Which quotes have meaning to you?

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Just a musing really. I lost my dad in December and a colleague of mine said to me " It's okay not to be okay". And it has stuck with me. Just Saturday evening musings what quotes help you get through! Another one is "Not my monkeys... not my circus" when at work 🙈 x

It's nice to be important but its more important to be nice

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well - Julian of Norwich

What will survive of us is love - Philip Larkin

When DS1 was very little he used to love the book On The Night You Were Born. The words "heaven played every trumpet and sounded every horn on the wonderful, marvellous night you were born" always stayed with me because they so aptly described how I feel for my firstborn. He's 13 now and very occasionally he'll give me a hug and say "life will never be the same" and then laugh because he still knows it by heart. It means so much that despite him being over 6 foot tall and hugely independent, he's also still very much just a little boy finding his wings. I've bought that same book for every friend who's had a baby since, because the words throughout are lovely.

One that's helping me get through a rough couple of months:
We can't control the sea, but we can learn how to surf the waves.

When Life Gives You Lemon Make Lemonade...I have this on a jug in my kitchen!

This one made me laugh

After Tuesday even the calendar goes W T F !

It’s from a longer poem called The Station. But I love the ending:

So, stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along The station will come soon enough

Sorry for your loss OP. This is a really nice idea for a thread. I have recently experienced a loss and it makes you think about life and, well, everything.

This too shall pass

I was going to say this. I think we do need to treasure what we have as life can change in an instant.

I also like the serenity prayer (is that what it’s called?) “... to accept the things I cannot change...”

You are braver then you believe and stronger and smarter then you think - A A Milne

Fall down seven times
Get up eight

You have to climb the mountain to see the view.

All the most beautiful things in life take some effort and bravery.

Time that you enjoyed wasting was not wasted at all.

People treat you the way you let them.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

From the film 'The Lorax'

'A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave' (Mahatma Gandhi)

A ship in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are made for - John A Shedd

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind - C S Lewis

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day saying “I’ll try again tomorrow.”

• Mary Anne Radmacher

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Don’t sweat the small stuff. That’s my motto