Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
—Unknown
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
He who binds to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
—William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
—Robert Brault
Be as an cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
—Robert Fulghum (b.1937) American Unitarian Author, Essayist, Clergyman
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
—Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Indian Statesman, Nationalist Leader
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
—Dorothy Day (1897–1980) American Journalist, Christian Activist
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of hundreds of others, in seeing the hundreds of universes that each of them sees.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
—Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American Short Story Writer, Novelist
It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
—Indian Proverb
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.
—John C. Maxwell (b.1947) American Author, Speaker, Pastor
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
—Unknown
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Attitude determines altitude.
—Unknown
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
—Unknown
I’ve got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I’m blue.
—Unknown
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–73) Persian Muslim Mystic
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
—Kenneth Clark (1903–83) British Art Historian
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
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