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Do you have a favourite quote?

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Fentylipgloss · 12/11/2022 11:02

This is definitely mine!

Do you have a favourite quote?
OP posts:
LutherRalph1 · 12/11/2022 13:26

I like:

"It'll all be alright in the end,
If it's not alright, it's not the end"

Nospringchickendipper · 12/11/2022 13:26

Comparison is the thief of joy

SirenSays · 12/11/2022 13:35

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt

Vigneau · 12/11/2022 13:40

LutherRalph1 · 12/11/2022 13:26

I like:

"It'll all be alright in the end,
If it's not alright, it's not the end"

That reminds me of -

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday and all is well.

Tulipsandorchids · 12/11/2022 13:44

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice

Isthatascratchonmygrandmother · 12/11/2022 13:47

If I cannot find a way, I will make one

Derrymum123 · 12/11/2022 13:50

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. (Nelson Mandela)

IhateMattHancock · 12/11/2022 13:51

Hell is other people (Sartre)

Those who matter don't mind, those who mind don't matter.

hesmatthancockgethimoutofthere · 12/11/2022 13:52

"It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice"!

littleburn · 12/11/2022 13:54

You can't pour from an empty cup.

Not my circus, but my monkeys.

Both useful ones to remember when you've been as shit with boundaries as I used to be! 😁

Onthecuspofabreakthrough · 12/11/2022 13:54

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power"
Marcus Aurelius. Love him.

LemonRedwood · 12/11/2022 13:54

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

James Baldwin

wickerhearth · 12/11/2022 13:57

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting...

Paperdove87 · 12/11/2022 13:58

He who bends to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise

William Blake

Cadolz · 12/11/2022 13:59

" There are no solutions to problems, there are only trade - offs "

coodawoodashooda · 12/11/2022 14:03

These are great

december2020 · 12/11/2022 14:12

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

And

Now that you don't need to be perfect, you can be good.

Both Steinbeck, one of my favourite authors.

LutherRalph1 · 12/11/2022 14:52

@Vigneau I love that!

CalmConfident · 12/11/2022 14:58

Comparison is the thief of joy

@Nospringchickendipper beat me to it !

CalmConfident · 12/11/2022 15:01

I like this one

Do you have a favourite quote?
PeloFondo · 12/11/2022 15:01

Courage is just fear holding on a minute longer

PeloFondo · 12/11/2022 15:04

And a peloton one for when a ride is hard
"You've done harder things than ride a damn bike to Justin bieber"

Notwashingup · 12/11/2022 15:10

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
Jamal Edwards

merryhouse · 12/11/2022 15:37

"god is love; and those who live in love live in god, and god lives in them"

I can do anything for fifteen minutes

the root of evil is treating people like things

chorusline79 · 12/11/2022 15:43

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain