30 quotes
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
"The purpose of entertainment is not to show us something new, but to help us see something in a new way."
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"This too shall pass."
"It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it."
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."