FabSwingers.com forum: Quotes that changed you

By *asual777 OP Man
51 weeks ago

i travel all over

From the lounge

This too shall pass (I think it’s attributed to Rumi)

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By *leasurer77Man
51 weeks ago

Athlone

"Even now, at a set and 5-1 down in the last game of her career, the legend grows"

John McEnroe commentating on Serena Williams last match when she refused to quit one point earlier than she absolutely had to. Never ever give up!

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By *og-ManMan
51 weeks ago

somewhere

Do you take this woman to be your wife, to live together in (holy) matrimony, to love her, to honor her, to comfort her, and to keep her in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

The odds are good, but the goods are odd

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By *aseylee324Couple
51 weeks ago

Valley of Squinting Windows

"There's nothing so bad it couldn't be worse"

Perspective is everything

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By *electableicecreamMan
51 weeks ago

The West

Its better then a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

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By *ednuts101Man
51 weeks ago

North Dublin

It's far from your arse you won't sit on it

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By *ungry CatCouple
51 weeks ago

Belfast

"Don't argue with stupid people. They will bring you down to their level, then beat you with experience".

Missus

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By *s24fun...Couple
51 weeks ago

Trim

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from the playing the game

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By *risharrowMan
51 weeks ago

Clare,

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the mastering of it.

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By *ACOLCouple
51 weeks ago

limerick

"Its better then a slap on the belly with a wet fish."

Someone I was on the phone to ended my call with this saying today. Never heard it before, she was like, like the old Irish saying...

Very funny.

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By *ACOLCouple
51 weeks ago

limerick

""There's nothing so bad it couldn't be worse"

Perspective is everything

Love it! This is something we should all live by. Appreciate every living day.

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By *easingTimMan
51 weeks ago

Loughlinstown

If you want a guarantee (in life) Buy a toaster

- Clint Eastwood

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By *ursecretmischiefCouple
51 weeks ago

The West

I never stole a horse from someone I didn't like, if I didn't like'm, I just didn't bother with'em!

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By *otownkid1967Man
51 weeks ago

Portlaoise

What's meant for you, will never pass you by.

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By *igblueyamMan
51 weeks ago

Dundalk

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
51 weeks ago

City Centre

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything, anger, anxiety, or possessions, we cannot be free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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By *rRiosMan
51 weeks ago

dublin

I wouldn’t say changed me but it I liked it though it’s a touch poignant…

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses.

You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…

You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love”

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By *rRiosMan
51 weeks ago

dublin

And just to offset my last comment

“I used to suck my own dick as a kid. Oh my god! I stopped at one point though because it felt more like giving head instead of getting head”

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

It's alright to say things can only get better.

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By *eijaWoman
51 weeks ago

City Centre

Knowledge is power..

B x

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By *antas_number_one_elfWoman
51 weeks ago

dublin

It is what it is.

A lot of power comes in just accepting things and knowing eventually everything will pass, and is really just a stepping stone to something else.

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By *ural delightMan
51 weeks ago

Enniskillen

Don't offer anything your not willing to lose

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By *voidingboredomMan
51 weeks ago

around

"Absolutely nothing matters at all. The world is still just a speck of dust flying through the void and all of your hopes, dreams, fears, loves and indignities will not change that and will end in darkness. Now, what are you going to do today?"

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
51 weeks ago

Northside

After a life changing diagnosis a few years ago I came across an inspirational quote that still makes me well up when I think of it. " You don't know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have!" That really struck a chord and gave me the extra edge I needed at that time.

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

if you always do what you always did , youll always get what you always got

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By *rRiosMan
51 weeks ago

dublin

"It is what it is. "

I dislike this. I feel like it’s used all too often and all too soon as a cop out for not engaging in the topic/discussion. Or even worse, a way of absolving agency or not acknowledging accountability.

There is a time and a place for it of course but it is used in bad faith frequently.

Anyway, I’m real fun at parties too!

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By *reffni BlueMan
51 weeks ago

cavan

You can’t change the wind

But you can adjust the sails

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Comparison is the thief of joy.

