One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Topic: Adversity, Attitude, Optimism
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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Old age is no place for sissies.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
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.
What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
Aloha is free.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
