Things are worse now than what they were before they got as bad as what they are.

If things don't change they'll stay the same.
 
The quickest way to finish a task is to start it
 
If you feel it can't be done, try it, just to prove them wrong.
 
Say what you mean and mean what you say!
 
There is nothing that's impossible to whom that will try......Alexander the Great.
 
Carpe diem
 
If you are not willing to learn ------no one can help you.
If you are willing to learn -------no one can stop, you.🎓
 
Quote no.251 resonates with me. My Sunday school teacher wrote this in my autograph book 80 years ago. "Your life lies before you like a path of untrod snow, be careful where you tread, because every mark will show" . I have passed this on to my grand sons & hope they will never forget it.
 
My response to the usual question when fronting a sales person or at a checkout of "how are you" I'm much better since you asked thankyou", always brings a grin, smile or happy answer.
 
If someone is doing something better than me I’m all ears I want to know how they are doing it “.
 
My late father would tell us,I would if I could but I can't so I won't 😞
 
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Keep smiling, it confuses people.
 
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
 
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old
 
Ever Onwards and Upwards! Is my personal favourite.
When something goes well here and oversees my family and friends laugh, when I give them a hearty Australian retort.
"You, Beauty, Bloody, Ripper, Bonza, mate!"
 
My mother-inlaw used to quote "Everything happens for the Best ".Don't be sad One door closes and another one opens
 
"Why don't I have tattoos? For the same reason you don't put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari!"
 
What is the difference between I love you & I like you?

Beautifully answered by the Buddha:

When you like a flower, you just pluck it.
But when you love a flower, you water it daily..!

One who understands this, understands life....
 

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