754 quotes found
“God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.”
“After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.”
“A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.”
“Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.”
“When people asked I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick the worse I got. Finally I started saying "I'm getting better." It took a while but then I started to feel b...”
“You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.”
“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.”
“You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.”
“Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.”
“You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.”
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as affectively as by bombs.”
“The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
“There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosp...”
“If any has a stone to throw It is not I ever or now.”
“If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.”
“Think of only three things: your God your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.”
“Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.”
“A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.”
“Great things are not something accidental but must certainly be willed.”
