Sage

Aphorisms
of all I can recall
these is ‘em
pulled these below
off the top of my head
but I really don’t know
maybe something I read
or heard one day
can’t actually say
but I do know this
I get their gist

 

You can’t win a mile race if you only run 5,200 feet.

Don’t criticize others if you are easily offended.

You’ll fail at every risk you don’t take.

The future is not tomorrow — it comes every second.

If you just can’t find an answer — the question may be the fault.

Even in darkness discoveries can be made — use more than just your eyes.

If you want to hear what others think — shut up!

There is no such thing as failure — only incomplete success.

If you keep tripping up — try going down.

The only thing certain is uncertainty.

You can’t outrun your history — nor your fate.

You may not always get what you want — often you get what you need.

Everything goes wrong — until it doesn’t.

The world may not be passing you by — you may be going backwards.

Bad deeds are like footprints — they follow you everywhere.

Easiest to ride the horse in the direction it’s going.

If you think you can’t — then you won’t.

Nothing beats working hard — except working smart.

The only thing that makes someone better than you is your thinking so.

Victory cannot be snatched from you — unless you let go your grip.

You will never finish last if you stay ahead of whose behind you.

If at first you don’t succeed — start at second the next time.

A better question than why — is why not?

If you follow your heart you will have a leader committed to you.

You can never go all the way — only as far as you went.

Love is letting someone be themself — not who you want them to be.

If you want to change something — do it differently.

You don’t know what to do, fine — but do something.

Falling for someone can never hurt — if they cushion your impact.

The person on top is simply the perch for the next one up.

Good intentions are never wrong — but some are certainly less right

You can’t be stopped if you just keep going.

One doesn’t need to know everything — just enough to appear to.

To win the race you need beat only one — whoever’s in 2nd place.

If you think you’ve been a fool, you are probably right
— and you’ll likely find someone who agrees with you.

The only real fool is the one who lived their life,
and hid their truth for fear of being called one.

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rob kistner © 2022

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16 thoughts on “Sage”

    1. Glad I could offer you some new ones. I can come up with these almost on command, my strange mind seems to remember them subconsciously and also readily formulate them. It is the quirk that allows me to create a decent closing line or phrase for my poems… 🙂 …more times than not.

  1. When I was teaching one of the things I used to make the students learn how to do was ask questions properly. They would say “Can you help me?” I’d say with what? If you don’t even know what you need to ask, how can you ever get an answer that works?

    1. Bugs the hell out of me when I hear questions that can’t be answered. If you want an answer, take the responsibility to craft an question that works. If you don’t know enough about the subject to seek a useful answer, then your asking for an education, not an answer — that id rude.

  2. These are wonderful, Rob! My favorite is:

    “The world may not be passing you by — you may be going backwards.”

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