Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

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

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

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.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fastest fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.