Rules To Live By
I'm looking for Rules (or maybe list) that you try to live by. Some can be harsh. Or funny. Or just general rules. These are going to be for ideas on what a characters father is teaching him.
They should be rules that can range from birth to death. Like I have written a chapter where the father teaches his son not to trust anybody. The boy is maybe six at the time. But there is the rule "Don't Shit Where You Work" which he teaches at a much older age (obviously lol).
Here are a few that I've come up with.
1. Don’t Lie
2. Don’t Trust Anybody
3. Don’t Expect Happy Endings
4. Don’t Shit Where You Eat?
5. Never Make A Threat You Don’t Intend To Carry Out
6. Shit Can Be Replace – Material Possession Are Nothing
7. Every Day Is A New Beginning
8. Know Which Battle To Fight and What To Avoid
Any others?
don't get high from your own supply? If you want to take the story in that direction.
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9. Meet a threat with a bigger threat.
10. Don't ever worry about anything that you can't control.
11. Never round things toward your advantage. 165 calories rounds to 200, not 150. 45 minutes working out rounds to half an hour.
12. Facts build attitudes.
13. You decide your own limitations.
14. There's always another car, there's always another house, there's always another town, there's always another girl, always another friend. Not sure I believe that, but I know it's true.
15. All things in moderation.
16. Assume that all things are beyond complete understanding.
17. Don't make enemies with stupid people unless you're willing to kill them. They're unpredictable.
18. Friendship exists in the moment. If you don't want people to let you down, don't ever rely on them to be anything other than what they're being right now.
19. Awareness is existence; confidence is everything.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Here ya go:
1. Pāṇātipātā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
2. Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
3. Kāmesu micchācāra veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
4. Musāvāda veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
5. Surā-meraya-majja-pamādaṭṭhānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi.
1. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking life.
2. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given.
3. I undertake the training rule to abstain from sexual misconduct today.
4. I undertake the training rule to abstain from false speech.
5. I undertake the training rule to abstain from intoxicants that cause heedlessness.
The Five Precepts constitute the basic Buddhist code of ethics, undertaken by lay followers of the Buddha Gautama in the Theravada and Mahayana traditions. Undertaking the five precepts is part of both lay Buddhist initiation and regular lay Buddhist devotional practices. They are not formulated as imperatives, but as training rules that laypeople undertake voluntarily to facilitate practice.
Nightrious's are real good too.
This is why we can't have nice things.
20) Always keep your own mortality in mind when making decisions.
it's not who you know, it's who knows you.