After great droughts come great rains.

You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Aloha is free.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.