Lots of people I correspond with in email sign off with inspirational signature quotes. Some are interesting, some are funny, some are lecturing, they usually tell you a lot about the person you are corresponding with.
Online are a plethora of websites that offer you sentences that are what smart, witty, famous or intelligent people once said and there is no shortage of followers who eagerly try to identify themselves with those personalities.
Whether you like Buddha, Shaw, Charlie Chaplin or Margaret Thatcher as guiding lights, you certainly will find a sentence that you can wholly identify with.
So you have decided that you totally, 100% LOVE other people to know that "“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Elliot. Your email partners should all know that your are an adventurer, that you are not accepting common boundaries, that you will go beyond...
Or you find that "If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can’t speak English. Homer Simpson, meaning you are either politically incorrect or stand up for Hispanic rights
Or you ask everybody to "remember to laugh today", showing that you want everybody to understand that they should loosen up and not take life too seriously all the time, which will backfire when they feel nauseous reading it 5 times a day.
There are plenty of these, for all occasions, for all characters, all kind of messages one might want to convey.
They also have one thing in common, they grow old very fast.
If you are in intense email contact with a person for instance during negotiations for a transaction, believe me by the time you are reading for the 15th time "He who can give thanks for little will always find he has enough.", you will have enough already.
Please, if you want to tell the world and your email contact which conviction you have, what your general mood is, what your life's insights are, do this once, privately and in a personal conversation.
Do not shove it down the throat of your unassuming partners in email, it gets very annoying and at the end achieves the opposite of what you intended - appreciation for your thoughts and convictions.
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