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

I know EXACTLY how you feel because the exact same thing happened to me this week - I ended up calling the Samaritans last night...

It'll be all the same in 100 years.

As said by wry former colleague when we were stressing about small things. Something tells me this isn't a small thing. Have some

Another one here who would say please read Desiderata, it's very calming.
Also, from my lovely brother, when I was fretting - 'Nothing is insurmountable'

I like fuzzpigs contribution:)

Keep buggering on is one I use to myself, and you're a long time dead ( cheery)

Apart from that, someone once told me it would be very unlikely what is bothering me today will be remembered in a couple of months.

And also, don't stress about what you can't change. Change what you can instead. And don't stress about being stressed

I tell myself very firmly and seriously, in true O'Hara spirit 'I'll think about it tomorrow'.
I also take a piece of paper and write in two columns: what I feel and what I think. Try to separate the two as much as I can.
Hope you're ok.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

It must be truly horrible to have something really worrying and not be able to share it with anyone. But you can share it with yourself cant you? thats not breaking any confidences surely?
Letter to future you will let you write it all down in minute detail - all the feelings and fears .And in a years time you will read it and see just how far you have come from this moment.

Chin up.

I can do anything through God that strengthens me

It's been a mantra since I was about 10 years old - and I can't remember where it's came from - school, church youth club or my mum, but even now at 38 and with my faith being a bit more wobbly these days I still find it comforting.

I also tend to resort to my Gideons Bible when the going is really tough - it lists lots of 'problems' at the front cross referenced with verses that might comfort/inspire.

Obviously feel free to ignore if you're not religious.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain

There's always tomorrow if today's not so good
The day can seem much brighter with with a changed attitude
Hope offers scope from which all things can follow
So just try to remember - there's always tomorrow...

sorry, that's massive.

I also love Bear Hunt - "We can't go over it, we can't go under it, we've got to go through it".

At times like these I love a bit of Florence;

Regrets collect like old friends
Here to relive your darkest moments
I can see no way, I can see no way
And all of the ghouls come out to play

And every demon wants his pound of flesh
But I like to keep some things to myself
I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn

And I've been a fool and I've been blind
I can never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around

Our love is pastured, such a mournful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground
So I like to keep my issues drawn
But it's always darkest before the dawn

And I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart
'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn

And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back
And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone
It's always darkest before the dawn

And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat
'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Looking for heaven, found the devil in me
Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me, yeah

" Do not fear the darkness, it is gentler than you think" - Ben Okri

Oh, and one more, for evenings like the one I have just given the FUCK up on:

"When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear." - Mark Twain.

(There's a H. L. Mencken one about hoisting the black flag and slitting throats. Also occasionally apposite.)

If it wasn't for the storms there wouldn't be any good sailors.

IamnotAngela who is that lovely poem by? Hope you are asleep now OP.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

I definitely have winced and cried aloud, but reading this always gives me a little courage that it will get better, eventually.

My personal one is "Its something unpredictable, but in the end its right" - not always appropriate, but I have found it worth keeping in mind in tough times.

take care OP xx

Albus Dumbledore — 'Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.'

Sometimes you tread in shit, you just have to scrape it off and carry on walking pretending it never happened.

I hope things get better soon, because they will.

God sake wring thread sorry seeing as im here I always think tomorrrow is a new day

Dont get me wrong I would like grandchilren be nice but I wouldn't be sad if I didnt get any

Sometimes things don't go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss, sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.

Only problem with all the "nobody died" ones is they aren't very appropriate if you've been or are likely to be bereaved.

I really don't like seeing them used as condolence of "You're having a terrible day and feeling like a shit parent but it's okay". I agree it's fine to have a crap day and the children won't be harmed but I'm uncomfortable with using sayings which say "nobody died" because I have friends who have lost children.

Sorry to be a downer on the thread :(

Oh the Dory one is lovely. When DH and I were first going out I was feeling a bit down about something and he didn't know what to say so he just nudged me and sang "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming" :)

'This too shall pass' and 'people will hate you, rate you, break you and shake you. But how strong you stand is what makes you'

So sorry you're having a shit day.