Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"This too shall pass away."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"My life’s long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my pathway I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence, but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid coloring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn’s place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I’ll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox