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....to ask you for your favourite quotes?

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ILookAtLifeFromBothSidesNow · 04/02/2017 22:24

This is one of mine...attached photo Smile

....to ask you for your favourite quotes?
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ThisIsntFunnyDean · 04/02/2017 23:42

horizontal desire is what I should have written! Ffs!

TropicalFlamingo · 04/02/2017 23:42

Be who you are because the people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind - Dr Seuss

nebulae · 04/02/2017 23:46

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are - Marcus Aurelius

user1471467016 · 04/02/2017 23:50

Severus Snape

It gave me something after I lost Mam, it echoes her complete love and the security I had with her

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PastaSellByDate · 04/02/2017 23:52

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

maggiecate · 04/02/2017 23:53

"There's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Areyoufree · 05/02/2017 00:04

'It's never too late to have a happy childhood' Tom Robbins.

dogsdieinhotcars · 05/02/2017 00:05

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?”
― Stephen Levine

Princessdebthe1st · 05/02/2017 00:07

Attributed to various people, most commonly Rosalind Roosevelt: "They don't care what you know, until they know that you care." This is my philosophy of teaching and nursing.

thatone · 05/02/2017 00:16

A French one I read which roughly translated means

'Do not lose your life by trying to win at it'

and a line about a character in the Kate Atkinson book 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' -can't remember exactly but along the lines of
'Ve collected good days' - which I always think of when anything makes me happy.

thatone · 05/02/2017 00:17

'He collected ....'

pinkoneblueone · 05/02/2017 00:18

It's been used on here before but...

"What's for you won't go by you"

That's my favourite one that always sticks with me.

Westfox · 05/02/2017 00:19

"Their is a certain quality about quantity" - Stalin

"I am going out, I may be sometime"- Captain Oats

Chottie · 05/02/2017 00:20

"A man is as big as the things than make him angry" Winston Churchill

"Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine any brighter"

"Love, like starlight never dies"

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud" Oprah Winfrey

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on"

And I would add anything said by Maya Angelou.

DearMrDilkington · 05/02/2017 00:21

From The Lorax, wonderful book for children.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 05/02/2017 00:22

If life gives you lemons. Make lemonade.
I'm so great. I'm jealous of myself.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 05/02/2017 00:27

When a women gives birth. Not only is a child born, but so too is a mother.

DearMrDilkington · 05/02/2017 00:27

That's lovely user. The snape quote is beautiful and yet so simple.

mycatsmellsnice · 05/02/2017 00:33

"Conventionality is not morality" Charlotte Bronte.

nebulae · 05/02/2017 00:35

dogs I love that, one to add to my list of favourites.

TescoCarrierBag · 05/02/2017 00:39

Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
Voltaire.

ILookAtLifeFromBothSidesNow · 05/02/2017 00:55

Oh wow.....so many to add to my favourites!

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UnbornMortificado · 05/02/2017 01:03

Mine, second ones a meme more then a quote though.

....to ask you for your favourite quotes?
....to ask you for your favourite quotes?
ScarlettFreestone · 05/02/2017 01:04

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

UnbornMortificado · 05/02/2017 01:07

Should of RTFT. Five it was me that posted it, seemed very fitting for Z.

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