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Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

When something bad happens to me I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help you and you will come out well.

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

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.