1. “If you can’t be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
2. “All great things are wound up with all things little.”
3. “Desire grows by what it feeds on.”
4. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
5. “We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
6. “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
7. “In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
8. “There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”
9. “A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”
10. “There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.”
11. “Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which suffer most sharply.”
12. “Everything that’s worth having is some trouble.”
13. “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
14. “No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.”
15. “Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”
16. “Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.”
17. “It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”
18. “Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.”
19. “To love is easy and therefore common – but to understand – how rare it is!”
20. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
21. “The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.”
22. “You were never poor as long as you had something to love.”
23. “It’s rather had to decide just when people are grown up.”
24. “The trouble with you people is that you don’t laugh enough.”
25. “Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.”
26. “Death grows friendlier as we grow older.”
27. “Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.”
28. “It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”
29. “Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.”
30. “Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.”
