Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times
The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times
“Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Variant: It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself
Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer
Source: Doktor Sleepless, Volume 1: Engines of Desire
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Often misattributed to Friedrich Nietzsche. <br class="br">Source: As quoted from “Interview with an Immoral,” Arthur Gordon, Reader’s Digest (July 1959). Reprinted in the Kipling Society journal, “Six Hours with Rudyard Kipling”, Vol. XXXIV. No. 162 (June, 1967) pp. 5-8. Interview took place in June, 1935 https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pdf/KJ162.pdf <br class="br">Context: Looking back, I think he knew that in my innocence I was eager to love everything and please everybody, and he was trying to warn me not to lose my own identity in the process. Time after time he came back to this theme. " The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Source: Lilith A and Lilith, 1896: A Duplex