Dance First. Think Later.
618 Rules to Live By
Six hundred eighteen one-line answers to ‘how to live’ — collected from people who actually lived. Open anywhere; the title rule alone is worth the book.
Kathryn and Ross Petras are siblings who’ve spent decades collecting quotes and quips. “Dance First. Think Later.” (2016) gathers 618 rules for living from writers, athletes, scientists, and comedians — no argument, no chapters to follow in order, just one line after another worth testing against your own life.
A few lines worth keeping:
Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet, you can’t win.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
Live as if you were already living for a second time and as if you had made the mistakes you are about to make now.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
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