Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

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.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

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.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

No garden is without its weeds.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.