Could we change our attitude, we should not only
see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
Bill Meyer
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
Joe Clark
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest
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
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
Author Unknown
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Your heart is a sun -
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness...
Terri Guillemets
For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain,
it's how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain.
Joey Tolbert
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
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
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
The Eagles
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
Unknown
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?
Henry Moore
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Robert Brault
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Harry Truman
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
Unknown
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Nicholas Chamfort
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Oscar Wilde
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.
Walt Whitman
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
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
Oswald Avery
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.
Author Unknown
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
Where hope grows, miracles blossom.
Elna Rae
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Clark
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
William Arthur Ward
This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend.
Terri Guillemets
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.
Unknown
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.
Author Unknown
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 all have our limitations, but when we give in to our critics, we also have theirs.
Robert Brault
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
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
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.
Ronald Spark
Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.
Robert Brault
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
Mignon McLaughlin
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