Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individua...
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.