Irish playwright Bernard Shaw got so many refusals to be published that any other person would have stopped trying long ago. Still, he saw his dream, and he made his dream come true. He soon became a person known all over the world.

Bright Side collected inspiring quotes from the man who remained optimistic and enthusiastic, because he knew for sure that better days always come in spite of troubles.

1. You see things and you say ’’Why?’’ But I dream things that never were, and I say ’’Why not?’’
2. Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
3. The longer I live, the more I think that, in the solar system, the Earth acts as a madhouse.
4. If ever chasing happiness you find it someday, you, like an old woman looking for her glasses, will find that happiness was all the time on your nose.
5. Advice is like Castor Oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
6. Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
7. The man with a toothache thinks everyone is happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
8. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
9. Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
10. The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
11. You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous. The ice of life is slippery.
12. It’s never too late to get away from the crowd. Follow your dream, move toward your goal.
13. The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you’ll be too busy to know whether you’re happy or not.
14. My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
15. For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
16. You can never create a good book until you write a couple of bad ones.
17. A human is like a brick: when burning, he becomes tougher.
18. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
19. The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
20. Life, happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, is extraordinarily interesting.

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