Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

Today, as some of us weep for what could have been, we look to the future with faith that on another morning joy will surely come.

Relief is not a word that ever enters my mind, about anything.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.