happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!
If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.
I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.
Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.
Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.