Little sayings that make you feel better/realise things

Sleep when you're dead - just a reminder to myself sometimes to have a good time and don't worry about missing a few hours sleep (far too sensible for my own good sometimes ?)

You're a long time dead. So just get on and do what you want to do!

Mr G's favourite phares to me is - whats the worst that could happen? I'm still crap at remembering it.

Makes me think of Dr Pepper ?

This is something my brother's passed on to me:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

I know it's got the G-word in, but it helps even him, who is the least Christian person I know ?

In relation to my job

'its not who I am, it's just what I do'

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."

From the Desiderata - Max Ehrmann

I heard this one a few months ago and it has stuck with me, It's probably been around for years but I really like it.

"Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present."

? I really like that one !

Mine is "If X is the worst that has happened to you, then you've lived a charmed life."

Per my husband "This too will pass" and per my Mum "every day is special" which is her logic behind never saving good wine for a special occasion.

I also like 'There are no stupid questions but there are a hell of a lot of inquisative idiots"

The BT mantra "this too will pass" (a la King Solomon and Abe Lincoln).

And the wisdom of Dory - "just keep swimming". ?

Lol, love that one ?

Another dry martini, dear? (my husband on a Friday night, after a bad day at work. Sigh)

"It's always darkest before dawn" is a great one

"When it rains, look for rainbows; when it's dark, look for stars" - this was actually a fridge magnet that I used to have on my desk. A bit cheesy but somehow makes sense!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger....

The best things in life are free.

and this is a special saying that my nan made me learn off by heart when i was a little girl;

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves

Its not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire

Happiness is something we are

I believed in this saying so much that when i left Uni and went travelling many moons ago I got a tattoo in Oz on my lower back, a symbol meaning to be happy, to enjoy your life....

Hamlet

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

I like it because it made me realise in the depths of teenage angst that I had the power to spin things however I wanted to and I could think about them positively or negatively. Tis hard to apply in real life though!

You can only ever do you best, and no-one will ever expect anything more

My mum wrote that in the letter she put under my pillow when she packed me off to uni.

Talking of cheesey ones, I love this: As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way ?

And my father's favourite wish for newly weds - lang may yer lum reek wi' ither folk's coal! ?

The one I always write in people's guest books is: May your love be as deep as loch ness, and your troubles be as rare as the monster ??

Unfortunately the mantra 'you only regret the things you don't do' meant that I was rather a slut in my younger days!

That probably wasn't very helpful - sorry!

? That's very sweet!

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My H says "two chances" - it might happen, it might not, out of our hands.

I try and remind myself:

"it's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got"

From my H, "What's for you, won't go by you".

One that has always stuck with me is-

"Dont cry because its over, cry because it happened"

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My husband has always said to me "If you can get better, take it" It's a bit of a standing joke with us but it always makes me smile. He's not found better (yet) and nor have I (yet) ?

I'm in the "you're a long time dead" school of though.

My grandfather always said "What will be, will be"

From my dear, departed friend

"Who dares, gins"

Cheers Jonny ?

Should that be "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened"?

My favourite is "I never did mind about the little things", as said by Bridget Fonda in Assasins (great movie). I always used to think it to myself when my ex MIL was being a pain in the arse. Now she's no longer my MIL, I'd be more inclined to say "Go *** yourself, you miserable old cow"

I like:

'Better to go alone than be badly accompanied' really helped me when I split up with my ex H twunt

I also like 'Better to have loved and lost than live with a pycho the rest of your life' SLD sent me that as a fridge magnet ?