Am I the only one to loathe inspirational quotes...

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...and especially gifts with these quotes written on them?

Before anyone jumps down my throat

• I am grateful for the thought behind the gift, as it is well intentioned
• I also realise it is just an opinion (not an AIBU) and probably akin to hating puppies and other cute animals.

However, it just sets my teeth on edge and makes me want to metaphorically poke someone in the eye (which I never do, metaphorically or literally).

I just want to know that I am not alone in my irrational loathing of something that is fundamentally nice and probably helpful to others.

I have some subversive ones on postcards around my desk. And DS2 has a JK Rowling quote about reading on his wall. Don't give a bugger if no-one else likes them

I have the" Life is a journey not a destination " on my landing wall ( are they still called landings or are they called some other wanky word these days ?) Every time I see it my I shout "FUCK OFF !"

I must admit to being rather partial to

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow
Learn as if you were to live forever"

On the whole though, they're a bunch of arse. And the hashtags are even worse.

I blame Desiderata and the sunscreen "poem".

I'm retraining and my course tutor's inspirational quote postcards make me want to give up!

It's worse because inspirational quotes are often colloquial and she'll stick new inspirational quotes on the door of an exam room (or worse a room in which we have to present to a panel) and I won't understand the sodding quotes, which is the absolute desperate opposite of inspiring (I'm retraining abroad and using another language - academic language is totally different to inspirational quote language)!

My favourite!

One of the reasons I left my first husband was because he was as tight as arses.

My silent amusement when my children told me he and his new wife have Live, Laugh, Love aye filled in their lounge wall and on their bedroom wall as he was too tight to fork out for a second stencil

*Stencilled

@BlessYourCottonSocks, I'm taking that. ❤❤❤

Things are are genuinely thought-provoking I quite like. I had a book journal a few years ago and wrote down moments from books that made me think. It was quite therapeutic actually.

I hate the live laugh love things and other twee nonsense about dancing on the rain etc. Even worse if they are on pointless household objects or statues in their own right.

Love that christmasraven - it made me dance like no-one was watching

OP you clearly need the sign which says "Give peas a chance"

YANBU. I hate the ones that declare the item underneath in big letters I.e BATH.

My daughter has one that says " I only have a kitchen because it came with the house" but she was a terrible cook.

"Everything happens for a reason". Really?

A lot of the trite slogans are a convenient way of not having to be supportive or acknowledge that someone's having a hard time. They are banal, infantilising and false.

All you have to do is "live, laugh, love", "be a radiator not a drain" and "think positive" and your life will be sorted. Hmmm

OutPinked best use of those is to label incorrect items. Bread bin? Label it "BATH". Dog's bowl? Label it "Keep calm and drink Prosecco".

My daughter has one that says " I only have a kitchen because it came with the house" but she was a terrible cook.

I was gifted that one, plus

Housework won't kill you, but why take the chance?

I was in Poundland today buying bird food and two fourteen year olds? Were discussing how much they liked the wooden painted 'Gin and bear it sign'

I hate them. And I hate them even more if they're on twee little whitewashed, fake aged signs, held up with old bits of string.

My friend and I both hate them, and often send each other photos of particularly bad ones we see out and about.

My workplace has started putting up giant inspirational quotes up on walls in big curly fonts around the building. It's awful.

Yes yes and yes! Hate them with a passion! I love the book The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman where he unpacks 'positivr thinking's and there's lots of evidence it makes you feel worse. So I feel there is science behind my loathing of these.

We recently had 'wellbeing' training at work which consists of one Facebook meme after another, delivered by an overarching city boy who'd got stressed at work then discovered an easy way to milk the public sector for more cash. I've also recently left a teacher's wellbeing group on FB because all it is is the same shite. Hate hate hate. (Did I mentioned I hate them?)

live as if you were going to die tomorrow
No-one would bother going into work, would they?

I can't stand them and always thought I was just a cynical old grump until I found this thread.

We get a grumpycat calendar every year which has a corrupted quote for every month... things like ' absence makes the heart grow fonder... of your absence'.

I recall laughing at things like these advertised in airline magazines in the 80s, never expected to see them on people's walls thirty years later! Hideous.

So cringe

1000 things to see/do/eat before you die. As opposed to after you die?

I think a genuine quote from an author (JK Rowling) or other person you admire is entirely different to these crap, ten a penny "quotes". Even then, you don't need to have them whittled onto an aged piece of driftwood and put on your wall