Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.
Tears mess up your makeup.
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.