True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our...
I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever...
He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.
We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.