Dreams grow if you grow.

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

When you choose to be pleasant and positive in the way you treat others, you have also chosen, in most cases, how you are going to be treated by others.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to [grow and] become successful. For that reason it makes sense to be grateful for adversities that help you grow, even if it is only in understanding and compassion for other's suffering.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.