The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. Point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind. — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share
Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate; to be helled was to be shut off from. Now if there is such a thing as harmony there must be that something one can be in right relations with; for to be in right relations with anything… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share
A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share
And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
