228 quotes found
“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 exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.”
“Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.”
“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.”
“Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.”
“Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment.”
“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.”
“If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.”
“I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.”
“A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
“Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God w...”
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”
“Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.”
