Daily Inspiration Quote by Brigham Young

Trouble, Brigham Young implies, is not an exception to the human story but its operating system. The line lands with the hard practicality of a leader who spent his life managing scarcity, conflict, and the logistics of survival. In the 19th-century world Young helped shape - religious persecution, forced migration, the punishing work of settlement - “forget” isn’t airy self-help. It’s governance. A community can’t keep moving if it’s stuck rehearsing yesterday’s losses.

The subtext is bracing: don’t expect closure. The promise offered here is not that pain will end, but that attention is a resource you can ration. By framing troubles as interchangeable (“always new ones”), Young flattens the hierarchy of crises. That’s psychologically useful in a frontier context where dwelling can become paralysis, but it also nudges followers toward discipline: you may not control what happens, but you can control what you feed with your mind.

There’s a strategic emotional economy at work. “Wise” turns coping into virtue, almost a moral duty, which is exactly how leaders convert private endurance into public stability. It’s also a subtle inoculation against disillusionment. If new troubles are guaranteed, then disappointment stops being a sign of failure and becomes proof you’re living in the real world.

The rhetoric is spare, almost stoic, and that’s why it sticks: it offers no romance, only a method. Forget enough to function; expect enough to endure.