What are your favourite quotes of all time?

[TeddyIsaHe]

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!

'what other people think of you is none of your business'

Mine is one I use whenever someone gives birth - "A baby cried,and a world began"

I also like "A university is a log with a student sitting on one end, and a teacher sitting on the other"

"Reader, I married him." Jane Eyre

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable

When someone shows you who they are, believe them

Madness is a lot like gravity, all it takes is a little push

We stop looking for the monsters under our beds when we realise they're inside our heads

Don't take life too serious son; it ain't nohow permanent.

"I told you I was ill" on Spike Milligan's gravestone.

Time you enjoy wasting, isn't wasted time.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing"

Theodore Roosevelt

These are great. I also have one in French, from a school course book. If I have remembered correctly
'Ne pas perdre ta vie a la gagner'

which I think translates as 'Do not lose your life by trying to win it's.

I also like ' This is your life, it is not a rehearsal', which I often say to my dss.

And my last one (for now) 'It is better to be kind than to be right'.

"I've been told to pick up my sword and fight for love, little did I know that Love had won for me" (actually a lyric)

"What you aren't changing, you're choosing"

"Often the hardest thing to do is the best thing"

Lead me
Follow me
Or get out of my way.
(General Paton)

One of mine sounds depressing:
"the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"
But I use it to remind myself that we rarely know what someone else is going through, and to try to be patient and understanding with them!

My DD’s have ‘The Girls’ book and I love that line too!

"Give in to lust, give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll soon be dust"

From Pretty Girls Make Graves by the Smiths.

It's not just about giving up to lust (but also that ) - my interpretation of it was always to live in the moment and make the most of it because life is short.

I'm not sure Morrissey would agree with my interpretation however!

Though she be but little, she is fierce
and
our greatest glory lies not in never having fallen but in rising when we fall

Never argue with a fool, he will drag you down to his level and beat you with his experience. I think it's attributed to Mark Twain.

Life often fails to be perfect, but never fails to be beautiful.

Facts do not cease to be facts because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley.

Comparison is the thief of joy