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...

Also, treat others how you want to be treated

Always be prepared and always be polite too.

No bullshit

"All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - Gandalf

If you don’t have anything nice to say then say nothing at all !

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Fuck it.

Can't please everyone
This too shall pass

Choose Happy

Life's a bitch...and then you die.

Leave everything a little nicer than you found it.

Everyone is fighting their own personal battles.

I have two, both passed down.

"Keep a song in your heart and a knife in your boot" - Great Grandfather, think it roughly means be a nice person but not a pushover.

"What gets cast into the ocean, will come back with the tide" - Mother, relating to karma

Everyone is winging it.

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”

George Bernard Shaw

I remind myself of this as I have a tendency to worry.

"Keep a song in your heart and a knife in your boot"

Love that!

Theirs only one way of life... and that's your own.

Treat People With Kindness

When in doubt, do the right thing.

There's Crappy otherwise it doesn't make sense.

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothin at all". My mum used to impress this Thumper quote on us and whilst I don't always stick to it, it's one to always keep in mind and I'll be saying it to my own children.

"Tomorrow is another day!" Scarlett O'Hara's line always helps if I'm feeling anxious about something.

Just keep swimming.

‘You don’t have to be nice to people’. My mum said it to me when I was a child and got into trouble at school for not wanting to play with a girl I didn’t like, and I’ve lived by it ever since.

As others have written......
treat others as you would like to be treated. (' do as you would be done by. -the Water Babies by Charles Kingsley )
travel your own road
if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all

such a lot of kindness being shown on here

"this too shall pass"

Get it right and tell the truth. That way you can go home early and not have to remember stuff.