Mottos or phrases you try to live with/by

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Not my circus; not my monkeys.

Look after number 1, because no-one else will.

"Tis but for a night, O muleteer." I tell myself this on a bad day, it's the Arabic version of "This too will pass" I guess!

'That'll do'

What goes around comes around.

If you won't worry about it in a years time why worry now. Don't think that you know what others think of you. My favourite: if someone gives you the gift if an insult and you don't accept it then whose gift is it?( adapted from an old chinese proverb)

"I don't offer twice".

Just that really.

I have found myself saying ‘ you reap what you sow’ on occasion.
Also ‘ time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time’

I have a few, most boil down to the same thing:

Don’t be a dick.

In a world where you can be anything; always choose to be kind.

This too shall pass.

You got this.

If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giant.

All you need is love, love is all you need.

But mostly, Don’t be a dick.

Be kind

What other people think of me is none of my business

never argue with stupid people, they drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - curtesy of Mark Twain

spend, and the lord will send
although he never has!!

If you don't want the answer, don't ask the question.

Action is the antidote to despair

One I got from MN: my record of getting through bad days is 100% so far.

And one from my DM - don't fight with pigs. You'll both get dirty but the pigs enjoy it.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Very true when you have a child with SEN issuea

be kind / don't be a dick / everyone is fighting a battle of some sort

The best revenge is to be happy.

Am place-marking really as some of these are great! Love don't fight with pigs. You'll both get dirty but the pigs enjoy it

One battle doesn't win the war
Work hard, play hard, sleep well

See all, hear all, say nowt
Eat all, drink all, pay nowt
And if ever thou does owt for nowt do it for thissen
One of fils and I don't like it except for the first line.

All the world but thee and me is queer and even thee's a little queer
( old meaning of queer)

Wherever you go, there you are ~ Confucious

Where there is a will there is a way said to me by my then, 15 yr old, very wise boyfriend.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! ~Arthur Miller Kept me from killing myself a few times.

God gave us memory, so might have roses in December ~ James A. Barrie

Good energy attracts good energy and vice versa~an old boss said this to me, but I find it to be true

Shine your shoes for God (loosely paraphrased from J.D Salinger's Franny & Zooey

Leave the World a better Place than you find it.~Robert Baden-Powell

The course of true love never did run smooth ~Shakespeare

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye ~ Antoine de Saint -Exupery

*Every eel hopes to become a whale~German Proverb

Words matter ~ Anonymous

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies, Nobody that matters that is. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men ~ Lord Acton

Most of what happens takes place in your absence ~ Salman Rushdie

FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT. Let your success be the left hook to the jaw, you're enemy wasn't expecting. ~ MLAC

Empty vessels make the most noise.

Bluesheep8 I just love that one. I use it often. But, there are so many.......Very good choice though.

misslanesamericancousin yep, says it all. I recite it to myself regularly!

That's one smart sheep!!!!!

Not sure of it's origins but my beautiful and wise grandmother said it to me once. Total lack of any formal education on her part but that one observation has taught me more than anything I ever learned during mine

Fight. Fight. Fight Let your success be the unexpected left hook, that your enemy wasn't expecting

I agree. I got a lot of these from my father. He used to punt them into my head until I memorized them. I had more, but some were to controversial, plus I didn't want to take up so much room.

My Mom(who I have a Low contact relationship, always said, don't like anybody who doesn't like you and easy come, easy go. Those have worked too, but I have to try harder with those.

Never putt off till tomorrow what you can do today!!

This is not a practice run at life this is it!!

Never do anything to someone that you would not want done to yourself!!

You either live above the human plan or below it

This quote wants to me to do better as a human being. To constantly evolve. To strive to do better. Just do better

plane Sorry, tired!