True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. – Charles Caleb Colton
Try to look on the bright side of things; if the bright side is not immediately evident, keep looking. It is better to be busy than depressed. – Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. – Joe Brown
The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. – Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude. – Dennis S. Brown
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. – Stephen Covey
If you have nothing to be grateful for check your pulse. – Author Unknown
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. – English Proverb
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. – William Ellery Channing, 1838
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body — the wishbone. – Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. – Patricia Neal
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
What is possible? What you will. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. – Katherine Mansfield
