Positive Strokes Quotes

#1. Sometimes being a supportive friend to her mother is the only way for the daughter to get positive strokes from Mom. The daughter may fall into the friend role willingly, not even realizing there is something terribly wrong with the arrangement until much later in life.

Karyl McBride

#2. Honesty and Poetry are the same thing

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

Roger Mahony

#4. Of all the comforting objects in this world, few things are as reassuring and accepting as books.

Drea Damara

#5. There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Adam Hamilton

#7. There weren't so many transvestite prostitutes in Oaxaca in those days; Flor really stood out, and not only because she was tall. She was almost beautiful; what was beautiful about her truly wasn't affected by the softest-looking trace of a mustache on her upper lip, though Lupe noticed it.

John Irving

#8. Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Elizabeth George

#9. No, I'm telling this wrong. After all a person is herself and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me and you.

N.K. Jemisin

#10. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Anne Bronte

#11. a push up or two . . . or twenty.

Karen Cantwell

#12. The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

Kehinde Wiley

#13. Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

William Bradford

#14. Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky