Positive Day Starters Quotes & Sayings

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.' — Joseph Campbell

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Most crises are not resolved through rhetoric. They are resolved through operations. — Eric Dezenhall

Shut your mouth - there's a bus coming. — Linda De Quincey

Don't waste hate on pink geranium. — Elizabeth Goudge

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel

Some people save the boxes for electrical appliances because they think they can get more money for the appliances if they ever sell them. This, however, is a waste. If you consider the rent or mortgage you pay, turning your space into a storage shed for empty boxes costs you more than what you could earn selling an appliance in a box. You don't need to keep them for moving either. You can worry about finding suitable boxes when the time comes. It's a shame to let a boring box take up room in your house just because you might need it someday. — Marie Kondo

You just have to have a simple faith. — Jimmy Carter

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death without dying is the worst kind of death — Lesley Jones

But these thoughts broke apart in his head and were replaced by strange fragments: This is my soul and the world unwinding, this is my heart in the still winter air. — Emily St. John Mandel