You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Such is life, such the mysterious dispensations of providence. All of us have our little crosses, and every man, as the apostle so justly remarked, shall bear his own burden.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.