“Dear old world, you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
L. M. Montgomery
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Positive Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · POSITIVE
Positive Quotes
Read 200 of the best positive quotes on happiness, gratitude, cheerfulness and a good attitude from Helen Keller, Emerson, Franklin and more.
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
L. M. Montgomery
FriendshipJoy
“I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
L. M. Montgomery
OptimismFuture
“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Positive ThinkingMindset
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
PossibilityHope
“Whatever comes, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Self-WorthDignity
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Kenneth Grahame
JoySimple Pleasures
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
ImaginationPossibility
“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
ChangeLetting Go
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
IntegrityFunny
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
Oscar Wilde
LifeFunny
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Jane Austen
JoyUnderstanding
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Brontë
HappinessAttitude
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
Charlotte Brontë
ForgivenessLetting Go
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.”
George Eliot
HopeLife
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PresentMindfulness
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FriendshipGratitude
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HealthContentment
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
Henry David Thoreau
FriendshipKindness
“I love a broad margin to my life.”
Henry David Thoreau
SimplicityPeace
“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling!”
Walt Whitman
NatureJoy
“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”
John Keats
BeautyLove
“Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.”
Robert Burns
ContentmentCheerfulness
“Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.'”
Marcus Aurelius
MindsetPeace
“How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks.”
Marcus Aurelius
PeaceFocus