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

[LadyCybilCrawley]

got news today that I cant share with anyone - not my husband, not my children, not my staff, not my team mates, not my parents, not my best friends - it will have significant impact stuff - I cant talk about it and its made me fairly miserable - awfully miserable - I am red eyed and in a bad mood

so .... give it to me ... you best Annie impression of the Sun Coming Out Tomorrow, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, or some quote about there being a silver lining in every cloud

Go on, hit me with it, do you best, because today cant get much worse ... I think

I am finding so much comfort in all these. Thank you everyone.

My grandmothers favourite.
"It is only in darkness that we see the stars"

Bow your head and weather the storm
For after the night there is always morn

I don't know if you're into God but my mum always says

If God bring you to it
He will bring you through it

And what's that don't quit poem thingy?

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.

Yes, Easter, beautifully put.

And two incredibly beautiful poems!

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway

"If you're going through hell, keep going" - Churchill

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King

"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up." - Bruce Lee

Am still here , still awake , you guys are awesome - the sensible, the sensitive, the silly, the sincere - thank you all

... It's. 2 am .... Sleep must come soon ....

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…

I love SundaySimmons post....I was in tears reading.

OP I've come through some rough stuff over the last few years. I have a board of inspirational posts on Pinterest, for the times when my head (still) goes down- some of the ones above are on there.

I love the Ernest Hemingway one about being broken and that is where strength comes from.

But for me the most powerful practice is gratitude. I keep a daily journal now, where I write at least 3 things that I am grateful for each day- some days it's as small as the sunny breeze that dried the sheets; some days it's the joy of looking into my daughters faces as I cuddle them at night.

Gratitude in our darkest times is more than a matter of remembering our blessings so we can hold the hard stuff in a bigger perspective.
With understanding, we see that often it is the suffering itself that deepens us, maturing our perspective on life, making us more compassionate and wise than we would have been without it.

How many times have we been inspired by those who embody a wisdom that could only come from dealing with adversity? And how many valuable lessons have we ourselves learned because life has given us unwanted challenges? With a grateful heart, we’re not only willing to face our difficulties, we can realize while we’re going through them that they are a part of our ripening into wisdom and nobility. - James Baraz

The Buddhist teachings are fabulous at simply working with what’s happening as your path of awakening, rather than treating your life experiences as some kind of deviation from what is supposed to be happening.

The more difficulties you have, in fact, the greater opportunity there is to let them transform you. The difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth.

You have the choice to launch into the lousy habitual patterns you already have, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you, on the spot. - Pema Chodron

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melodie Beattie

One I use for myself is everyone's fed, no ones dead.

I love Sundays poems they are making me emotional. Remember that there is something in every day to be grateful for. In my life when catastrophes have happened and one door has closed, another has opened.

This too shall pass.

'just keep swimming, just keep swimming'

• Dory from Finding Nemo

Wallis Simpson had numerous peices of jewellery given
to her by Edward, the one that really moved me when I read about it was a bracelet of two entwined animals (leopards?) inscribed 'hold tight'.

It's all you can do xx

"Barn's burned down. Now I can see the moon".

And my dad's one for financial worries:
"We never starved of a winter yet".

Ha - I do like that - now I seen the moon - excellent

It's all about perspective isn't it !!

'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.

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" :)

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 :(

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.