There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
- Topic: Change, Happiness
- Location: Antelope Canyon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.
Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.
Appearance rules the world.
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
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.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
