You can't make an omlette with breaking eggs.

Nothing with meaning is easy.

Money won't make you happy.

But debt will make you miserable.

People who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of people doing it.

Chinese Proverb

Our rulers live in a different land.

Smile or die.

Someone much more clever and eloquent than me has realised that all this positive thinking is horseshit. If you're going to face your problems you have to be realistic about them. Ehrenreich goes even further. Positive thinking may even be the causes of your ongoing worries.

Read a book review here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/09/barbara-ehrenreich-smile-lucy-ellmann

It's cruel to be kind.