Life skills : Be optimistic

If you want to get somewhere, you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

• The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.

• Help other people to cope with their problems and your own will be easier to cope with.

• Never use the word impossible seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebasket.

• Self-trust is the first secret of success. So believe in and trust yourself.

• Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

• Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

• How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.

• Go at life with abandon; give it all you’ve got. And life will give all it has to you. — Norman Vincent Peale