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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Gardening is all about optimism.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.
If it be true that optimism compels the world forward,
and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to
propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
- Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit
and of God pronouncing His works good.
- Helen Keller
If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbook
and look for ideas you can apply today -
perhaps an innocent optimism about life -
perhaps a hobby you loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
He who angers you conquers you.
- Elizabeth Kenny
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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