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By *indenMan
51 weeks ago

Naas which is South West of Dublin

I cried and cried because I had no shoes, till I met a man who had no feet….

The happiest people in the world don’t have the best of things, they make the best of things….

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By *s LollyWoman
51 weeks ago

The pub then supermacs ...

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer

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By *voidingboredomMan
51 weeks ago

around

"There is no grace, there is no guilt. This is the law: do what thou wilt." (Taken in the context of not harming others being the only moral stricture necessary) - Aleister Crowley

"Have you ever heard of fabswingers?" - ex gf.

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By *ursecretmischiefCouple
51 weeks ago

The West

"It is what it is.

There is a time and a place for it of course but it is used in bad faith frequently.

Anyway, I’m real fun at parties too!

I get where you're coming from, and too often its a lazy cop-out.

But sometimes, things are out of your control and you just have to get on with it!...control the controlables!

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By *og-ManMan
51 weeks ago

somewhere

"I cried and cried because I had no shoes, till I met a man who had no feet….

The happiest people in the world don’t have the best of things, they make the best of things…."

Thats incredible....Ive never heard it before

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By *Hohan96Man
51 weeks ago

The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

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By *aid backMan
51 weeks ago

by a lake with my rod out

One of my dad's sayings was "never trust a man with a comb over, if he's going to lie to himself he'll lie to you too"

Note: my father was bald

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By *habMan
51 weeks ago

Boomtown

"Vous êtes votre seule limite"

You set your only limits

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Don't hate anything it affects your judgement

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By *electableicecreamMan
51 weeks ago

The West

Not my circus. Not my monkey.

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By *affa31Woman
51 weeks ago

Galway

Nobody gives a fuck about you.

Obviously your family and friends do but the people you meet out in the big bad world don’t so why do you care what they think.

Also, peoples opinions of you are none of your business.

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

3300 punts, third party, fire and theft!

Was never the same after that!

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

If you had bacon, you'd have bacon and eggs , if you had eggs .

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By *risharrowMan
51 weeks ago

Clare,

"3300 punts, third party, fire and theft!

Was never the same after that!"

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By *uddlyBear1972Man
51 weeks ago

Just inside the Pale

George Bernard Shaw is always good for a quote. One of my favourites is

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

If you always do what you always do, you’ll always get what you always get. Sometimes change is needed

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By *olyhumorousMan
51 weeks ago

Over here

'Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist'

Picasso

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Winners find a way losers find excuses...

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Bees Don’t waste their time Explaining to Flies why Honey is better than Shit

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By *ka ..Agent k ..Man
51 weeks ago

'just hold these two ducks ta I count them,

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By *adbobbilMan
51 weeks ago

Wicklow, Carlow, Wexford, Kilkenny

Just because you have an education doesn't make you intelligent.

An old school teacher used to always say this to us

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe:

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

March to the beat of your own drum

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change" and courage to change the things I can.

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By *indenMan
51 weeks ago

Naas which is South West of Dublin

Grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change" and courage to change the things I can.

And the wisdom to know the difference……

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change" and courage to change the things I can.

And the wisdom to know the difference……"

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By *aseylee324Couple
51 weeks ago

Valley of Squinting Windows

Another favourite of mine and a golden rule for the forum

"Never wrestle with a pig, you'll both end up covered in shit and the pig will enjoy it"

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes

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By *onderingpurposeMan
51 weeks ago

Belfast

"Life is the sum of your all your choices"

Camus

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By *ofusplusCouple
51 weeks ago

Limerick

Just Do It - Nike

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Not everyone is going to like you but not everyone matters

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

All the good can be taken out of something, until it's just a bra hanging on the washing line.

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By *oinNumberMan
51 weeks ago

Not in

I am who I am and will go on being who I am, until I can no longer be what I am!

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By *mmmm300Woman
51 weeks ago

cork

"What's meant for you, will never pass you by."

