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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 5 likes | |
When things are at their worst I find something always happens. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 5 likes | |
When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 5 likes | |
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 5 likes | |
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes | |
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 5 likes | |
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 4 likes | |
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes | |
Make way for the positive day. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes | |
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 3 likes | |
Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes | |
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes | |
The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes | |
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes | |
Never wait for trouble. — Chuck Yeager, 1923-2020, American pioneer pilot 2 likes | |
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes | |
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. | |
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. | |
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. | |
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. | |
Leave all the doors open, but vigorously defend the entrance. | |
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man. | |
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. | |
At the darkest moment comes the light. | |
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. | |
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher | |
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher | |
God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. | |
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. | |
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. | |
If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked. | |
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. | |
How beautiful to see the snow on the village! Not everything is so bad in this world. The snow could be black. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist | |
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile. | |
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. | |
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. | |
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done. | |
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. | |
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. | |
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. | |
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. |
Ancient Greek
Love that only which happens to you and is spun with the thread of your destiny. For what is more suitable? Μόνως φιλείν το εαυτώ συμβαίνον και συγκλωθόμενον. Τι γαρ αρμοδιώτερον; — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VII, 58 6 likes | |
He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has. Ευγνώμων ο μη λυπεόμενος εφ’ οίσιν ουκ έχει, αλλά χαίρων εφ’ οίσιν έχει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes | |
Like the present things, look for the better. Στέργε μεν τα παρόντα, ζήτει δε τα βελτίω. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 4 likes |
Proverbs
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come. 4 likes | |
Every cloud has a silver lining. 4 likes | |
If life deals you lemons, make lemonade. 2 likes |