Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.