Do Something Crazy

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Do something.
If it doesn't work, do something else.
No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
- Waylon Jennings

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Today is your day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- jlh

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Dance Lightly with Life

Unfurl Your Joy

Sense of Humor

Be Cheerful

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Whimsey

Laughter

Congratulate Yourself

Congratulate yourself whenever you have done your best,
regardless of the outcome.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie

He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Always do your best, and always accept life as it comes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How often we fail to appreciate what we have already accomplished. Take a moment, right now, to congratulate yourself on what you have accomplished today, this week, in your lifetime.

Further reading: Simply Do Your Best

Value Completion

How to Feel Good About Yourself

How to Stay Positive

Take Charge of Your Life

Appreciate Yourself

Risk

Fail

Self Esteem

Gratitude, Not Worry

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Thank you, God, for this good life
and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't
come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Koenig

Time and health are two precious assets
that we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted.
- Denis Waitley

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Power of Gratitude

Life Is Beautiful

Give Thanks

Appreciating Our Blessings

Abundance

Worry

Fear

Win Some, Lose Some

How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Remember you will not always win.
Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat.
But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -
after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- Maxwell Maltz

Defeat is not the worst of failures.
Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George Edward Woodberry

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

The Babe, as well as being the Home Run King, led the American League in Strike Outs in 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927 and 1928.

You are certain never to be a winner if you don't take your time at bat. Do your best, and accept with gratitude whatever result you get.

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Feel Better About Yourself

How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret

How to Deal with Rejection

Coping with Heartbreak

Defeat

Failure

Grace

Mistakes

Feeling Down? Help Someone Else

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Sharing Happiness

Be Cheerful

Helping Others

Feeling Down

Feeling Depressed 

Service

Kindness

Unhappy

Sad