“Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Widely attributed to Confucius online, but no site I found offers any further source details
“Good soldiers, who both love and trust their general, frequently march with more gaiety and alacrity to the forlorn station, from which they never expect to return, than they would to one where there was neither difficulty nor danger. In marching to the latter, they could feel no other sentiment than that of the dullness of ordinary duty: in marching to the former, they feel that they are making the noblest exertion which it is possible for them to make.”
Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, arguing that people shouldn’t have trouble facing disaster knowing God is good
“I suppose everyone knows this fear of getting ‘drawn in’, the moment at which a man realizes that what had seemed mere speculations are on the point of landing him in the Communist Party or the Christian Church – the sense that a door has just slammed and left him on the inside.”
C.S. Lewis Perelandra
“If one’s view of human nature is very constrained, then the alternative to loyalty is not impartiality but pure selfishness.”
Thomas Sowell A Conflict of Visions
“’I suppose there are two views about everything,’ said Mark. ‘Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.’”
Mark Studdock and William “Bill the Blizzard” Hingest in C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
Winston Churchill, quoted on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/721301-fear-is-a-reaction-courage-is-a-decision
“I once asked General Eisenhower’s son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn’t like.’”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living