Geoff Ryman Quotes

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

My grandmother always would say, "This, too, shall pass." It is always true.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.