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

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This is one of mine...attached photo

"Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe"

"The longevity of the abuse should not excuse its continuance "
Dr Johnson .Translates as a rebuttal to the whine :Oh! But we've always done it that way ! "When 'that way ' is clearly a lousy way.
I'm not sure the quote is totally accurate, have long wanted to verify it, recalled from a radio program in the last century ! A quote from Boswell's Life of Johnson.Might just have to read it someday .

I copied and saved this on my phone today:

It is likely that the worth of the soul(s) we’re irritable with is infinitely more precious to God than the thing we desire.

Well behaved women rarely make history

"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

It's Robert Louis Stevenson, who also said "It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire." I like that one too.

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

Mark Twain.

Sorry I've forgotten the name of the poster who gave Mary Oliver's poem about loss, that was AMAZING.

Kingsley Amis -

Life is mainly grief and labour,
Two things get you through.
Chortling when it hits your neighbor,
Whingeing when it's you.

Jean Kerr -
If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs and blaming it on you, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Gerard Manley Hopkins -
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

This one has always given me pause.

Dorkus - I love that, where is it from please?

Your vibe attracts your tribe.

If a woman have the misfortune to know anything, she should do her best to conceal it - Jane Austen.

FiveShelties

Apparently from Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1), 1889.

I saw it in a shop framed and for sale.

Jake the Dog in Adventure Time: "sucking at something is the first step to getting sorta good at it"

A selection from Discworld:

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life

Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people

Oh and this: Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”– Clementine Paddleford, which has inspired a great poem, see www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=268

Samuel Beckett, on god:

'The bastard! He doesn't exist!'

And finally all the life/lemons ones make me think of this from the game Portal 2: "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

Thank you Dorkus

My favourite take on the lemons one is from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. When life gives you lemons you say "Fuck the lemons! And you go and get drunk"

"Sunshine all the times makes a desert."

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift."

"Pride can stand a thousand trials. The strong will never fall"

Yep it's from a cheesy song/soundtrack but I heard this when I was 21, grieving and in a very difficult stage of life and it really resonated. Still does.

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the king. It's the motto of the Order of the Knights of the Round Table, a youth group I was part of as a teen. It has always stayed with me and I take it to mean be mindful of others and your impact on them.

Has anyone mentioned Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford university? Every time I hear it I take something new away from it. I think this is my favourite extract:

• Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.*

I have three favourites:
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
This too will pass.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I can't be the only person giggling at the "something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man"

Only me then!

There's a piece written hygiene a physicist to be read at their funeral, and I find it just lovely. I'm not an atheist, but actually find it more comforting than any other ideas of the afterlife. I can't remember it exactly, but the end is something like

'I'm not gone, not a bit of me, I'm just less organised'