Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
There is no wealth but life.
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.