Midlife in Gretna Green Quotes

“Don’t allow your brain to get old. You can’t do anything about the body–that will do what it wants–but you can keep your mind sharp.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Remember that guy who said, 'If you don’t like where you are, change it—you’re not a tree'?”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Off with their heads’ is sometimes the perfect solution. Use this opportunity to build a life that brings you joy. Remove from your life things that no longer serve your happiness. Dispose of old clothes, stale bread, dead flowers and most especially judgemental people – they’re not helping you to grow or glow.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Remove from your life things that no longer serve your happiness.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“What did that meme say? Deal with the idiot in front of you, or the universe will send you the same idiot but magnified next time?”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Just like all my questions, problems needed to take a number and wait patiently.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“I raised my head and glared at her. “Did you speak, or am I crazy?” “Well, of course I did, and you may be crazy. I couldn’t possibly comment. Some of the best people are, you know.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Deal with the idiot in front of you, or the universe will send you the same idiot but magnified next time?”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“Richard of York Gained Battles In Vain. It’s a rainbow!”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“This might be my life now, and other people had controlled me for far too long. I didn’t want his slow guidance. I wanted fast information and training.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“We're all manipulated by the people we love.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“reminded me of a time when I’d settled down to read a book, and thirty confusing pages into it, I realised I was reading the fifth in a series of fourteen books.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“I read Let’s hear it for Pope Clement VIII, took a long sip, read it again and finally thought about turning the mug around. In the 16th Century, he baptised coffee, turning it from the devil’s drink into one fit for a God (or a Pope).”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green