Chiwetel Ejiofor
English actor
To do the very best you can and then let it go.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That there are more important things than being right.
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Simon Boas
Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
All our tombs will be unvisited in a few years - all our actions will mostly be unremembered - but the smile you gave the checkout lady or the kind words you gave to a stranger in the street could still be rippling forward. We all have that opportunity and it's a huge power.
Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
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Wasting my life.
When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
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