Lifestyle

Quotes and Affirmations Our Community of Over 60s Live By

Jun 13, 2013

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

Karen O’Brien-Hall wrote:

“If it is to be, it is up to me”

Dianne Franks wrote:

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”

Sheryl Thompson wrote:

Nobodies perfect……. and I’m nobody

Bill Rennison wrote:

You will see it when you believe it.

Jean Marshall wrote:

ADAPT, AND OVERCOME!

Ronda Holland wrote:

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”

Bronwyn Wright wrote:

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

Richard Groves wrote:

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..

Falling Feather wrote:

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

Nancy Brenton wrote:

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