QOTW: your favourite quote

[mrsukyankee]

I love quotes.  Love them.  Very fitting for a school counsellor, eh?  So, the question is, "What is a favourite quote of yours?"

I tend to like different ones at different times, but this has always been a favourite: “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

[GilliC]

"When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best... Countries just don't come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious." -Bill Bryson

[expatjen]

"Just keep swimming" - Dory the fish

[doctoranda]

I like two that are related and keep me motivated in several aspects in life like my career and marriage. One is something we used to say in Alanon in the Netherlands but I don't know its origin:" It works if you work it." Meaning as long as you keep working at it, it will actually work (not sit back and expect it to happen by itself as well I guess). And another one is "Trust the process", told to me by one of my professors when I was taking my comprehensive exams for my Ph.D. These two sayings make me keep going when things get rough.

[dorothyinAus]

I have a few that I have written down in my journal and on the first page of my day planner. But the one that I come back to over and over is the last stanza of Robert Frost's poem Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Honestly the whole poem is a touch-point for me, it is my favorite poem and feels so real and full of meaning. I have often thought of it as a written record of prayer-in-place. Anyway, the quote is:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

[samui]

my life my rules