What are your favourite quotes of all time?

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I get weirdly emotional reading quotes, and I LOVE finding new ones.

Mine are:

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire” - Charles Bukowski

“But they had built each other strong enough to heal” - in DD’s favourite book ‘Girls’. I always get a bit watery-eyed when I read this to her!

i love this one from Stephen Hawking
‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.’

What's meant for you wont pass you by

I'm bored of this, I'm going for a twix.

The Twix one is the quote to live life by

'If you don't like it, alter it. If you can't alter it, put up with it'

DH Lawrence, Sons & Lovers

A few courtesy of Herman Melville Moby Dick.
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"
"I try all things, I achieve what I can"

Life is not a fairy-tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, You're drunk.

My life can be summed up in one phrase: well that didn't fucking go as planned.

From an A level French text, 30+ years ago

Vas t'en, et souviens-toi seulement que je t'aime.

What you desire, you already possess.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Just keep swimming.

"Happiness can be found, even if in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." And "Just because its happening inside your head doesn't mean it isn't real"
Both Albus Dumbledore.

Also "those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves". J.M Barrie

Honey, your vagina needs glasses. He is NOT worth it.

When one door closes, another might not open. But you can sure as hell smash the window!

The scene with the heartbroken squirrel in the Sword in the Stone always makes me well up.
Merlin: Ah, you know, lad... that love business is a powerful thing.
Arthur: Greater than gravity?
Merlin: Well, yes, boy, in its way, I'd say it's the greatest force on Earth.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Whengodwasarabbit and hazandduck love yours

I think mine is "it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" Amnesty International use it a lot.

I saw a lovely uplifting quote by Desmond Tutu in lockdown but I can't think what it was now.

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

'If you argue with a fool, two fools are arguing.'
I must say this to myself 10 times a day 😂

@Whengodwasarabbit

If you enter this world knowing you are loved, and leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

That's made me a bit teary. I'm lucky enough to know the first half and I think I have done enough to have the second half.

I have two i like

Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice

And

The people who matter don't mind and the people that mind don't matter.

minou123 beat me to it with the fairy tale quote.

Also, this lyric from "Jack and Diane" by John Cougar Mellencamp:

"Hold on to sixteen as long as you can
Changes come around real soon, make us women and men."

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There's no point getting to the top of the ladder if it's leaning against the wrong tree.

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done.

This too shall pass.

When things go wrong, don't go wrong with them.