If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I...

There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say...

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray - Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and...

Once he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death - agony; but he just went off into the bush and probably ate something, for he came back in a few days quite...

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

"So now what?" I ask. She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she's gone to sleep. "I think this is just part of it," she says. "Civilisations fall. People keep going."

When things are bad, be thankful... they are not as bad as they could be.

Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find her way out of this labyrinth in hell, that she will never see, feel, taste, or touch life...

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.

We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.

"{Gina} I got them Bad Old Cosmic C - Word Blues Again.{Mark} What does 'c - word' mean?{Gina} It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat...

You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.

Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can...

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.

It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. He didn't say...

You never think it's going to happen to you, do you?

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.