Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

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

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

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.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.