Philosophical ideas to get through hard times

Change before you have to.
- Jack Welch.

Do one thing every day that scares you
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I love sleep you know. My life has a tendency to fall apart when l am awake.
- Ernest Hemingway

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Wayne Dyer

I went to the country - just the other day
To see my Uncle Bill and sorta pass the time away
I asked him how he'd been - since last, I'd passed his way
He rubbed his chin - here's what he had to say.

"My wife's been sick - the young'ns, too
And I'm durn near - down with the flu
The cow's gone dry - and them hens won't lay
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The hogs took the cholera and they've all done died
The bees got mad - and they left the hive
The weevils got the corn and the rain rotted the hay
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The porch rotted down - that's more expense
The durned old mule - he tore down the fence
The mortgage is due and - I can't pay
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The cow broke in the field and eat up the beans
The durn rabbits - they got the turnip greens
And my Ma-in-law just moved in to stay
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

My land's so poor - so hard and "yeller"
You have to set on a sack of fetilizer to raise an "umbreller"
And it rains out here - nearly ever' day
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
Up from the spring - about a mile and a quarter
My helper, he quit - for the lack of pay
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The house it leaks - it needs a new top
When it rains - it wets ever'thing we got
The chimney fell down - just yesterday
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The corn meals gone and the meat's run out
Got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
The preacher's comin' Sunday - to spend the day
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

The canned stuff's spoiled - else the jar's got broke
And all we got left is one old Billy goat
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
But - we're still a-livin' - so EVER'THING'S Okay.

My crop it rotted - in the ground
I asked for another loan but the banker turned me down
But - we're still a-livin' and we're prayin' for better days
So - after all, ever'thing's in purty good shape."

-- Hank Williams Sr

Mahatma Gandhi
"To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life.
Don't let it be clubbed into dark submission.
Be on the watch there are ways out.
There is light somewhere.
It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
Be on the watch.
The gods will offer you chances.
Know them.
Take them.
You can't beat death but you can beat death in life sometimes.
And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be.
Your life is your life.
Know it while you have it.
You are marvellous.
The gods wait to delight in you.

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it. King Shrewd (character, Robin Hobb)

It is not for our success that we will be remembered but rather how we kept going after repeated failure.
Nelson Mandela.

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

Oren Lyons

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them making a nest in your hair. Chinese proverb

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Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Dawn xx

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Preparedness by Edwin Markham

For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike.

Sterling words all above.

“Come, see the true flowers
of this pained world.”
― Basho

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” Benjamin Franklin

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it is less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, ..... Or you can accept that and try to put together something that is good.

Elizabeth Edwards. 1949-2010.

Take care. Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard.

Amen

A ship is safe in harbour but that is not what a ship is made of.
John Shedd

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Leonard Cohen

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. Mortica Addams.

Good night friends where ever you are.
Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.

Sometimes l can only groan and suffer and pour out my despair at the piano.
Frederic Chopin.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Sleep the sleep of the just. Anon.