Inspirational, uplifting quotes

An old Chinese proverb.
A man who asks a question is a fool for 5 mins.
A man who never asks a question is a fool for ever.

Every Saint has a past.
Every sinner has a future

After sorrow or a shock : " It isn't something you get over, it's something you get through."

From the Buddha 'it passes'.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

(Shirley Conran ?)

Know thyself. (Greek axiom)

Smile while you still have teeth........

My inspirational life quotes (frasi sull amore) is:
To love someone means to want to grow old next to them (Albert Camus)

I've only just stumbled on this thread. Some of my favourite quotes:

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Buddha

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses Abraham Lincoln

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey;
He who blames himself is halfway there;
He who blames no-one has arrived. Chinese proverb

I love the Churchill one!

My favourite current one is
"There is not a flood that will not subside" - acquired while learning Scottish Gaelic online.
(Chan eil tuil air nach tig traoghadh)

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery,
today is a gift - that’s why we call it the present.

-How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
-Winnie the Pooh

Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be.
-Eeyore

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
(Oscar Wilde - who else?).

“Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it.”
John Gay’s epitaph.

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

and my absolute favourite:

"No-one is ever old enough to know better".

Failure is not falling down, it's not getting up again

"Life is a creeping tragedy. Therefore we must be cheerful."

and

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”

I don't know who said the first but the second is from Paradise Lost. I had it on my wall throughout university.

Oh yes........

Love many, trust a few,
Learn to paddle your own canoe.

I don’t know the origin of this but it’s a good guide for living.

Go ugly early.

So true. x

Never say anything that cannot stand as the last thing you said.
The vow of a woman who survived Auschwitz.

Thank you Grandmafrench. It helped me so much when I was learning to dress, feed myself and walk again after my brain injury ?

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths

Anne Bancroft

(So true!)

Blossoming

Don’t know who said this one :-

When you’re going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill.

We have this written in the wall in our gym room:
Don’t stop when you are tired,
stop when you are done.