Echoes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Accept everything just the way it is.

When you are content to be simply yourself, everybody will respect you.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Optimism is true moral courage.

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.