10 Quotes for the End of a Difficult Day
Some days are better than others.
Our days often get away from us or get derailed by someone else's needs.
These ten quotes remind us that a difficult day is still only a day. We can let it end.
1. “Forever is composed of nows.”
—Emily Dickinson
One hard day can feel bigger than it is. It is part of your life, not the whole of it.
2. “Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
—William Shakespeare
Talk to someone or write it dow. You do not have to carry everything quietly.
3. “No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
—Zora Neale Hurston
A difficult hour can feel endless while you are in it. Let it hurt without deciding you will always feel this way.
4. “Rest is not idleness.”
—John Lubbock
Rest is not something you have to earn by finishing everything. You deserve rest simply because you are human.
5. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment rarely makes sense at the end of the day. Give it time before deciding nothing good can come from it.
6. “The best way out is always through.”
—Robert Frost
Take one honest next step, even if that step is going to bed.
7. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
—Maya Angelou
Today may have defeated a plan, project or way of thinking. It did not defeat you. You are still here.
8. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
—Helen Keller
Remember the times you and the people you love have found a way through.
9. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
—Anne Frank
Hope does not have to be large tonight. It may simply be trusting that morning can feel different.
10. “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow will have its own work. Do not make yourself carry it tonight.
At the end of a difficult day, the mind wants to replay what went wrong and find the moment we could have changed.
Some reflection may help. Tonight, it may be enough to admit the day was hard.
Put down what can wait. Drink some water. Turn off the noise. Let your body rest.
Today is over.
You are still here.
Tomorrow you get to begin again.