Wisdom to Date and Live By

Deborrah Cooper | 05/27/2009

You’ll never find wisdom like this in The Four Agreements, but there is a strange amount of truth that can be applied to life in each and every one of these gems!



Do not walk behind me. Do not walk ahead of me. Do not walk beside me. Just leave me alone. 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and leaky tire. 

Its always darkest before dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbour’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it! 

Always remember that you’re special and unique… just like everyone else. 

Never test the depth of the water with both feet. 

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. 

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, after you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. 

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. 

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was $20 well spent.  

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. 

In some relationships you’re the bug; and in others you’re the windshield. 

Everyone seems perfectly normal until you get to know them. 

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket. 

A closed mouth gathers no foot. 

There are two theories to arguing with women. Men are hereby advised that neither one works. 

Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. 

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. 

Never miss a good chance to shut up. 

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 

 

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About Deborrah Cooper: Dating advice columnist on AskHeartBeat.Com and Examiner.Com; hosts the Date Smarter Not Harder relationships talk show on BlogTalkRadio.Com every Saturday night at 7 pm (PST). She is the author of hundreds of articles on dating and relationships, and penned the Best Black Books of 2007 award-winning guide to modern dating "Sucka Free Love! How to Avoid Dating The Dumb, The Deceitful, The Dastardly, The Dysfunctional & The Deranged." Sucka Free Love is a hilarious, street smart examination of the mistakes singles make in relationships - find it on Amazon.Com. View author profile.

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