Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than to outrun exposer. the fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.