To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.