Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart. – Geri Larkin
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. – Francis Rabelais
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai Stevenson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs
One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate. – Danish Proverb
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson
The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
All that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. – Paul Walker
Nothing so absurd as to sit down and wring your hands because all the good which may happen to you in twenty years has not taken place at this precise moment. – Sydney Smith, “A Little Moral Advice: A Fragment on the Cultivation and Improvem
A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better. – R.A. Campbell, quoted in Journal of Education, vol. 81, Boston University, 1915
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. – John Burroughs
Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Every day is a new opportunity to be grateful, and enjoy the world, and improve it — in our own little ways. – Terri Guillemets
When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down. – Justin Uyehara
The real “it is well” is something I say from the ground, having fallen. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
When life hands you a lemon, say, “Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?” – Henry Rollins
Clouds or no clouds, life is grand — be grateful for all the varieties of weather in your life. – Terri Guillemets
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. – Italian Proverb
