What phrase gets you through trying times?

23 comments

"fuck"
- End of thread, we have a winner
  
  ha, I know it's crude or the "wrong answer" - but it's also what's probably most true for me 😆
Oh I love that question!
What if it all works out? ✨
This one is so helpful for me, especially when things get really tough. Then it’s easy to see all the negatives, but this phrase shifts my perspective and lets me think of a more positive future 🌟
- That's a really nice one, it changes how you think which is great
"Well, shit."
Alternately, Tolkien quote:
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- Same honestly.
  Also, I loved the meme that went around when this gained popularity during covid where Gandalf's reply was "LMAO well it has" 🤣
- That's an excellent meme
- Or, in its original formulation: "این نیز بگذرد" (īn nīz bogzarad).
  This is a very ancient piece of calming wisdom.
"Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end". Yes I know this doesn't make much sense when you think about it, but it works. Because it virtually always works out OK in the end.
- omgg that's the exact saying my mom always says and it's so true! very cheesy but has really helped me when I've felt I've hit rock bottom!
Lemmy answers itself
OK, so now that I've had the chance to dig in my books, this one stands out from Zhuangzi:
To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.
I quite like the one from the dysfunctional horse show: "It gets easier - but you gotta do it every day - that's the hard part" :))
They'll be dead in the blink of a geological eye.
- But I blink a bit faster than that 😭
Embrace the impermanence.
Do I really want to add to the aggression in the world?
Someday, [X] will happen for the last time.
- They're good! I really like the final one I'll use that myself
“Wanna be sexed up abusive lesbians” I love Class of ‘09 lol
These things happen.
People lived fulfilling lives during the fall of Rome.
It is what it is
The best you can do is the best you can do, and people ask for your input because they don't know either.

23 comments