Positive-ish Quotes

I brought a big volume with me to Morocco since I knew I'd be involved with leadership and youth. It's called THE BOOK OF POSITIVE QUOTATIONS, 2nd Ed.

It just sat on my shelf the past year, but since I've had work trouble, I've decided just to read the thing straight through, 2 or 3 pages each day. And I underline my favorites, and decided I'll post my favorites.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace, it will come from being, not having.
-Henry Miller
(this one was a surprise, for anyone that's read TROPIC OF CANCER. But is it? That is certainly one of the most exuberant books about poverty life in Paris ever--recounting his trials but without seeming to complain about them).

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
- Daphne du Maurier

Anaïs Nin
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anaïs Nin
(this one, not a surprise at all, if you've read her writing)

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

-Brenda Ueland

I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman

Everything holds its breath except spring. She burst through as strong as ever.
-B.M. Bower

Happiness hates the timid!
-Eugene O'Neill

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
- Don Marquis

Happiness comes mor from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is oly our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again- this is the brave and happy life.
-JE Buchrose

The true object of all human life is play.
-GK Chesterton

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to live with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divnity itself is insulted when it is repressed. TO disapprove, to condemn--the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
-Freya Stark


Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-Judith Viorst

A caress is better than a career.
-Elizabeth Marbury



Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.
-Ntozake Shange

''Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.''
--Judith Viorst

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted byu the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.
--Patty Duke

'Tis what I love determines how I love.
--George Elliot

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
-RL Stevenson

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are different and yet the same.
--Anne Frank

The world is so full of a number of thins, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
-- RL Stevenson

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
--Rosalind Russell.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
-Josh Billings

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
-Alexnder Pope

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

John Ruskin

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet

- both by John Ruskin

"One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience."
--George Sand



Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
--Joseph Conrad

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness... and fewer those who have taken the chance.
--Andre Maurois

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeake a more lamentable poverty than that of whim who begs his daily bread.
-Charles Caleb Colton

Some pursue happiness, others create it.
-Anon.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
-Publius Syrus, A Roman Slave
(you can find a PDF of his Moral Sayings here :
http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&dq=THE%20MORAL%20SAYINGS%20of%20PUBLIUS%20SYRUS&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false)

Good nite! We could all use some of these, specially here now in the winter.
“Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.” – Judith Viorst

Source : "Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway." – Judith Viorst | Quotes of the day | Dictionary of Quotes - quotes

Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.” – Judith Vior

Source : "Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway." – Judith Viorst | Quotes of the day | Dictionary of Quotes - quotes

“Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.” – Judith Viorst

Source : "Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway." – Judith Viorst | Quotes of the day | Dictionary of Quotes - quotes