I agree with this and have reminded myself of it often

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

Found this helpful when marriage was ending;

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

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By *haggy30Man
51 weeks ago

Dublin

" We are the people our parents warn us about "

Was graffiti down the lanes when I was a kid

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By *ogday2181Man
51 weeks ago

Dublin

I'm pregnant

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By *amon.dMan
51 weeks ago

antrim

All good things come to those who....say f@@k it you only live once

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
51 weeks ago

City Centre

You will encounter some beautiful surfaces with ugly depths.

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By *anUTV/TS
51 weeks ago

Rural

Keep doing what's in front of you

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By *electableicecreamMan
51 weeks ago

The West

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.

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By *og-ManMan
51 weeks ago

somewhere

If you don't ask you'll never get it

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By *BelfastGuyMan
51 weeks ago

Belfast

Treat others as you would like them to treat you

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By *BelfastGuyMan
51 weeks ago

Belfast

Where you are is where you're meant to be.

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By *anUTV/TS
51 weeks ago

Rural

Fuck it

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

"You can't cure Stupid"

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By *astelloWoman
51 weeks ago

Far far away

Carpe diem

Sieze the day

Tog go bog e

Take it handy

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By *lueLotusWoman
51 weeks ago

the wilderness

Live and let live - my mum

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By *ohnFKMan
51 weeks ago

Where the Streets Have No Name

'If not us, who?

If not now, when?'

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By *ogladyWoman
51 weeks ago

The bog

It is what it is..

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By *heCatWhoGotTheCream2024Man
51 weeks ago

Funville

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today...

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By *electableicecreamMan
51 weeks ago

The West

Never put off until tomorrow what you can somebody else to do today.

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By *amsevenMan
51 weeks ago

cork

Fail to prepare

Prepare to fail

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By *oserMan
51 weeks ago

where the wild roses grow

Ah sure,,,

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By *orkman66Man
51 weeks ago

Portlaoise

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit

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By *lueLotusWoman
51 weeks ago

the wilderness

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit"

I thought I was on the masturbation thread there for a minute

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By *orkman66Man
51 weeks ago

Portlaoise

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit

I thought I was on the masturbation thread there for a minute

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By *electableicecreamMan
51 weeks ago

The West

Fake it till you make it.

This one probably helped me more than any other.

Well except for Dori

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By *haggy30Man
51 weeks ago

Dublin

"If not you then who?

If not now then when?"

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By *alvin.Man
51 weeks ago

Cork/Dublin

Quotes that changed you.

"say hello to your new baby daughter"

And then everything changed... x

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By *entlemuleMan
51 weeks ago

all over tipperary and the midlands

"Theres nothing broken that can't be fixed"

My father when I was 17 after wedging his car sideways in a ditch.

I've had the pleasure of repeating the quote to my own daughter.

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By *rialbyfire1235Man
51 weeks ago

South KK

Great things never came from comfort zones.

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By *ornywife20Couple
51 weeks ago

North Cork

My father told me

Do it right or fuck off and leave it alone

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By *ushin realityCouple
51 weeks ago

swords

Feel the Fear but do it anyway

Has worked for me so many times xx

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By *og-ManMan
51 weeks ago

somewhere

Two from an apprenticeship

Measure twice and cut once

Its easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission

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By *ominanTeeMan
51 weeks ago

Sligo

Such is life.....

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By *dfabMan
51 weeks ago

Dunboyne

My Dad's was always Look after yourself and the rest will look after itself.

His other favourite, when asked how he was, would be Ah sure I get no money for complaining.

I must look up the family history for any Jewish/ Scottish/Cavan ancestry

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By (user no longer on site)
51 weeks ago

If it’s important to you,then you’ll find a way. if not, you’ll find an excuse.

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By *dfabMan
51 weeks ago

Dunboyne

"If it’s important to you,then you’ll find a way. if not, you’ll find an excuse."

Love it

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By *easingTimMan
51 weeks ago

Loughlinstown

In life...

