There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.

Life is unfair, but that's no reason to give up on it

Life is full of challenges thus that you spend Get used to it

To live a life half dead, a living death.