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Hey Pandas, What Phrase Or Mantra Helps You Get Through Life’s Toughest Moments? (Closed)
It could be a quote from a movie or book, or maybe something personal you came up with. Share what keeps you going!
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#1
It's okay to fail at something. Because F-A-I-L stands for First Attempt In Learning.
Final score:
9points
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#2
Please give me the courage to change what I cannot accept, the fortitude to accept what I cannot change - and the wisdom to know the difference.
Final score:
7points
#3
I just sing dammit to he11 over and over and remind myself that what's going on right now will not last forever. Nothing ever does.
Final score:
6points
#4
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming....
Final score:
5points
Surly Scot 10 months ago
One of the greatest pieces of mental health advice Disney has ever produced.
#5
This too shall pass.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
Final score:
5points
#6
"Look at the donut and not the hole..." Teaches me not to focus on what's not there, or what's negative, but to take in the big picture. Thank you, David Lynch.
Final score:
5points
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I only eat doughnuts with jam and no hole. Everyone bleeds the same colour! (*unless you're Vulcan or Romulan)
#7
It will pass…it might pass like a kidney stone…but it will pass.
Final score:
5points
#8
"You're all gonna die. Only question is how you check out. You want it on your feet, or on your knees, begging? I ain't much for begging. Nobody ever gave me nothin" - lights a fire in my belly every single day. (source: Alien 3. Go ahead and laugh.)
Final score:
4points
Reginald 10 months ago (edited)
“Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take OUR FREEDOM!!
#9
"With enough hate, everything is possible." By Malus Darkblade
Meaning everything is possible if you put in enough effort.
Final score:
4points
#10
“If women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy”.
“When the going gets tough, switch to power tools”.
“If life gives you lemons, throw them in a quart of vodka”.
“If it ain’t broke, you’re not trying”.
“If you can’t fix it, there’s always duct tape”.
“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess”.
“Keep your stick on the ice”.
“Remember, we’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you”.
Final score:
4points
#12
Amor Fati; love your fate.
Final score:
2points
Surly Scot 10 months ago (edited)
Did some googling and this one has a very far reach with a lot of people in history. Fascinating. Thank you for the education!
#13
Mine is “this too shall pass…”, and it helps me because I know with my experience in LIFE that it is possible to go through the pain and come out on the other side again.
Final score:
2points
#15
You can only do your best, with what you have to work with.
Final score:
2points
#16
When I have a hard day I say the words of Kid Rock: Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie.
Final score:
2points
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I said a hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie To the hip, hip-hop and you don't stop the rockin' To the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
#17
Stop thinking. [because it always goes to something negative]. Obviously, thinking "stop thinking" is thinking. But that's harmless. So keep saying it to yourself. "stop thinking stop thinkingstop thinkingstop thinkingstop thinkingstop thinking"
Final score:
2points
#18
What has helped me a lot in times of doubt and hardship is the poem Invictus by W. E. Henley.
I make a first and quietly recite it by myself.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole.
I thank whatever gods may be.
For my unconcquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears,
Looms but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years,
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul.
Final score:
2points
#19
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em.
Final score:
2points
#20
For the longest time I've gone by my self-made mantra "Keep on keepin' on". No matter what happens to you, you've got to move on at some point.
Final score:
2points
#21
As silly as it sounds, sometimes when I know I'm heading into a hard day or situation, I just square my shoulders and think: chin up.
Final score:
2points
#22
"Plan for the worst, hope for the best..." When it comes to things we don't want to do.
"Be like a duck and let it roll off your back" for letting things go. I tell this to my son a lot.
Final score:
2points
Lost Panda (Submission author) 10 months ago
Ah, also "Right foot, left foot, march" when I need to tell myself to keep going (physically or mentally)
#23
"What can't be changed has to be endured", quote from the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan.
Final score:
1point
#24
"I'm alive" is a phrase I repeat a lot.
Also helps to try and sing a very long album/remember movie soundtracks to take my mind off things
Final score:
1point
Surly Scot 10 months ago
I'll sing along to Sia's "I'm Alive" because it really gets you yelling, seems to up the energy level on dealing with all the bulls*it. Long playlist videos on youtube for distraction.
#25
"The force is with me, and I am with the force and I fear nothing for all is as the force wills it"
Final score:
1point
Surly Scot 10 months ago (edited)
Another movie quote! Who says we're wasting our brains watching tv? It's astounding what you can learn from these black screens. We owe a lot to all the screenwriters out there drafting up nuggets of wisdom.
#26
I'm grateful to be living in such splendidly disturbing times- Helen Keller
Final score:
1point
#27
Hubby and I say this to each other all the time....."It's never as bad as we think it is."
Final score:
1point
#28
Just keep moving, just keep breathing.
If you hate your life, clean your house. if you hate your self, take a shower, if you hate everything, take a walk or a nap. Learned this one here.
Jesus was a rebel, so im OK too. My grandma told me this.
Final score:
1point
#29
Whatever is meant to happen will happen... I have had wayyyyy too many coincidental things occur that I believe everything happens for a reason!
Final score:
1point
#30
It's a long walk back to Eden, so don't sweat the small stuff - Stephen King's Insomnia
Final score:
1point
#31
You can't control how people act. You can control how you react to people.
Final score:
1point
#32
I used to visualize a football-player in full gear, head´s down and pushing through the lines
Final score:
1point
#33
"I can do all things through him who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13
Final score:
0points
Toggaph de Dratersi 10 months ago
Predictably the atheists of the board had to downvote this. So much for tolerance...
#35
Keep Calm and Carry On.
Final score:
0points
Surly Scot 10 months ago
I swear, this and tea are the whole foundation of the British people.
#36
"We can't let woke liberal snowflakes ruin our society."
Final score:
-3points
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