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

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This is one of mine...attached photo

I like the Churchill one, "if you are going through hell, keep going".
I also quite like " God helps those who help themselves", not sure why and I'm not particularly religious.

A gypsies gold dosnt glitter and clink,
It gleams in the sun,
And it Neighs in the dark....

This is great, thanks. I'm compiling a book of quotes for a relatives birthday so have pinched a few of these.

Very cliched, but: 'don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.'

'If that's the worst thing that ever happens to you, count yourself lucky.' (My late grandma, if we complained about trivial things!)

'happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.'

'Stars can't shine without darkness.'

'I'm too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.'

"Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line"
John Keats, Lamia

"Of one that lived not wisely, but too well" Shakespeare, Othello

It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson

Many a mickle makes a muckle - My Dad

"Done is better than perfect"

Sheryl Sandberg

This is my absolute favourite thread ever, I love it and so many of these are worth holding on to! Brilliant!

Here is on from my dad:
'you have a brain, use it, and fuck everyone else!'

He wanted to believe in myself, it really stayed with me because he shouted it and he meant it!

And another:-

"A sentimentalist is one who desires to have the luxury of emotion without paying the price".

There's a lot of this about I think.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

'I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.' - Jung

They're all mad except thee and me and sometimes I wonder about thee...

'Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt' ~ Kurt Vonnegut

'There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning' ~ Louis L'Amour

'The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.'

'Love is not true love that alters when alteration finds'

Probably inaccurately-quoted but I use these versions all the time...

That's a good one OP.

Truth and love will always win through - Gandhi

What cannot be said will be wept.

To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is success - Melinda Gates mother.

I'll be your friend until time stops - The Weaver from Precious Bane

I will use memories, I won't allow them to use me.

Love is the ultimate truth.

Come out of the circle of time into the circle of love - Rumi

We're an ocean in a drop.

I collect quotes and have many written down, this thread has added to my collection, so thank you for that.

If you can dream it you can achieve it, all our dreams can come true you just need the courage to pursue them.

And

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can worrying wont make it any better.

They are both walt disney I love them and if you have a google he said alot of inspirational things.

Sick it up cupcake

Absolute fucking lols

Suck it up cupcake

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Cervantes

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” –The Goblet of Fire

"I don't care that they stole my idea......I care that they don't have any of their own."

"I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Both Nikola Tesla.

Place marking to pop back and read when I'm not catching up with Tom Hardy....

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change those things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Use it all the time to try and calm myself if I'm panicking.