Stoic Morning Quotes

#1. Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

William Butler Yeats

#2. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well.

The Shawshank Redemption

#3. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

Michael Franti

#4. Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Cees Nooteboom

#5. At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

Neil Marshall

#6. When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

Ray Lamontagne

#7. Like my father, I looked up rather more than I looked out.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are

Hermann Hesse

#9. But as nearly every denomination in the United States faces declining membership and waning influence, Christians may need to get used to the idea of measuring significance by something other than money, fame, and power. No one ever said the fruit of the Spirit is relevance or impact or even revival

Rachel Held Evans

#10. God doesn't expect us to be perfect women or perfect missionaries. Rather, He wants us to learn to lean upon Him more, to let Him be our help during those stormy blasts.

Jody Hedlund

#11. Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

Henning Mankell

#12. The most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Agnes Repplier

#13. Come on, new friend. Let's go chalk up my thirteenth defeat in a row!

Rick Riordan

#14. Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.

Henry A. Kissinger

#15. I have journeyed back in thought
with thought hopelessly tapering off as I went
to remote regions where I groped for some secret outlet only to discover that the prison of time is spherical and without exits. Short of suicide I have tried everything.

Vladimir Nabokov