Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Click to viewWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Joy comes from using your potential.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances.
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.