An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. -- Bill Vaughan
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
-- Toni Cade Bambara
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
-- Stella Terrill Mann
If it doesn't work out in the end, it's not the end. -- Bill Purdin
There are as many solutions as there are human beings. -- George Tooker
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. -- Dr. Seuss
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. -- Victor Hugo
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
-- Nat Burton
An optimist is the human personification of spring. -- Susan J. Bissonette
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. -- Monica Baldwin
If you are not full of faithful optimism for the day to come, then you must have decided to ignor the most obvious evidence in all of history and science: things are getting better. -- Bill Purdin
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. -- Francois de Fen
People who make excuses cause all of the world's woes, or make them worse.
-- Bill Purdin
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt
those who are doing it
-- Anonymous
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. -- Henry Ford
We could never learn to be brave and patient if
there were only joy in the world.
-- Helen Keller
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Those who wish to sing always find a song. -- Swedish proverb
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber
In the depth of winter I finally learned there
was in me invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
Draw in the breath of life, and as you breathe, smile. -- Anonymous
However long the night, the dawn will break. -- African
Proverb
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. -- Swedish Proverb
Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you
something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. -- Unknown |