To think this is the best quote ever?

[Cillia]

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I think it’s great for people who regret things, etc.

Saw it at the end of that film in cinemas.

Thought it was great

“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing.”

I quite like 'Ever tried. Ever failied. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'

Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most

Ever failed

Bloody hell. What a word to misspell.

LOVE "chuck it in the fuck-it bucket". That's already made me feel better about a few crap situations!

Ursula K LeGuin is one of my favourite quote-sayers. This one's topical:

"When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...

Brilliant quote but those people sound like a bloody nightmare.

Along with that one about If you can't cope with me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best or something like it. Just sounds like a stomping, irritating handful.

Good thread, though OP. Some of the well-used quotes are still inspiring for a good reason.

Enjoying the division between the optimists and the nihilists on this thread 😂

Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets in disguise.

Also love this print I recently purchased

My favourite quote is “don’t fight with pigs, you both get dirty but the pig enjoys it”.

The one I am about is “it will be alright in the end, if it’s not alright it’s not the end”. I always think that’s so trite for people who are very ill or have had an awful accident, because their end is not alright.

today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday and all is well

Actually the most inspirational thing anyone ever said to me was when I was lamenting ill health that had stopped me from running and how I couldn’t even be bothered to try as I would never get back to the running standard I used to be at before. She said “well you might not that’s true, but you’ll still be running won’t you? You’ll be at another level but if you don’t even try you’ll still just be here, never running at all”. I think this can be applied to most areas of life.

"Never play chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.
Then shits all over the board.
Then struts around like it won."

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

Nobody has everything but everybody has something.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Not exactly inspirational, but one of my favourites is Coco Chanel

"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all"

My favourite is a Robin Hobb quote:

"Never do something that you cannot undo until you have considered what you cannot do once you have done it" - or words to that effect.

"Never do something that you cannot undo until you have considered what you cannot do once you have done it" - or words to that effect.

wise words. .....................anyone else immediately think "kids"?

“don’t fight with pigs, you both get dirty but the pig enjoys it”

Yep, thats a favourite one of me and daughters as well but we say, never wrestle with a pig, you'll both get dirty but the pig will enjoy it.

It should be tomorrow is...
Because if today is shit, you still have hope!
But no its not the best quote ever...

I'm not so keen on your one OP, but I like the don't fight with pigs one!

I'm not one for quotes much as many can be just so trite and with health problems and things beyond my control to deal with they just leave me annoyed... but i do like the serenity prayer (though I am not religious) when I remember to think about it.

it is commonly quoted as

(god) Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

It speaks to me about letting go, being smart and recognising that life often takes courage though we might not credit ourselves with it, and to keep on doing what we can do.

Also I like "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow" Mary Anne Radmacher

People can underestimate the quiet persistent strength it can take just to accept waking up tomorrow knowing that what will happen probably won't be fun or easy, but doing it anyway. (Thinking of my DH :()

Einstein: "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result".

I always figured this showed that Einstein lived in the era before the Windows PC.

'Don't judge your inside by other people's outside'

I'm sure Jane Eyre says something about it being the first day of the rest of her life when she goes off to start the governess job. So it's quite an old quote then.

Oh yes, forgot to add, best quote ever is:

Be excellent to each other - Bill and Ted.