Quotes from Hal Urban

Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.

The more we have and the easier life is, the more we take things for granted. Then we start sniveling as soon as things are less than perfect.

Look for the good instead of the bad, the right instead of the wrong, the beauty instead of the blight, the joy instead of the sorrow. Do this and you'll always have something good to say.

I happen to believe that the overwhelming majority of people in the world are law-abiding, loving, and caring. They just don't get any publicity for it.

Why waste your time and energy looking for the negative, finding it, and then bringing other people down by talking about it all the time? Doesn't it make a lot more sense to look for the good, find the good, and then celebrate it with others?

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

sense of inner peace and a feeling of self-worth.

Orang yang paling cerdas di muka bumi ini adalah orang yang tahu bagaimana menjadi orang yang bahagia.

Kalau kita tidak mencarinya, kita tidak akan menemukannya, dan kemampuan kita tetap tersembunyi. Pada akhirnya, kita hanya melihat keterbatasan-keterbatasan, bukan kemungkinan-kemungkinan.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." It would follow, then, that no one can make you feel anything without your consent.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." ANN LANDERS

The professor, a wise and kind Jesuit, said, "An open mind is an attitude. It means you don't think you already know everything.

We live by choice, not by chance.