"Sure, there are many bad things that..." - Quote by Ralph Marston
Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.
More by Ralph Marston
“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.”
“Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.”
“Imagine the possibilities!”
More on Perspective
“The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.”
“Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
More on Reality
“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.”
“Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.”
“I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”