I like this quote

If life an empty bubble be, how sad for those who cannot see the rainbow in the bubble!

No idea who said it but it is on one of my mottoware pieces.

"The smallest good deed is better than the best good intention"

Rubysong My daughter quotes that one to me on a regular basis!

Be nice to your children and their partners, they will probably be choosing your care home.
(I don't know where this came from.)

Pittcity, I have a bookmark which is a Spanish proverb, saying

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

"A person who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism in 6th century BC.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.' Goethe.

This has been a favourite quote of mine for a long time. And now I would add - no matter what age you are.

"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together."

Margaret Atwood.

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. " Leslie Nielson.

"Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie, that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark 'egg on your face'." Moss - the IT crowd

Two of my favourites!

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future".

I have no idea who said that. I read it somewhere recently.

Here's another one I like (Thomas Paine):
“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

"Do as you would be done by"

Google attributes this to the bible (as I thought) and other sources in slightly different forms.

'No good deed goes unpunished.'
Clare Boothe Luce.

Haha, Anya. I need that right now. Thanks!

"The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life."
-Vasudev

Bags-your quote could also reflect beliefs of spiritual people too.

Thanks for starting so interesting a thread.

DH is an Evangelial Atheist Bags. I'll show him that when he surfaces - he's inclined to bouts of SAD in January and his glass tends to be half empty anyway. On second thoughts perhaps I won't show him!

Oh, Anya I like that one!

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur