I need a quote to make me feel better

[jobsforall]

terrible times

[wolf63]

Sh1t happens

Just about covers everything.

[Vicasso]

Remembered from school and just found it again, 50 years on.

Arthur Hugh Clough. 1819–1861

Say not the Struggle Naught availeth

SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 5
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain, 10
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! 15
But westward, look, the land is bright!

[HowardKennitby]

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

[MarkRae]

Never hit your grandma with a shovel
It makes a bad impression on her mind

[webbo3]

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Dave.

[Suetheramble]

Its would be boring to be happy all the time

[marval]

A bird sitting on the ground won't crap on your head.

[sinderella]

There is a time when you believe everything is finished.that will be the beginning.

[Marijn]

Perhaps the Hokey-Cokey IS what it's all about!

[AliceTickband]

remember that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

[maggiebee]

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

[nungate]

When life hands you lemons, get some tequila and salt

[maggiebee]

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

[Canary42]

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

[mike11111]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

[rockyracoon]

Bugger, Mike, I was just going to post that one.

[mike11111]

I'm glad you put the comma between Bugger and Mike, else someone might have been prepared to accept the challenge!