What is one motto that you try to live by?

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Mine is things aren't always as they seem behind closed doors.
Basically I try never to be jealous of people because you can never tell what people's lives are really like. There is always a skeleton...

Ohh another one: if you worry, you suffer twice

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them - Dalai Lama

How would my dad react? What would he do or say (he's my hero)

I read the DalaiLama thirty years ago. I think he influenced me more than anyone else (which explains my motto.)

What others think of me is none of my business.

Own your shit.

'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'

The whole of Ecclesiastes, basically.

Eat, Drink and be Merry.
For tomorrow you may diet.

Fuck the lot of them

"Comparison is the thief of joy" is my motto! Don't waste your energy comparing your life to others, just be thankful for what you have and keep moving forward.... also a wise friend of mine has a good motto "don't mess with peoples hearts and don't put up with people who mess with yours" I thinks those words are from a song actually!

Do what suits you because you can spend your life bending over backwards to please others and they still won't be happy. So it's better to please one person (yourself) than disappoint two!

You don’t know how much you don’t know

Also - some people you’ll never understand and that’s ok

Don’t believe everything you think.

My Mum would sometimes say when we were kids "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken" it's very true Oscar Wilde

If they go to bed happy. Good job,well done.

If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is!

Hard is hard. It's not a competition, it's not relative, if someone is finding it hard then it's hard.

Sometimes everyone fed and teeth brushed is enough (that's just since having DCs).

Everyone is doing their best and everyone wants the best for him (that's just since having dcs with SN).

There but for the grace of god, go I.

That and Be kind.

I remember watching Bambi as a child around 40 years ago, and Thumper's line "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" really stuck with me.

Be kind whenever possible.
It's always possible.

Make good choices. Oh and it's better to be a rich mans darling than a poor mans wife (seriously, the poor ones suck)

Two is one, one is none

If in doubt, say nowt.

I've got a couple but one that I really like came from an elderly lady with poor mental health, she was lovely.
"I don't care if people talk about me, at least if they do they're leaving someone else alone". Always makes me smile. On a different theme if someone close to me does something daft/questionable and I find myself thinking why have they done that then I stop in my tracks and say 'Nope, so much nope' but tbf I usually reserve it for my arsehole cousin.