Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. ~Author Unknown


If the skies fall; one may hope to catch larks. ~Francis Rabelais


Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown


To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb


Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin


If you have the will to win; you have achieved half your success; if you don't; you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose


Every day may not be good; but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown


We all live under the same sky; but we don't all have the same horizon. ~Konrad Adenauer


The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart


He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson


What is possible?? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare; Guesses at Truth; by Two Brothers; 1827


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law


Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am; I am because of my mind. ~Paavo Nurmi


I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln


A positive attitude may not solve all your problems; but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright; quoted in Reader's Digest; June 1995


"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say; ""Well; here I am!"" and those who come in and say; ""Ah; there you are.""? ~Frederick L. Collins"


Oh; my friend; it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey


I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. ~Thornton Wilder


Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb


If you don't get everything you want; think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde


Could we change our attitude; we should not only see life differently; but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield


Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~Maori Proverb


Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort


It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~Author Unknown


For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson


We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~Author Unknown


The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place; but a state of mind. ~John Burroughs


Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith





I am a little deaf; a little blind; a little impotent; and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities; but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire


Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances; but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs


The world is full of cactus; but we don't have to sit on it. ~Will Foley


No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ~Ellen Glasgow


I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~Wernher von Braun


Anywhere you go liking everyone; everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown; Jr.; Life's Little Instruction Book


Positive anything is better than negative thinking. ~Elbert Hubbard


If we shall take the good we find; asking no questions; we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Blessed is he who expects nothing; for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter


Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples; don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer


We are all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde; Lady Windermere's Fan; 1893


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James


Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb


Heaven is under our feet; as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau


When you feel dog tired at night; it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown


"It's snowing still; said Eeyore gloomily. ""So it is.""? ""And freezing.""? ""Is it?""? ""Yes;"" said Eeyore. ""However;"" he said; brightening up a little; ""we haven't had an earthquake lately.""? ~A.A. Milne"


"The real ""it is well"" is something I say from the ground; having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia; Voces; 1943; translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin"


Misery is a communicable disease. ~Martha Graham


I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank; The Diary of a Young Girl


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb


There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer


People are not disturbed by things; but by the view they take of them. ~Epictetus


I think; what has this day brought me; and what have I given it?? ~Henry Moore


Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are; raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them; for they're always there. ~Norman Vincent Peale


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes; Jr.; Handbook to Higher Consciousness


"So often time it happens; we all live our life in chains; and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles; ""Already Gone"""


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it; change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit


Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark


Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. ~Edward de Bono; Observer; 12 June 1977


The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov; Surviving on Planet Reebok


It's so hard when I have to; and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier


Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas


We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned; so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell


The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. ~Henri Fr?d?ric Amiel


Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown





I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. ~Winston Churchill


You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. ~Carrie Latet


A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keyes; Jr.


There are no menial jobs; only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett; The Book of Virtues


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Frankenstein; 1818


I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill


This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn; my friend. ~Jareb Teague


Reach for the stars; even if you have to stand on a cactus. ~Susan Longacre


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm; you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi


Clouds come floating into my life; no longer to carry rain or usher storm; but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Toughness is in the soul and spirit; not in muscles. ~Alex Karras


Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus; Lyrical and Critical Essays


Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott


Let us rise up and be thankful; for if we didn't learn a lot today; at least we learned a little; and if we didn't learn a little; at least we didn't get sick; and if we got sick; at least we didn't die; so; let us all be thankful. ~Buddha


Henceforth I ask not good-fortune; I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman


Whenever you fall; pick something up. ~Oswald Avery





[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. ~Dwight Eisenhower; address to Republican National Committee; 31 January 1958; also sometimes attributed to Mark Twain (unverified)


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil; of pain; and hunger; and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith


I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying


"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ~G.K. Chesterton; ""On Running After One's Hat;"" All Things Considered; 1908"


"There's a saying among prospectors:? ""Go out looking for one thing; and that's all you'll ever find.""? ~Robert Flaherty"


"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson; ""Worship;"" The Conduct of Life; 1860"


If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper


Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude; not looks. Most men think it's looks; most women know otherwise. ~Kathleen Turner


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius


So our human life but dies down to its root; and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. ~Henry David Thoreau; Walden


If you don't think every day is a good day; just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert


Enjoy the little things; for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault


Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson


The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak; became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown


Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable; or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives; so best to remove the weeds of anger; avarice; envy and doubt... ~Dorothy Day


The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton


Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes


I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance; and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy


You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say; you do not like it; and then; you know; you're perfectly safe. ~James Whistler


A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost


There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~Frederick Faber


Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. ~Helen MacInness


I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet; I go. ~Pearl Bailey


Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering


Those who wish to sing; always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb


"Say ""Yes"" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say ""Yes"" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say ""Yes"" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. ~Brooks Atkinson; Once Around the Sun; 1951"


If you call a thing bad you do little; if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief; than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius


True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes; but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton


Surrounded by people who love life; you love it too; surrounded by people who don't; you don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Second Neurotic's Notebook; 1966


Is life so wretched?? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small; your vision which is muddled?? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold


Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion; just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark


The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire


I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln


Wherever you go; no matter what the weather; always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo; The College Blue Book


A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~William Arthur Ward


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time; and still retain the ability to function. One should; for example; be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions; but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton


I have found that if you love life; life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein


Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter