Someone said "Something"

Life's not been same for everyone who lived it. It gave different challenges to everyone, put everyone across a distinct situation which had to be dealt with according to the circumstances at that very moment. Now, they concluded their experiences and left for the world, some words of 'wisdom and greatness' which all (or at least the most of them) have unfortunately been accepted as universal rules.
* "Life is not a bed of roses"
Seriously taken!
Result: Life now seems to be too much of a difficult job and every calamity we're facing adds up to our view that 'life really is VERY difficult.
* "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I m possible"
Got it!
Result: Since there's nothing that we think is impossible, we start being stubborn about the things we take up. We start wasting our time and energy on one particular thing because 'someone' said that it's not 'impossible'. Because we have forgotten the concept of moving on to something else, something that actually is possible.
* "Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by the lack of meaning and purpose"
Okay!
Result: Here we go, cursing our own self, thinking that it is perhaps us and our visionless mind due to whom the things are getting 'unbearable', that there is no role of circumstances in all what's happening.
* "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"
Ahan? Noted!
Result: We start being so fearless that we actually forget that this is a cruel world we live in. We take the fact, that not everyone gets successful in this world, for granted.

Those who spent their lives before us, had a different world in front of them, different kind of situations to cope up with. We, today, live in a completely changed world. In a world where things actually are impossible, where circumstances do make the things unbearable, where the fear of being unsuccessful is now no less rare than the failure itself. We need to see the world with respect to what it is now. Why to say that 'a great man said this'? Why not live an ideal life and be the 'great man'?

Illusion

To everything we see, there are many visions. To every one of those visions, there are certain limitations. And every one of those limitations opens a gate towards a stream of endless possibilities. The vision depicting reality being 'practical' is usually what shapes someone's way of doing things. Least do we care about a parallel vision of the same thing being seen. The vision which might lead us to a better idea, might teach us a better lesson, the picture presented by an 'Illusion'.
Maybe not an applicable solution but such an angle of thinking does become a food for thought. It might even make one more determined and confident. The reason is that an illusion presents before us, the same scenario we desire of in the best of our optimistic senses. The reality will definitely put one across numerous hurdles but a start well determined, precedes an end well done. And with all that hope taken out of one 'imaginary' pictures, hurdles don't stand a chance.
Humanity believes just in reality. Asking someone the reason for that; answer cones out to be, "Because this is what God wants us to face". But, it is also the same God who gave is the capability to think optimistically and it is He who shows us those illusions. If they really were meaningless, hell they would never have existed.