It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
© Carl Jung
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
© Buddha
I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.
© Elizabeth Montagu
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
© John Adams
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
© Robert Orben
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
© Johannes Gaertner
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
© Harriet Lerner
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
© Bernard Shaw
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
© G.K. Chesterton
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
© Rumi
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
© Henry Longfellow
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can.
© Sydney Smith
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
© Epictetus
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
© Henri-Frederic Amiel
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.
© David Jordan
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
© Brian Tracy
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
© Abraham Lincoln
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
© Kahlil Gibran
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
© Richard Bach
Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.
© Confucius
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
© Niels Bohr
Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.
© Matt Zotti
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
© Laozi
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
© Antoine de Saint Exupery