It’s an idiom in German too: “Was man nicht im Kopf hat, muss man in den Beinen haben.”
Pragmatism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Checking the work of another carpenter before I built off of it I took out my 4’ level. An older carpenter said “Don’t do that. You’ll only discourage yourself…”
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Muhammad Ali
“Too bad, suck it up and deal,” advice from my late Father. I certainly felt pretty pithy about it.