Events Quotes
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.