Having a Mantra.

This too will pass. It can be used for good or bad. If good, make the most of happy times: if bad, it won't last forever. Allegedly used by Robert the Bruce.

I like that one tooGrandmabatty

I too use this too will pass
And unless the most awful has happened when people get in a tizzy about nothing, I say: did anyone die and as we know 99.9% of the time, no one did,
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My mum's were: 'They can't say worse than I can do' and 'It's better to be a has-been than a never-was'. I find each of them useful quite often.

My grandma used to say
"Stick to your stall even if you don't sell any fish."
My mum and i did not heed it different lives wanting change.

Mine has always been "onward and upward.".
And i do believe in less haste more speed for them days where you feel overwhelmed.

My Grandad always quoted the Yorkshire Man's Motto

See all, hear all say nowt.
Sup all, eat all, pay nowt.
And if tha ever does out for nowt alus do it for theesen!

I don't know why he quoted it because he was the exact opposite a generous provider for his family, generous at the bar with his friends and anything he coukd do for anyone he would. I think he thought it made him sound a lad bless him.

'This too shall pass' is very useful but I always found 'Just do it' ideal.

Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end!

I like “this too will pass” it is true and covers any situation. I also like my OHs favourite “failing to prepare is preparing to fail”. he’s very organised……

"There's no point in worrying" - that was Mr Scribbles' mantra and, mostly, he was right but as I'm a born worry-guts it did earn him some exasperated looks from time to time.

My dad had two: minor disasters were greeted with, "worse things happen at sea" (he was a former merchant seaman) and ongoing worries/disappointment with, "Never mind. It'll all be the same in a hundred years."

If you have nothing good to say then say nothing. My grandma's advice.

One I often mutter to myself "tomorrows another day", and the other "a stitch in time saves nine".

'It'll all come out in the wash!'

Didn't we have a very similar thread very recently?

Don't rain on my parade!

I like that one AGAA4, I must remember it.

I've adopted Captain Tom's mantra and have it on a sticky note in my kitchen:

"Tomorrow will be a good day."