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Quotes and Affirmations Our Community of Over 60s Live By

Jun 13, 2013
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We asked on our Facebook page what our community’s favourite affirmations and quotes were, and were flooded with the responses.  In fact they were quite frankly just too good to leave in Facebook’s history alone… so we’ve pulled them across today, and share them with you…

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did…. Thanks to everyone who contributed.  If you have more, add them in the comments section…

Anne Kerr wrote:

Note to self:
Relax,
You have enough 
You are enough
You do enough

 

Rebecca Wilson wrote:

“enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll realise they were the big things”.

 

Avril Samuels wrote:

When you truly care for someone, their mistakes never change your feelings, because it’s the mind that gets angry BUT THE HEART STILL CARES!

 

Cilla Page wrote:

Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant!

 

Carole Marshall wrote:

“Living well is the best revenge”. George Herbert (1593-1633). That old boy knew a thing or two!

 

Linda J. Vaughan wrote:

Life is not a rehearsal

 

Marilyn Sassybrunette Hurst wrote:

What goes around comes around

 

Patricia Percival wrote:

Every day above ground is a good one!!!

 

Linda Armstrong wrote:

“If in doubt, Don’t”

Steve Brewer wrote:

The problem is not the problem,
It’s your attitude about the problem……

 

Jacky Wheeler wrote:

Treat others as you would like to be treated

 

Susan Dunn wrote:

Gettin’ old ain’t for sissies.

 

Marilyn Sassybrunette Hurst wrote:

Take time out to smell the roses

 

Merlin Ivory wrote:

Do all the good you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. John Wesley

 

Rod Faithfull wrote:

Life can be a bit like riding a bicycle into a head wind. If the wind gets stronger don’t let it blow you backwards. Stand up on the peddles and push harder.

 

Steve Powderly wrote:

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!!

 

Linda Bowman wrote:

1. Don’t eat anything you can’t lift – Miss Piggy

2. Age does not matter – unless you are a cheese

 

Marilyn Stokes wrote:

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

 

Marj Davis wrote:

Live! Like someone left the gate open!

 

Rosaleen Symons wrote:

Write your own story, then live it

 

Anthony Gerald Roberts wrote:

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Claire Rhodes Bousfield wrote:

“What a joy, to travel the way of the Heart.” – * Rumi

 

Lorna Tritton wrote:

Nothing ever stays the same!!!

 

Mardy Penrose wrote:

“Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams”

 

Marion Silk wrote:

Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans

 

Taylor-Smith Lorraine wrote:

Look after those, who look after you…..

 

Merv Hargraves wrote:

The harder I work, the luckier I get

 

Kris Pannah wrote:

“Everyday and in every way, I am getting better and better”

 

Paul Noel Starling wrote:

They say that once you reach Sixty that you are “Over the Hill”. But don’t worry, you pick up speed on the other side, because it is all downhill from there.

 

Paul Noel Starling wrote:

“The OLDER I get, the Better I WAS”.

Jacqui Lee wrote:

Mine is remember yesterday, dream of tomorrow, but LIVE today.

 

Lonni Strano wrote:
“Every Dog has it’s Day”…………”All Chickens Come Home To Roost”
Sharon Welch wrote:
What goes around comes around!
Cheryl Darke wrote:
Honesty Integrity Passion
“If it is to be, it is up to me”
Life is a gift
true love is priceless
give love to the ones who love
you will always be fulfilled
“you are the master of you destiny if you sit around and feel sorry for yourself you are the only one who will so get up an brush yourself off and live life to the fullest there is always someone worse off than you “
“When you think you are at rock bottom and nothing can get worse something or someone comes along to pick you up”
Nobodies perfect……. and I’m nobody
You will see it when you believe it.
Jean Marshall  wrote:
ADAPT, AND OVERCOME!
Enjoy life you are a long time dead.
Noel Luckie wrote:
I am Me and it is going to take someone special to change that. SINGLE and loving it.
Diana Jason wrote:
Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today, and of course those famous words of Malcolm Fraser, Life wasn’t meant to be easy!
Joy Smythe wrote:
Be kind to your self and your friends
Hendos Place wrote:
“If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything”
You can always keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool BUT don’t open it up and let them know for certain!!!
Monica Field wrote:
If in doubt, DON’T.
Sherryl Potts  wrote:
 “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun!” Kathryn Hepburn
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent…Eleanor Roosevelt.
Des Bellamy wrote:
I must interpret the life about me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however strange it may be to mine…. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also.
– Albert Schweitzer, Civilisation and Ethics
Owen Mycock wrote:
if i’m not one early i’m half an hour late..
Never say next time just do it now
Kevin Johns wrote:
The man who loves by hi ideals is the man that is alive!
Inge Riebe wrote:
Don’t worry be happy.
And my own version worrying is a sin
Those that drink at the well would do well to remember those who dug it.
Janice Bawden wrote:
I am grateful each day for something or someone in my life
I have two – “Life’s Too Short” (I have LTS tatooed on my wrist, and that’s another topic!) and “Don’t wait for things to happen – MAKE them happen!”
Jennie Towan wrote:
Shit happens.
Lonni Strano wrote:
“It Is What It Is”
Live and let live ……..
This too shall pass!

Lynette Bazin wrote:

Life is 95% attitude and 5% aptitude

 

Kerry Victoria Potter wrote:

To give is but to receive …..

 

Raewyn Marjorie Oliver wrote:

Always take the weather with you!

Vicki Agius wrote:
If it is to be, it’s up to me
Be Positive, friendly and love all animals.
From Bob Dylan “to live outside the law you must be honest” (Where are you Tonight Sweet Marie)
Keep your words positive because your words become your actions
Keep your actions positive becaus your actions become your habits,
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values,
Keep your values positive because your values become your DESTINY
Never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow
Never play ‘leapfrog’with a unicorn
LIFE IS NOT A REHERSAL found that one after my 4 yr old died
Judi Baker wrote:
Treat others as you want to be treated
Where there is a WILL there there is a WAY………
‘In the light of all eternity……..does it really matter”……..then I get a sensible answer from my brain……….LOL!

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