Positive Outlook Towards Life Quotes & Sayings

Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender. — Dan B. Allender

How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist than to expose themselves totally to each other- totally, integrally, absolutely- so that their common solitude may appear not in front of their own eyes but in front of ours, yes, how not to look there and how not to rediscover "the negative community, the community of those who have no community"? — Maurice Blanchot

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him. — Sigmund Freud

The test of man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?'. The final test of religion is not religiousness, but love: not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged. It could not be otherwise. For the withholding of love is the negation of the Spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain.
Pastor Henry Drummond, 1890 — Paulo Coelho

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists. — Keith Thompson

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable — Rene Descartes

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia. — Joe Manchin

Tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.
... the window rosy with anemic November light. — Lauren Slater

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something. — Federico Fellini

While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens will have to save more and consume less. Working lives with lengthen. For many, retirement will be revert to being a luxury. Taxes and charges for government services will rise to match the cost of providing them. There has to be greater emphasis on the real economy - the creation and sale of goods and services. Financial institutions need to return to their actual role of supporting economic activity. — Satyajit Das

I have a serious draft where there's usually no draft, Seth."
The heat intensified as a muttered groan left his throat. "You're trying to kill me."
The feel of his erection against her lower stomach, the scent of his need and the strength of his arms around her assured her Seth had little thought for anything but that draft and that bow beneath her dress.
"There's a serious arising where there's usually no arising in public too," he growled, causing a hint of laughter to escape her. — Lora Leigh