What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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A falling knife has no handle.

I literally repeat this out loud anytime a knife falls and I think it's become my mental stopping mechanism to make sure I don't try to catch it.

I need a variant of this that stops me trying to catch them with my feet

Same! It's saved me many fingers!

Well, let's not exaggerate here. Surely it's saved you no more than ten of them.