give me your best "it will be alright" quote or saying

It will be alright in the end - if it's not alright its not yet the end

• quoted in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Read a nice thing online the other day, something along the lines of, if something suddenly goes to shit, just yell "PLOT TWIST!" carry on

You can only do what's best for you. Said to me by an eda helpline worker 15 yrs ago

I'm sorry I'm late to the party - I just stumbled across this in classics.

I'm going through a bit of a shit time at the mo too. Other people have added my favourite quote, but I didn't see any harm in saying it again: "It's always darkest before the dawn." Think it's actually an old proverb, but I first heard it when Florence sang it!

I'm going to adopt some of the others myself. I love "chuck it in the fuck it bucket"!!! Particularly applies to work

Hope things are looking brighter for you, OP.

Lovely, lovely thread.

Weep You No More, Sad Fountains

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste.
But my sun's heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets:
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

John Dowland

Churchill:

"When you're going through hell- keep going".

Argh, typo.

But to be lonely...

Read this very many years ago in a book and keep a scrap of paper in my purse for those occasions where I either can't articulate or like the OP can't discuss.

But to the lonely
is not to be unloved,
but only to learn the value of love-
and that it takes many forms,
and is sometimes hard to recognise.

Hold Fast!

It seems to say it all in virtually any circumstance to me.

Failure isn't falling down. It's not getting back up again

Wonderful thread to read while unable to sleep. Inspired me to look at my list that I refer back to in difficult times. Some of my favourites, songs as well as quotes are:

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
? St. Francis of Assisi,

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
? Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
? Winston S. Churchill

It’s going to be alright. Maybe not today, but someday.

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
? Nicholas Sparks

It's all just people talking
Does it really matter what they say?
Whatever gets you through the day
That's your way

• Lighthouse Family

As time goes by reality
Destroys your hope and dignity
There's nothing left but shadows on the wall
But just remember who you are
And where you've been you've come so far
And never ever let them see you fall

• OMD

Hold up... hold on... don't be scared
You'll never change what's been and gone
Cos all of the stars are fading away
Just try not to worry you'll see them some day
-Oasis

Also love Desiderata and the poem posted by EasterSundaySimmons is beautiful.

Hope it will all be alright for you soon OP

Ok, worst thing said to me was: I don't know what to say. I'm so glad it's not me!. At least she was honest!

Sayings that make me feel (a bit) better: No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.... It's not what happens that is important but how you deal with it (Only makes me feel better in certain situations!)

Hope you are getting through ok LadyCC

From Shakespeare (Macbeth I think??): "Come what may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.."
Love to everyone.

Very true Kate! If there were snakes, I guess at least I wouldnt be being eaten by a tiger. (If I was being eaten by both snakes and a tiger, I feel the time for positive and inspirational quotes has passed and a bloody great big stick would be more useful)

It could be worse... There could be snakes in here with us...

(That does actually succeed in making me feel better about things, as, however bad it is, it would indeed be worse if there were poisonous sakes trying to eat me as well, so, in the absence of snakes, things suddenly feel a bit brighter)

Some of these are beautiful.

I used to repeat "just keep swimming" to myself over and over at 4am when I woke in tears after my husband left.

From King Lear; "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods".
My friend text me this from the side of the motorway recently to inform me he'd broken down. I thought it very pragmatic.

Yaaay thanks Amy MN then we can find it when we need a boost in resolve!

another thing I read once, which on reflection was true

"when things are coming apart, they are actually coming together"

have you tried mindfullness op?

might be worth finding out about x

Thanks OP for starting this. I too am in a bad place I can't talk about in RL much ( nothing like yours legal wise just can't) and this is just the thing for stiffening the resolve.

Hope you are Ok today

As an aside MNHQ Can we have a mascara warning in the title please??!

Bloody nest of vipers made me cry . Again.

One I've found very comforting recently is from the Dalai Lama

'Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace'