Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Courage in the final analysis is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
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.
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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