Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

We can make an impression on this world if the world doesn't make too much impression on us.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.

We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.