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UNCOMMON WISDOM for UNCOMMON TIMES “Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats.” by Kathryn & Ross Petras with Illustrations by R. O. Blechman WORKMAN PUBLISHING • NEW YORK Contents Introduction Quotes About the Authors Copyright Introduction Worried about your 401(k)? Your mortgage? Your job? Join the club! Thinking the future looks a little uncertain? Come on in! Feeling as if the pressure cooker of life is getting ready to cook your goose? Here, we’ll make room for you . . . That’s the point: Whatever issues we’re staring down, we are not alone. Indeed, throughout history people have lived in what felt like (and often were) uncommon times. What you hold in your hand is a collection of the insight and wit that helped many of those who came before us—as well as a few of our living poets and scholars, singers and statesmen—make it to the other side of difficulty. This uncommon wisdom includes quotes from people who have been there, done that, and lived to tell the tale. People who have graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of perspective—and often a sense of humor. People who, like all of us, struggled to keep on keeping on . . . and usually did. As the writer Sherry Hochman once said, “Every day is a gift—even if it sucks.” Or, as our title suggests, courtesy of Voltaire, “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” Kathryn and Ross Petras New York City Acceptance Life is a crisis—so what! —MALCOLM BRADBURY Writer The Fine Art of Being Happy The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. —VICTOR HUGO Writer Never Give Up Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. —LEROY “SATCHEL” PAIGE Baseball player Money October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. —MARK TWAIN Writer True Grit He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he that loses his courage loses all. —MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Writer Perseverance It even helps stupid people to try hard. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Philosopher
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