What’s a Quote That Stuck With You?

“Holding onto anger is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

This had a profound effect on me the first time I heard it and I think it has changed me as I tended to hold a grudge.

The future is not what it used to be.

It will all be alright in the end, if it's not alright, it's not the end.

Jane43

“Holding onto anger is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

This had a profound effect on me the first time I heard it and I think it has changed me as I tended to hold a grudge.

This is a great one.

Ninny123

My grandma used to say
As one door closes another opens - I’ve found through life it has proven true on several occasions

A variation on this: As one door closes, another one shuts.

Time wounds all heels.

If debating whether to buy something, do something, basically treat yourself in one way, . my late DM would say, "why not, you're a long time dead". Has worked for me quite otten, even more so as time marches on.

We have to (Circle the Wagons )when someone is in trouble

"And after winter followeth green May"
Geoffrey Chaucer

We can only hope.

"When people show you who they are believe them the first time".

I've read it online a couple of years ago but it stuck with me from that moment because it had proved itself true many times. I'd notice something was wrong when there was a whole smartshow 3d presentation of someone's character traits and I would be very surprised when in fact there were signs subtly showing their true colors here and there from the very beginning.

‘Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace’

Janlara

"And after winter followeth green May"
Geoffrey Chaucer

We can only hope.

What a lovely line. Thanks!

Good clean dirt !!! Something my lovely mother always said when we came in from playing a bit on the mucky side! She also used to say it if we moaned about our own children getting mucky. I actually think she was so right when I see my own GC stuck in front of their computers and never a speck of dirt to be seen.

“If you can fill the unfullfilléd minute,
with sixty seconds worth of distance run, thine is the earth, and all that is within it and, which is more, you’ll be a man, my son.”

Kipling but quoted by my father and never forgotten

Everything happens for a reason. No, it doesn’t.

Time you've enjoyed wasting is not a waste of time.

eddiecat78

Mark Twain "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened "

I need to remember this one

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, Its thinking of yourself less. C.S Lewis

“Let them”. Bit trite and overused now maybe but has made me stop and reset my thinking many times.

Many things may be preserved in alcohol but dignity is not one of them

Civilisation is a veneer readily soluble in alcohol.

I love the last two!

"Do as you would be done by". from Charles Kingsley's Water Babiees which I read ad a yougs.ter.

Better to keep your mouth shut and look a fool, than open it and prove that you are. .

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is one that stays with me plus the old one about never speaking ill of anyone because it will get back to them. So true.