Positive Advice Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
All of us have dreams. These should never be mocked or despised. Whatever they are, dreams are part of us, like arms or legs.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with bricks others have thrown at him.
Always do the things you fear the most, as courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Don't think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Courage is the ladder upon which all the other virtues climb.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organisation. Hence, angels could be as organised as the Mafia.
This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Solitude is a good place to visit, but a retrograde place to stay.
It's hard, but we must be willing to abandon the life we've planned in order to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin needs to be shed before the new one arrives.
You are born original, so don't die a copy.
Don't fall through the trapdoor of thinking you have something to lose.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water: when you swim you don't grab hold of the water; if you do you will sink and drown; instead you relax and float.
Determination
When everything seems to be going against you, remember an aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Failure is a condiment that give success its flavour.
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
The road to success is always under construction.
Considering his difficulties, he was a cork that could not be held under water for long.
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Bravery never goes out of style; peace is costly but it's worth the expense.
What matters isn't the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Problems are like hills; that look hopelessly steep from a distance, but when we approach them, they flatten out.
Don't let your victories get to your head, or you failures get to your heart.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us: it depends whether we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Gardening requires lots of water — mainly in the form of perspiration.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Be the master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for big worthwhile goals. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the sand in your shoe.
Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.
Man cannot discover new oceans without the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Love
Absence, that common cure of love.
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird-songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Life is a romantic business: it is painting a picture, not doing a sum; it is how much fire you have in your belly.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without, but knows we cannot live within.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, yet the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost.
People are like stained-glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness is a twin.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Perspective
Ordinary thinking persuades us that we are nothing but acorns, and our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shiner acorns — but such is of interest only to pigs. Whereas our faith gives better insight, that we can grow into oak trees.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enable us to count our blessings.
A happy person is completely caught up in the moment, with no thought for the past or future, whereas Mr. Misery is fixated with painful memories, needing to dwell on bad feelings to justify bad blood.
Life is like riding a bike: to keep your balance you must keep moving.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
A failure is one who has blundered, but is unable to cash in the experience.
If you observe a truly happy man: you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness like it was a collar button that has rolled under a radiator.
The whole process of meeting and solving problems gives life its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguish between success and dèbâcle. It is because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Illusion is the dust thrown into the eyes of fools.
A feather does not fly of its own accord, it is borne up by the air. So too I am not imbued with human doctrine or strong powers. Rather, I depend entirely on God's help.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is the glue.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
Here's the real secret: to be absolutely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it work, recognise it as play.
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts which pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds that fly over the seed-plot he guards; the responsibility is to prevent them from setting.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Worry grows best in the soil of indecision.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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