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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:
ozymandiusking · 13/11/2022 00:35

"What day is it?" asked Pooh.
"It's today" squeaked Piglet.
" My favourite day" said Pooh.

KikiniBamalamm · 13/11/2022 00:37

I have lots:

The axe forgets but the tree remembers

In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.

If you do not pick a day to relax, then your body will pick it for you.

You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/ spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street.
You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilisation in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female.

Long ago, when I was in my insecure twenties, I met a clever, independent, creative, and powerful woman in her mid-seventies, who offered me a superb piece of life wisdom. She said:
"We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we're so worried about what people will think of us.
Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us.
But you won't be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realise this liberating truth- nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow. They aren't. They weren't. They never were. People are mostly just thinking about themselves…”

Luredbyapomegranate · 13/11/2022 00:39

Make a decision. Doesn’t really matter what, just make one.

Don’t let great be the enemy of good.

Change is in the small things.

Also, the fact that humans share 50% of our DNA with bananas. I know it’s not a quote, but I think it’s worth remembering.*

*I also know it’s not DNA in the same order and stuff, like chimps, but still.

Luredbyapomegranate · 13/11/2022 00:41

Oh 2 more

Be your own best friend.

No one is thinking about you. They are thinking about themselves, just like you.

TheZenOne22 · 13/11/2022 00:46

A few of mine:

This too shall pass

A shy boy gets no sweets

Right now you are 1 choice away from a new beginning - Oprah Winfrey

We can do hard things

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway - Earl Nightingale

GeorgiaGirl52 · 13/11/2022 00:52

“It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.”
― Robert E. Lee

scoobydoo1971 · 13/11/2022 00:59

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

mrstibbles · 13/11/2022 01:01

''When they go low you go high''

''Treat others how you would like to be treated yourself''

''There are no pockets in a shroud''

The first one I think was Michelle Obama and the others often quoted by my mum .

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 13/11/2022 01:02

Do as you would be done by !

mrstibbles · 13/11/2022 01:03

Another good one...

Comparison is the thief of joy.

TeamHerbivore · 13/11/2022 01:04

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

BuckarooBanzai · 13/11/2022 01:10

"Though lovers be lost love shall not and death shall have no dominion"
Dylan Thomas

Cucumberbund · 13/11/2022 01:19

One I've found very helpful is 'what you cannot avoid you must embrace' it helps me change my mindset in certain situations.
Also inscribed on the grave of Marjorie Merriweather Post ( Kellogg heiress)
'All my hopes rest in me'

blueshoes · 13/11/2022 01:29

Vigneau · 12/11/2022 13:40

That reminds me of -

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

I like this

MadCattery · 13/11/2022 01:37

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

blueshoes · 13/11/2022 01:42

"The Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step." I like this one from a previous poster.
Success is little things done well.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The best revenge is living well.

[Not sure why I am so vengeful today]

Acatnamedfox · 13/11/2022 02:02

Some of these are wonderful 😍

“only look back to see how far you’ve come” - for days when I’m stuck pondering, what if?

”you can’t help who you fall in love with but you can help who you hurt” - a poignant saying my dad used to say whenever adultery was mentioned.

FatOaf · 13/11/2022 02:22

Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.

  • Hector Berlioz
TealSapphire · 13/11/2022 04:50

skilpadde · 13/11/2022 00:28

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"".

Mary Anne Radmacher

That's a new one to me. I really like it!

ImustLearn2Cook · 13/11/2022 07:32

I can’t remember where I read it and can’t quote it exactly but it went something like this:

You can change the way you feel about something by changing your attitude.

Unicorn1919 · 13/11/2022 09:41

Said to me by an older and wiser but more junior colleague when I was getting frustrated over the work of another junior a long time ago:

"If we were all as capable and efficient as you; we would all be on your pay grade."

It was a salient reminder to me as a young manager, that I should be more patient and understanding in my role as a manager of others, and it stayed with me all my life to the extent that I later became a teacher. It was a life-changing moment for me.

Vigneau · 13/11/2022 10:14

scoobydoo1971 · 13/11/2022 00:59

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

I quite fancy having a rave when I reach my three score years and ten!

cherry2727 · 13/11/2022 10:26

We repeat what we don't repair !

validnumber · 13/11/2022 10:36

'Dig deep and find your fight'

My Dad

Biffatcrafts · 13/11/2022 12:18

If the phoenix rose from it's ashes,
I plan to make fire from my tears.

Spanish poet - sorry cannot remember who - but that quote has helped me start some amazing fires!

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