Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
- Topic: Attitude, Optimism, Pessimism, Thinking
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
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