Quotes About Positivity

Girls are always at their best smiling.

It has an eggplant in it, so it must be a good dream.

Now relax, think positively and begin --- the smile of success awaits you.

Goethe: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn't job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.

In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed

Blackness was not the whole of it. "There are bright points of light—so many!—between the dark places. This is what's important. This is where life is.

Sunflowers know the secret of life is to follow the sun.

If all your dreams have broken and gone, if you feel isolated in your own private world, go out this minute and buy a sunflower. Place it on a sunny shelf, give it a little water every day – not too much – and as its big yellow face turns to the sun you will feel your lips lift in a smile knowing that you have learned the secret life of sunflowers.

Belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The way she saw it, she was lucky. She wasn't really blind—she just saw a different world from most other folks, and that put her in a unique position to do some good in the world.

Hope costs nothing.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.

sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

Maybe these bad things are good things because they build our faith for what is to come.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

Did your mom ever tell you, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything'? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you're talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

T[his isn't just "another day, another dollar." It's more like "another day, another miracle." (213)

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356)

Try not to dwell on what you might have done differently. You cannot change the past, and it only spoils the future.