It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Leverage can come in many forms. Leverage can be your thoughts.people who win are careful with their thoughts, not saying I can't do that. Or it's too rosky. Or I can't afford it. Instead they say How can i do that? Or how can I reduce my risk? Or How can I afford it?

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty.... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift.

No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.

every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine.