Success Quote by Arnold H. Glasow

Glasow’s line reads like a pocket-sized cash-flow forecast for the soul: the bad quarter ends. Coming from a businessman, it’s less mystical reassurance than practical risk management. “Nothing lasts forever” is the cold premise of markets and empires; the dash flips it into comfort by applying that same impermanence to pain. The trick is that he doesn’t argue you out of despair with inspiration. He undercuts it with time.

The intent is bluntly stabilizing. Troubles feel permanent because they colonize attention; Glasow’s sentence shrinks them back to scale. There’s an implied rebuke to catastrophizing: if you’re treating your current crisis like a life sentence, you’re misreading the terms. The subtext isn’t “cheer up,” it’s “recalibrate.” Endurance becomes rational, not heroic. If troubles are temporary, the smart move is to stay solvent - emotionally, financially, socially - until the conditions change.

It also smuggles in a subtle ethic of patience without passivity. “Not even your troubles” suggests your problems aren’t special enough to defeat the basic rule of entropy. That’s oddly empowering: your misery doesn’t get to be exceptional. The line’s effectiveness comes from its symmetry and its small sting. By putting troubles in the same category as everything else that decays, Glasow offers comfort that doesn’t require believing in fate, justice, or personal destiny. Just time doing what time does.