“Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
“Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”
Pogo comic strip (1948 - 1975), Porky Pine
Variant: Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Source: Life of Pi
“Don't worry about anything. Just do what you can and be the best you can be.”
In response to David Winer http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/scripting-news-for-12212006/
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it. A thing is only worth doing, and doing again and again, if you can do it rather easily, and get some joy out of it.
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God. If you strain yourself too much you'll have to ask God to patch you up. And for all you know, patching you up may take time that it was planned to use some other way.
BUT... overstrain yourself now and then. For this reason: The things you create easily and joyously will not continue to come easily and joyously unless you yourself are getting bigger all the time. And when you overstrain yourself you are assisting in the creation of a new self — if you get what we mean.
“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74