"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." ― Samuel Smiles Topic(s): Relationship Tags: always More From Samuel Smiles "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry." "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." More In Relationship "I’d had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time – a Lancashire girl. I thought: ‘It’s a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn’t I realize it?’"― David Thewlis "However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."― Tim Murphy "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."― James A. Baldwin