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

[ILookAtLifeFromBothSidesNow]

This is one of mine...attached photo

No star is ever lost that once was seen -
We always may be what we might have been

This is mine. And Hotwater Oscar Wilde is life to me, I love the Ballad of Reading Gaol.

"En ma fin git mon commencement."
Translation: In my end is my beginning.

Motto Marry Queen of Scots embroidered on her cloth of estate whilst imprisoned in England. I have this tattooed on my ribs. I love what it symbolises and it helped me stay positive when I had to start over again. To see my old life ending not as disaster but an opportunity to grow, and a start of something bigger and better. And it was

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies A lass unparalleled (Cleopatra)

"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." (Cloud Atlas)

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” (A River Runs through it)

There's so many ways of that going wrong it's just a question of which one to choose really (line from W1A)

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hope this works - it's a fantastic poem.

The whole poem. This was in my head when reading the threads about Zombie's passing.

Bjorn Olinder's Pictures

I have learned about dying by looking at two pictures
Bjorn Olinder needed to look at when he was dying:
A girl whose features are obscured by the fall of her hair
Planting flower,
and a seascape: beyond the headland
A glimpse of immaculate sand that awaits our footprints.

Michael Longley

I really like "what's for you won't go by you", but I don't like "this too shall pass". Some things don't pass!!

You're a long time looking at the lid.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Same as NC1, "All will be well and all things will be well and all manner of things will be well. " Julian of Norwich :-)

Oscar Wilde, " We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
Gandhi " Be the change you want to see in the world"
Audrey Hepburn " For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak words of kindness "

"To every bad there is a worse."

I'm a right sour cow!

When life gives you lemonade, make lemons and life will be like "whaaaaaat?"

Phil Dunphy

GunnyHighway

Love!

This one by Douglas Adams made me laugh. 'I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they rush past'.

"No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little" Edmund Burke

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely seas and sky" John Masefield at the start of Sea Fever

The trouble is, you think you have time. Buddha

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

If you threw the world's problems into the air you'd be happy to catch your own. - don't know who said it though.

There is more under heaven and earth than is dreamt of in our philosophy. (Hamlet)

O beware, my Lord, of jealousy. 'Tis the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. (From Othello)

You could not have offered me your hand in any method that could have tempted me to accept. From the very beginning, your manners impressed me with the fully belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain for the feelings o others. I had not known you a month before I knew you were the last man in the world I could ever marry! (From Pride and Prejudice)

fullest* belief

There is pleasure in the pathless woods/There is laughter on the lonely shore/There is society where none intrudes/By the deep sea and music in its roar...

Mahatma Ghandi

'You can't take the pants off a bare arse'

• by my dad (when mum was worried about the bailiffs calling.)