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God comforts us, not by changing the circumstances of our lives, but by changing our attitude towards them. ... S H B Masterman
Every obstacle is a stepping stone to your success.
In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning.
I can complain because rosebushes have thorns ... or rejoice because the thornbush has a rose.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain
To fling open our arms to embrace the whole world is to exult in the awareness that our days are not for passing through but for living in.
Write on your hearts that every day is the best day of the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The heart has its own memory, like the mind, and in it are enshrined the precious keepsakes into which is wrought the giver's loving thought. Longfellow
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity — love. And the story of a love is not important — what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ... Henry Drummond
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb
When we pause to watch the golden sun fall asleep in the dusk, we inherit some of its serenity.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it. ... The cat that sits down on a hot stove lid will never sit down on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
You can destroy your now by worrying about your tomorrow. Janis Joplin
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed
social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — THIS IS TO HAVE SUCCEEDED. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot’s at the other end.
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