Positive quotes

“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source

“Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”

Confucius

Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source

“The arms best adapted to old age are culture and the active exercise of the virtues.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Old Age, section 3 · View source

“The consciousness of a well-spent life and the recollection of many virtuous actions are exceedingly delightful.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Old Age, section 3 · View source

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source

“The benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Compensation · View source

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1 · View source

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 · View source

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 · View source

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V, Act 2, Scene 4 · View source

“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali, poem 37 · View source