You won't get prizes for being busy

but you will get rewarded by being brave

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By *entlemuleMan
51 weeks ago

all over tipperary and the midlands

Two from an apprenticeship

Measure twice and cut once

Its easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission "

Another one from my apprenticeship.

Always think of the man that will be working on this after you. Because someday you will be that man.

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By (user no longer on site)
50 weeks ago

As my father always told me .." A shut mouth catches no flies"

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By *astelloWoman
50 weeks ago

Far far away

Seize the day

Life is too short for regrets

Here for a good time, not for a long time

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By *inkywife1981Couple
50 weeks ago

A town near you

Overtime, the only people who will remember the overtime you worked will be your children.

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By *urvyLouLouWoman
50 weeks ago

Dungannon/Belfast

"what is normal". x

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By *eebeedee100Couple
50 weeks ago

Limerick

You can do anything, but you can't do everything.

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By *rystalsswingCouple
50 weeks ago

Galway / Midlands / West

"You can do anything, but you can't do everything."

This!!

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By *eebeedee100Couple
50 weeks ago

Limerick

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By *eebeedee100Couple
50 weeks ago

Limerick

Two from an apprenticeship

Measure twice and cut once

Its easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission

Another one from my apprenticeship.

Always think of the man that will be working on this after you. Because someday you will be that man. "

So true, it's a pity that not all apprentices receive or heed this advice #foreverfixingfuckups

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By *ot so needyMan
50 weeks ago

Galway

It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than opening it and removing all the doubt.

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By *eehornyWoman
50 weeks ago

Mayo

Live laugh love

It changed me from being happy to wanting to vomit

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By *ittlekinks38Woman
50 weeks ago

outside belfast x

Don't let people live rent free in your head .. if you wouldn't let them live rent free in your house xx

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By *rystalsswingCouple
50 weeks ago

Galway / Midlands / West

"Live laugh love

It changed me from being happy to wanting to vomit

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By *rystalsswingCouple
50 weeks ago

Galway / Midlands / West

"Live laugh love

It changed me from being happy to wanting to vomit

This! And unfortunately that is the shite our kids are expected to do.

I resonate with alot of the great advice above.

But my mantra right now is control what you can. And let everything else go. What's for you, won't pass you

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By *ardcore 30Man
50 weeks ago

carlow

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By *ardcore 30Man
50 weeks ago

carlow

"Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer

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agree

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By *urganguyMan
50 weeks ago

around

I love you #£&+*, done it for me when said by my girlfriend.

Love her

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By *hatbiatchWoman
50 weeks ago

craigavon

"I love you #£&+*, done it for me when said by my girlfriend.

Love her"

She loves you too

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By *ohnny5300Man
50 weeks ago

castlebar

Try not to be a Cunt!

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By *ohnny5300Man
50 weeks ago

castlebar

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got."
definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

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By *ozzlesMan
49 weeks ago

galway

Done is better than perfect

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By *otjackandjillCouple
49 weeks ago

Dublin

“There’s nothing good that doesn’t have a bit of hair on it….”

My mother’s response when as kids one of us would complain about a bit of mold on their bread…. Takes on a whole new meaning nowadays

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By *DSGCouple
49 weeks ago

That place in

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans'?

John Lennon

Love this qoute, think it's very true

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By *sLittleRedRidingHoodWoman
49 weeks ago

Magical Forrest

What’s for you won’t pass you … or something like that

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

Let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

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By *panishRebelMan
49 weeks ago

Alicante Spain, and Cork City Ireland

Be yourself mistakes and all

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

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By (user no longer on site)
49 weeks ago

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than opening it and removing all the doubt."

on the contrary to this, he who asks a question may seem like a fool , he who doesn't ask a question will remain a fool

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By *iseekingbiCouple
49 weeks ago

N ireland and West Midlands

Hey, careful man, there's a beverage here.

Don't mess with my Creedence man.

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By *ea ShellsWoman
49 weeks ago

Sligo

If you don’t have to make a decision at this time, it’s imperative that you don’t.

Some great sayings in this thread. Thoroughly enjoyed reading them

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