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

"It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead".

Just remember to keep the candle lit while you're cursing.

'Sometimes' is by Sheenagh Pugh, with apologies for anticipating a pp. apparently the author doesn't like it much but so many people have told her how much it has helped them ... It often helps me.

The Quakers who educated me will say they are 'holding you in the light', and from the original Quaker George Fox:

"I saw an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness." - George Fox

I have had the above in mind a lot recently as a good friends son is in the midst of treatment for a life threatening illness.

Hold my hand and we're halfway there
Hold my hand and I'll take you there.

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Live your life and take chances, be crazy and don't wait. Right now is the oldest you have ever been, and the youngest you will ever be.

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It's all a dream and illusion now, it must come true, sometime, soon, somehow.

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I've never been gone, I've been right here by your side.

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Is there anyone, on this earth, who is glad you have lived?

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Everything, will be alright, tonight.

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"There's nothing in this life worth worrying yourself to death over"

Said by my late grandad and works for me.

Sorry, haven't read every post so hopefully I'm not repeating someone.

There's a little prayer in one of my favourite books that goes:

Courage for the big troubles
Patience for the small.
Be of good cheer. God is awake.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It's a bad day/week/ year not a bad life

"enjoy yourself, it's later than you think"

this is so lovely (and particularly pertinent to me as I languish on the sofa, laid up with a bad back). COuldn't leave without posting my favourite - it's actually from Uncle Tom's Cabin, but i came across it in Little Women. Here's the quote, after a sermon from sermonising old Marmee:

"We needed that lesson, and we won't forget it. If we do so, you just say to us, as old Chloe did in Uncle Tom, 'Tink ob yer marcies, chillen!' 'Tink ob yer marcies!'" added Jo"

Whenever I'm feeling gloomy, I try to "think of my mercies". Invariably cheers me up

Calm seas do not a skilled sailor make

As my dad would say, it will all come right. It sounds better when he says it, in Yiddish, with a warm wise smile and complete certainty. He's never been wrong.
It will all come right.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

My DM is a huge sci-fi fan, and she told me when I'm having a wibble to think of the litany against fear from Dune.

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing....only I will remain"

My dear late Granny used to tell me

"You can't have any peaks without the troughs".

And of course, "tomorrow is another day".

ok , mine is

we cannot direct the wind , but we can adjust our sail

hope you are ok OP x

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

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

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.

Hey all
Still here
When things get rocky I lock myself in the bathroom and re-read all these wonderful posts
As in all things, perspective is a great thing

have you tried mindfullness op?

might be worth finding out about x

another thing I read once, which on reflection was true

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

Hi everyone,

We think this thread is absolutely lovely so we've moved it to classics.

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

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.

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)