"A problem is a chance or you to do your best." Duke Ellington "Beginnings are scary.  Endings are usually sad, but it's the middles that count the most." Hope Floats "There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." --Phyllis Bottome   "Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?" --Lillian Hellman "When you can't solve the problem, manage it." --Dr. Robert H. Schuller "Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." --William James When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe "What worries you, masters you." --Haddon W. Robinson "Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all." --Ovid "Faith is the only known cure for fear." --Lena K. Sadler "Pain is the root of knowledge." --Simone Weil "The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests." --Gail Sheehy "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." --Helen Keller "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."