What is your life motto? Come and list them here. Number1- don't sweat the small stuff. Add yours.

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As I say, I'm going to try to live by:

'Don't sweat the small stuff'.

I'd like to see hundreds of others and see what other people base their lives/sanity on.

So list them here!

You can't take it with you

(meaning money, so you may as well spend it!)

where there is alien slime there is usually trouble

It'll be okay in the end - if it's not okay, it's not the end.

DH has one for work "Just try not to be shit" (he used to be a perfectionist but had to relax his standards a bit when he started his own company!). I use it for lots of things now.

If you can't set a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.

life's a bitch, and then you die.

theres only one certainly in life.
death.

"Always join in other people's arguments. Try to get others to join in, too."

'Isolate yourself from human contact, shout at anyone who invades your personal space'

'Never cry, bottle up your unhappiness so that it grows like a giant fungus inside a rotting tree stump'

'Stockpile memories of things that really depress you, remember them, relive them, reflect on them, fit them into your daily routine'

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

AND

This too shall pass

lol boco

shit happens

You can't control what people do, but you can control how you react to them.......

Like the Maya Angelou quote Heated. As someone who is less than restrained when expressing anger, I wholeheartedly agree.

Mine is:

Never ever chew a pea. They are evil on the inside.

And:

Nobody is watching so crack on you fool.

Love the one about dancing in the rain.

I also like the bible quote about letting today's own troubles be sufficient for today.

Recognise the difference between having and living

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans

'F* off the lot of your, leave me alone!"

Oh sorry. Not so much a motto as an involuntary unspoken plea, that flashes into my mind several times a day.

I also 'just keep swimming'

I quote the sainted auntie mabel .... ' come along then pippin, this won't do!'

One of my faves:
let us now be up and doing,
with a heart for any fate

and a new one ..

keep calm and carry on

Just remembered another one:

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom.

(Which my sister insists on rephrasing as 'there aren't enough mushrooms in the world' for some reason..)

Yes, I like the old WW2 one too - Keep Calm and Carry On.

'Eagles soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.'
'Some say when life gives you lemons make lemonade. I say wing 'em right back and add some lemons of your own.' (Calvin & Hobbes)
In fact most of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoons provide the best mottoes to live by.

One of my granny's was "live long and die happy".

Another one I really like is "make memories, not plans"

medogsarebarking, may i direct you to my post of 11:48

keep calm and carry on

why thank you