Bartleby The Scrivener Characterization Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mason says, "A decision to rejoice in the present changes not only the present, it also changes my view of the past and ignites my future with hope."[26] I've stopped demanding that a moment last longer than it can. I don't require a moment to be anything other than what it is: a brief span of time that has been given by a gracious Father. I will wring every bit of pleasure out of this moment because I don't know when the next one will come. We're rarely satisfied with today; we spend too much time regretting the unrepeatable past and wishing we could get a do-over, or we waste our energy on worry and anxiety about the unknowable future. Either way, TODAY is ignored or minimized. — Kay Warren

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime. — Wayne Jacobsen

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour. — Mahatma Gandhi

Fitness is like marriage, you can't cheat and expect it to work. — Anonymous

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions. — Angela Y. Davis