"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

— Winston Churchill

"The purpose of entertainment is not to show us something new, but to help us see something in a new way."

— Unknown

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

— Willie Nelson

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

— Walt Whitman

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

— Oscar Wilde

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

— Charles R. Swindoll

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

— Confucius

"This too shall pass."

— Anonymous

"It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game."

— Unknown

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

— Robert Frost

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."

— Alan Kay

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

— Aldous Huxley

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

— Thomas A. Edison

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

— Rick Warren

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

— William A. Ward

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."

— Anaïs Nin

"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."

— Chris Pine

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

— Walt Whitman

"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."

— Helen Keller

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

— Isaac Asimov

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

— Horace Walpole

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

— Mizuta Masahide

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

— Marcel Proust

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

— Marilyn Monroe

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

— Epictetus

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

— Oscar Wilde

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

— William Gibson

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche