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Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?

#1
Do you have a personal motto and what it is?

> While our immediate problems tend to distract us in everyday life, having a mantra can help us stay in touch with our deepest goals. Mottos ultimately can do many things, such as increase your productivity, inspire you, or help you change a habit. [1]

[1] 9 Reasons You Need a Personal Motto, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/changepower/201508/9-reasons-you-need-personal-motto

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?

#3
I don't know who to attribute this to, but these certainly aren't my words, but they have been the words to help me re-center myself when I'm having "one of those moments" and my lizard brain is running the show:

"It all works out in the end, and in the end, we're all dead."

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?

#10

Shit Happens. All philosophy boils down to those two words in the end.

I tend to say this in Spanish as "Cosas que pasan", which can be translated as "Things that happen". It's similar to French expression "C'est la vie"

Edit: of course that I use it mostly when something bad happens, something that's maybe unlikely but possible. That's when I tell my peers «these are things that happen». Like, after a robbery or something. Son cosas que pasan

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