“Muddling along ... is the great secret to life... You take the good and the bad and cope as they happen" - Gallen in Intrigues”

“There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues”

“Bad things happen to good people and Good things happen to bad people..that's just how life is”. Yet...A Great person is the one that will overcome it all!”

“He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.”

“Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?”

“We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.”