Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
-Reed Hastings
Sail
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination
– Jimmy Dean
Cards
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
-Jack London
Clouds
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunlight sky.
-Tagore
Days
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
-Unknown
Light
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
-Maya Angelou
Optimism
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
-Nicholas M. Butler
Be glad
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
-Hafiz
Planted
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.
-Christine Caine
Keep going
“I’m going through hell!” . . . “Well, keep on going. That is no place to stop!”
― John Randall Dunn