Showing posts with label Negativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Negativity. Show all posts

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Quote of the Day (Athol Fugard, on Rejecting Negativity)

“It came quite early in my life. I realised one day what is necessary is that you leave the destructive negative emotions…outside the door and close the door. The only emotion I sit with when I write is love.”—South African playwright Athol Fugard (1932-2025) quoted by Franklin Nelson, “Obituary: Chronicler of South Africa’s Painful Era of Apartheid,” The Financial Times, Mar. 15-16, 2025

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Quote of the Day (Isaac Bashevis Singer, on Negativity)

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”—Polish-American fiction writer Nobel Literature Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), appearing on the “Dick Cavett Show,” PBS, July 17, 1978