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I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

We are not troubled by things but by the opinion which we have of things.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

Always take an emergency leisurely.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.

When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all things though destitute of everything.