Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Everyone will be taxed according to his means.
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
Experience shows that exceptions are as true as rules.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make their lives more livable.
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.
The incurable ills are the imaginary ills
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
What one has to do usually can be done.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
