Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick Faber

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri Frédéric Amiel

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
English Proverb

What is possible? What you will.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Margot Asquith

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
William Cowper

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.
David Ambrose

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson

The real it is well is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
Antonio Porchia
Voces, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
Pearl Bailey

Mind is everything. Muscle pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worship, The Conduct of Life.

Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
Brooks Atkinson
Once Around the Sun.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.
Leo Tolstoy

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjold

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius

It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley

Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect 30% of medicine is showbiz.
Ronald Spark