“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”
Lord Byron
NatureJoy
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.
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ChangeNew Beginnings
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LifeOptimism
“Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PresentAction
“Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them.”
Marcus Aurelius
PerspectiveWonder
“For freedom is not acquired by satisfying yourself with what you desire, but by destroying your desire.”
Epictetus
FreedomContentment
“It is more human to laugh at life than to lament it.”
Seneca
LaughterAttitude
“A light heart lives long.”
William Shakespeare
CheerfulnessHealth
“Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
William Shakespeare
FriendshipEquality
“Then sigh not so, but let them go, and be you blithe and bonny.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoCheerfulness
“A soft answer turneth away wrath.”
The Bible (Proverbs 15:1)
Kind WordsPeace
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice.”
The Bible (Romans 12:15)
JoyFriendship
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
The Bible (John 1:5)
HopeLight
“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
BeautyPatience
“Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
The Bible (John 16:33)
CheerfulnessFaith
“The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”
Rabindranath Tagore
LoveWonder
“Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light!”
Rabindranath Tagore
LightJoy
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LaughterAttitude
“'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales which tells us the way to go.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
AttitudeDirection
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
WisdomInsight
“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern.”
Thomas Jefferson
HopeCourage
“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.”
Joseph Addison
HealthCheerfulness
“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
VisionHope
“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.”
L. M. Montgomery
AnticipationJoy
“The year's at the spring and day's at the morn; morning's at seven; the hill-side's dew-pearled.”
Robert Browning
MorningJoy