#sit

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#curiosity #journalist #writing #art

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #life-is-a-bowl-of-cherries

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#positive-attitude #attitude

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive. ↗

— Abby Morel

#negative #positive #thought #attitude

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#confidence #doubt #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #positivity

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge. ↗

— Roopleen

#inspiration #inspire #life #motivation #never-give-up

Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#famous-quotes #inspirational-quotes #philosophy #positive-attitude #attitude

by indignities men come to dignities ↗

— Francis Bacon

#men

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ’s sake, and from no other motive. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#giving #guilt #attitude

The more I focus on the positive, the more positive my life becomes. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#positive #attitude