"...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings."

-- Kristin Hunter

#Optimistic Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
“I cannot imagine what an influence a five-week trip to the Orient had on me. I mean, the culture, the absorption of the Japanese way of life, the Japanese way of thinking, the discipline. The entire thing was an extraordinary experience. So these were more than memorable things to me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.”
“Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.”
“I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”
“Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do.”
“Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.”
“Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.”

You may also like:

Alice Childress
Playwright
Diahann Carroll
Television actress
Ethel Waters
Vocalist
Harry Belafonte
Singer
Lena Horne
Singer
Naomi Mitchison
Novelist
Norman Jewison
Film director
Pearl Bailey
Actress
Lee Grant
Film actress