Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

I'm very religious. I believe that things happen, and you have to go along with them.

I don't even believe in hope. I just let it happen.

I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think about today..." "No, that's giving up... I'm still hpoing that yesterday will get better.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

Whatever is, is right.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

My philosophy involves imaging terrible things happening all the time, and getting used to it, so reality isn't so bad. And then you're always happy. You really just have to think yourself through it. That is how I've been able to come to happiness, but it is a subtle difference between scaring yourself all the time with terrible things happening, it's more about actually about making peace with it. That's my advice.

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

Make each day a masterpiece. Don't think your best days are out there somewhere. Why not today? Why can't today be a great day? It can if you believe it will.

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?

You should always think good things and always look for the good in the world. If you look for the bad in the world, you will always find something bad. But if you look for the good you will find it, it is there

I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.