Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Hellen Keller)
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. (Samuel Johnson)
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. (Woody Allen)
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are. (Napolean Hill)
Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse) (French Proverb)
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. (Epictetus)
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. (George Herbert)
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel. (Assyrian Proverb)
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. (Socrates)
You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life. (Hannah Nixon)
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors. (Tom Thompson)
...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. (Thomas Jefferson)
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. (Conan Doyle)
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound. (Hellen Keller)
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. (Robert Burns)
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. (W. Clement Stone)