I like this quote

“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

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!

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.

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

"Do as you would be done by"

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

"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.”

"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!

"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.

'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.

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

"I know there's a balance, I see it as I swing past"

John Mellencamp

Anya..... v v apt for me!

You need both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.

It might have been Jill Tweedie in Letters from a Faint-hearted Feminist who said that the wonderful thing about being pregnant was that you could be doing nothing and still know that you were busy doing something.

Spend more time with those that make you smile.

On, Something Understood, on radio 4 last night, someone said the line, "Most men live lives of quiet desperation" and followed it with the lesser known next line, "And die with their song still inside them". Made me think, that did. Along the lines of "seize the day".

You will meet people richer than you, more intelligent than you and in a different social position than you but you will never meet anyone better than you - (my grandad)

No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission (Elenor Roosevelt - I think)

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Anon

I also loved anya 's piece.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

and on a light note:

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs ......
Then you obviously don't understand the situation"
(don't know who came up with this, apologies to Kipling)