You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement.

Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?

You never judge a day by the weather!

Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.