“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.”

“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

“To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful.”