wise words

[missdilema]

What's your favourite saying or wise words that cheer you up? What's your really profound or clever little ditties that just leave you thinking 'that's great'?
Mine are...Ride the storm.And,nothings ever as bad as it seems.
A big smiley for the cheesiest too.

I rather like:

No-one ever had "I wish I'd spent more time at the office" on their tombstone.

"Don't sweat the small stuff..." (i.e. only worry about the things worth worrying about)

Liamsmum - I like that one

Our familiy was much more grim "Life is real, life is ernest & the grave is not the goal"

my currant dictat is "this too shall pass"

I like all these.I like the one about the rose Mollipops.Some of these are very moving.I love the religious words 'Be still".Talking of epitaph ones ,I can't remember where I heard it but it made me smile was "I told you I was ill."

Can't remember the whole poem but the last 2 lines of it are:

So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep,
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

I repeat this to myself when I find myself telling my boys that I'm busy. And SB34 can testify to the effect this has on my house but who cares?! Life's too short for housework

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

This too shall pass

Oh sod it...why not?

The last in answer to dh suggesting he quit his job.

Hmb, missdilema - love the epitaphs! Sayings I like are:
'Life's too short', 'One door closes as another one opens', 'Life's a journey', 'People are divided into those who see the glass as half full and those who see it as half empty'. Also like listening to Baz Luhrmann's 'Use Suncream', particularly bits like - some of the most interesting people still don't know what they want to do at 50 and also the bit about doing something everyday that frightens you.
Yours philosophically today,
Cecilia

Just thought of another - 'You don't lose anything by asking/trying' and ones that really irritate me are 'We have tried that before and it doesn't work' or 'We have always done it this way'

I love the Jenny Joseph poem Warning, on getting old. I fully intend to follow her lead..bring on the Gin!

I now have a new motto, courtesy of Lambchop in the Front Door stuck thread:

If it moves and it's not meant to, use Duck tape. If it's supposed to move and it doesn't, use WD40.

Hmb - Is the Jenny Joseph poem the one with the old woman behaving badly, doing what she likes and wearing a purple skirt? Or have I got this completely wrong?

That is the one.

Warning

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other peoples' gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

I love the sentiment of this

A real role model to aspire to. Thank you Hmb - it made me smile.

I can only vaguely remember this one but it goes something like 'it's important to have an end to journey towards but it's the journey that matters in the end'. A bit zen I know. I also like that one that goes something like 'God grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change and the wisdom to know the difference'. I'd love to know the real qoutation. Any ideas? I love the Jenny Joseph poem too and how about 'life's not a dress rehearsal.....'

My Mum always says "The house will be there after you are".

If you're not part of the solutio, then you're partof the problem.

Jac34,anyone,what does that one mean'the house will be there after you are gone?

Star, no idea on that one.

There's one that goes: Don't let me criticize another until I have walked a mile in their mocassins. Or something like that.

"Bigger is Better" and yet
"Good things come in small packages" and of course
"It's not the size of the sail, but the motion of the ocean"

I'm sure I've botched all of these.

Star I think its telling you not to be a slave to the housework. As in the house will not fall down around you because you haven't dusted. So get out and enjoy life.

My Grandad used to say (re money) "You can't take it with you", meaning that you might as well enjoy it while you are alive. I think that the house phrase means the same thing i.e. Life's too short to worry about how clean your house is...

My Grandmother used to say 'There are no pockets in a shroud'.
And my Dad used to day 'Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it allows you to be miserable in comfort'

If you can't say anything nice about anyone...come and sit next to me..

more than a handful is a waste.