Quotes by Authors - Page 187

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.
Moshe Waldoks
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.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.
Harriet Rochlin
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Evelyn Underhill
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.
Amy Alcott
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.
Linda Ellerbee
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.
Katherine Mansfield
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
Lyn Karol
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
Elizabeth Janeway
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay
All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
James A. Michener
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.
James Brady
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.
William Bolitho
Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West
One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Anonymous
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anonymous
If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
Sally Stanford
When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you it will kill you.
Yoko Ono
Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Michel de Montaigne
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
H. Bertram Lewis
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
G.K. Chesterton
What you can't get out of get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
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.
Florynce Kennedy
Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.
Victoria Holt
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
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.
Cathy Lee Crosby
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
Boethius
No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy the way it affects his self-image.
Bonaro Overstreet
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Anonymous
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.
James Freeman Clarke
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
Stendhal
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.
Oscar Wilde
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.
Anaïs Nin
Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.
John Telgen
When things go wrong don't go with them.
Anonymous
Tears mess up your makeup.
Julia Child
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony like a following breeze at sea is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost our lot is to tack and tune.
Harvey Oxenhorn
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
Herbert Benson
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.
Anonymous
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
Louis L'Amour
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
Anonymous
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W Sockman
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.
Karen Horney
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.
Christie Brinkley
Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
Anonymous
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.
George Cullum