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“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”

“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”

“What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.”

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“The best things in life aren't things.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”