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I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.
Sep 24, 2025
When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.
If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.
I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.
My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.
I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party.
If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.
A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation.
If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
If you have a lemon; make lemonade.
No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
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