Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.
Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.
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