Favourite quotes!

Cool that this is still going.

Hope you've all been good. I was away for a while, had gallstones and infection so been recovering since surgery.

Peace all.

"Raaaaarrggh" 

- Chewbacca

"Look at the fingers of your hands if you want to know how things that are different can be the same."
- Mikhail Naimy

I always jokingly put the Chewbacca one when asked, but the second stuck with me on first reading it (cassette inlay for Tyger by Tangerine Dream). I fancied someone at the time, who rejected me on asking her out. She said we were too different. 

It's ok I had the best mum ️

I am sorry your father wasn't a great dad. 

That's lovely. My father sadly was not, I'm envious of you a little. (In a nice way). :) 

The following is apt for me because it perfectly sums up my feelings about my late dad. 

"My father was my teacher, but most importantly he was a great dad." (Beau Bridges)

Einstein "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

I struggle with that as well. After my last suicide attempt I vowed to go looking for the happy things rather than wait for them to come to me. Keep your chin up mate, better times lie ahead 

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

One I’m struggling with at the moment.

Its impossible to start the next chapter of your life  if you just keep re-reading the last one.

You haven't lived until you watch Doctor Who

Hoggle : Yes, should you need us, for any reason at all... Sarah : I need you, Hoggle. Hoggle : You do? Sarah : [nods] I don't know why, but every now and again in my life - for no reason at all - I need you.

From Labyrinth 

Thst theme about letting go of childhood but, importantly, leaving the door on it just a little ajar - for escapism, retained imagination, a sense of wonder, an antidote to the rigidity of total pragmatic cynicism- it’s very moving. And beautifully delivered. 

Shardovan said:

I think it gets to the autistic heart in a very specific way. 

It really does

It is something I will keep in my heart for sure 

Quality.

One of my favourite ever characters 

Incidentally, said thug is John ‘Boycie’ Challis from Only Fools and Horses, but before all that. And playing it 100% straight. Which makes the whole thing comedy perfection. 

I hang on to that one on my very worst days! With extreme difficulty 

I’m glad it’s helped you. It’s powerful for sure. And yes, I think it gets to the autistic heart in a very specific way. 

I just had a look on I player and all the post 2005 ones are on there. Not the older ones though it seems

Sorry, I keep re-reading your last post and that quote about being kind. It has hit me more than I have words to say, I actually feel tearful reading it but in a good way. 

"All that pain and misery and lonliness and it only made it kind" Wow, I will treasure that. I almost feel like that is our experience in a way. the rejection and lonliness we go through as autistics in life can actually make us more kind if we open our hearts and let it

I love that idea of being "impossibly kind" too, that is a good motto to live by 

You can start any time! I envy you getting see them afresh if you ever do choose to. It can be very funny too.

From a Tom Baker episode:

[thug holding a gun] ‘Alright, start talking Doctor.’ 
[Doctor:] ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had perfect pitch…’

Another quote I forgot to mention is from the Prince of Egypt

"When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around"

I really like that, it speaks to finding happiness and sharing it with others without having much in the way of material things 

Im beginning to think I have missed out a lot by never watching Doctor Who