Hey Pandas, What's One Thing You Tell Yourself That Keeps You Going? (Closed)

"Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the bad times. This too shall pass."

"Being creative (even if you don't think you're very good) is better than being destructive."

When you get home, your cat is waiting

"As long as you're writing better than Stephanie Meyer, you're doing well on your book."

When I was in the military and doing a long timed trek or such it was 'I'll just do another twenty paces'...and then another. When I had cancer it was 'I'll just do another day... and then another'..... since my daughter passed away that mantra still kinda worked 'just another day.. and then 'if i can do one, I can do two'.... but more and more since then I just have to remind myself that I've got some absolutely f*****g fantastic friends and family who have seen me through the lowest time in my life and continue to do so. I was alone in the house for 18 months during the first bit of covid and had to isolate due to being the vulnerable category because of my disabilities..and my fiance didn't live with me then... but every one of my friends humbled me so much with their help and support. Some days I'd get up and there'd just be like a note on the doorstep with a bit of shopping off one of them, or they'd organise a weekly zoom quiz to keep me socialised. They're absolute diamonds the lot of them and I tell myself I will not disappoint them.

Better me being hurt than my loved ones being sad because I am not here anymore.

no matter how you would like too ; the murder charges are just not worth it.

There are people doing far worse than you; don't give up, keep going.

My son would miss me.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards - Søren Kierkegaard

Better to suffer, than to let others suffer

“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.” ---- Small Gods, Sir Terry Pratchett. (Sub "human" or "person" for "man" if you prefer.)

Onward into the fog!

Sometimes it is all you can do :)

Nothing, good nor bad, will last forever. There will always be a next time, chance or moment.

OIYLI - Only if you let it

This is the message I taped to the bottom of my monitor at work when there were some very toxic attitudes being displayed by co-workers. I will not become that sort of person here. It will get you OIYLI.

Just do one thing at a time, and everything will be fine.

I don't need to monetize my hobby.

Your body won't let you die so.. just keep going until you do

Just keep swimming!

I know I've already added One, but here is another that I read on BoredPanda and it massively helped me through some stuff...

"A rubbish something is better than a perfect nothing..." (or doing something badly is better than achieving nothing at all)

Whoever I'm quoting, thank you for posting this to bored panda.