If you find any one determined to talk failure and sickness and misfortune and disaster, walk away. You would not permit the dearest person on earth to administer slow poison to you if you knew it. Then why think it your duty to take mental potions which paralyze your courage and kill your ambition? Ella Wheeler Wilcox To be able to enjoy heaven, one must learn first to enjoy earth. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Regard the troubles and cares you encounter as the “punching bags” of fate, given you to develop your spiritual muscle.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Think of yourself each morning as an explorer in a new realm. Ella Wheeler Wilcox He who does not himself condition circumstances allows the process to be reversed, and becomes a conditioned circumstance.