William Shenstone Quotes

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

I want to promote positivity.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

Hearing my daughter laugh is the best way to lift my spirit.

In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

We need music to restore the human spirit

I want to motivate the world, basically.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

What joy is better than the news of friends?

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

I like having people with me to lean on and write with and have fun with.

Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.