Do not fear failure.
- Forbidden fruit creates many jams.
- A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- An optimist is the human personification of spring.
- A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.
- A human being is a deciding being.
- All thing as a cause. Look into your pass for answer
- Emotion is energy in motion.
- A woman’s thinking is quicker than her action.
- Human Rights: Know Them, Demand Them, Defend Them
- Fear and desire – two sides of the same coin.
- There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.
- All that we are is a result of what we have thought.
- A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
- Good bakers make plenty of dough.
- Be mischievous and you will not be lonesome.
- Commitment is what turns a promise into reality.
- Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.
- Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
- Enjoy Life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
- To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
- Lotus blossoms smell better when you stop.
- There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
- Your emotions are right on the surface, but that’s okay.
- Commitment is the stuff character is made of the power to change the face of things.
- The whole world is a narrow bridge; the important thing is not to be afraid.
- Turn your scars into stars.
- It’s tough to be fascinating.
- To love what you do and feel that it matters–how could anything be more fun?
- We live at the edge of the miraculous.
- To remember is to understand.
- Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
- You need to recharge. Spend time alone in nature.
- Do not desire what you do not need.
- Happiness isn’t an outside job, it’s an inside job.
- A good way to keep healthy is to eat more Chinese food.