<p>So how do you choose to live your life? Any values you live by? Any sayings you go by? Do share. :]</p>
<p>Main one
“Tolerance is the highest virtue. Humility comes next” – Father Chisholm in * Keys of the Kingdom *</p>
<p>Humility is harder than tolerance though…</p>
<p>Values I live by: Self Discipline, Perseverance, Service, Faith, Harmony, and Love.
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Don’t ever say ‘I give up’
Things cannot be as simple as that
Fulfill that dream you believed in
No matter how far,
It goes on and never stops,
This story where you play the leading part
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-Your Story by Masataka Nakagauchi</p>
<p>It’s a translation, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>I live by certain values of manipulation, deviance, and insensitivity. :-)</p>
<p>I love trying to live like Jesus Christ, helping to make other’s lives more happy, fulfilling, meaningful. I love loving others and God (Jesus). I want to honor Him every second of my life. This is what motivates me to get out of bed, to have Jesus live through me to bless others.</p>
<p>^hahahahah</p>
<p>what a crock of dung. id rather not spend my life doing things for some supposedly omnipotent presence.</p>
<p>my philosophy is to have fun and do interesting things while i can before its too late.</p>
<p>I’m still developing it.</p>
<p>It irks me that my life could be nothing but a dream or a perception and I cannot do anything to definitively prove otherwise. I think that attempting to figure out the “answers” oriented around life is one of my goals, regardless of its unattainability.</p>
<p>life’s a *****, then you die.</p>
<p>Go with the flow. Any hurdles thrown at you, you face—it only will make you stronger.
Also don’t waste your time with those who try to disturb the flow.
And good food=good life.</p>
<p>Hey I made a thread just like this.</p>
<p>Have lots of hokey panky pokey</p>
<p>way to support the stereotype that all atheists are dicks, md5hash</p>
<p>but I guess the philosophy of a high school student doesn’t really mean much, mine is mostly a mix of “do good” and “carpe the hell out of the diem” because I’m figuring I can’t go very wrong with doing good and having fun, also work hard because karate kid montages are a lie</p>
<p>I kinda don’t agree with things like "life’s a *<strong><em>, then you die" because life is sort of what you make of it, and if you make it into a </em></strong><em>, you’re kinda a </em> too.</p>
<p>a lot of sterotypes have some grains of truth. honestly though, how could you live your life for something/someone else? in the end we are all in it for our own personal gain. even people who do charity and volunteer service for fun usually do it to gain some sort of personal satisfaction</p>
<p>^All actions do seem to be done selfishly. We act in a manner that maximizes our ultimate utility.</p>
<p>“All actions do seem to be done selfishly. We act in a manner that maximizes our ultimate utility.”</p>
<p>Not exactly, people always do stupid things. Acting in a manner that maximizes our ultimate utility is the most rational way to act, and generally is someone if forced to think about it, they will act in this way (or try to). Most people do not consider this when making day to day decisions though. And if we did, no one would ever take a Game Theory class, it’d all be obvious.</p>
<p>My life philosophy, I don’t know. I want to make a difference, not in any particular way, but I want the world to be somehow different because of me.</p>
<p>Perhaps I should have said, “We act in a manner with the * intention * of maximizing our ultimate utility.” While our decisions may be incorrect later on, at the time that we decide upon them, we believe that we are formulating the best decision, or acting in our best interests. If we didn’t we wouldn’t engage in the action.</p>
<p>You know you are successful when you’ve got sex, money, and fame.</p>
<p>jk</p>
<p>mine is work hard play hard</p>
<p>^^I know that’s what you meant… Reread my post. People generally don’t think about the small decisions they make and aim to maximize utility. They just act, they pick something automatically. Big decisions are made like that, but small ones aren’t.</p>
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<p>is it so wrong that some people gain personal satisfaction out of helping others? obviously the person that gets a sense of joy out of helping people is dick, freakin’ mother teresa. or maybe humans are born with empathy and little happy sensors going off when they help others because we’d be pretty boned as a race if we all kicked each other in the balls looking for a laugh.</p>
<p>Hakuna Matata</p>
<p>^^^I do believe that all decisions are made in consideration to that. I suppose that our perceptions just contrast regarding that issue.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification though.</p>