Douglas Adams Quotes

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

You can't. You just have to.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, it’s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, you’ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, you’ll find a way.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.