Quotes About Positivity

All of us, young and old, need to be reminded that our attitude is something we choose. "Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most people," Abraham Lincoln said, "are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I'm trying to feel as good as I can.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

When you don't know anything, imagining you know something certainly does cheer you up." "It's the way of the optimist.

According to your faith be it unto you

First, see if you can make three positive comments for every negative one (and, by the way, a count is one negative comment).

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

It is never too late. Even if you are going to die tomorrow, Keep yourself straight and clear and be a happy human being today. If you keep your situation happy day by day, you will eventually reach the greatest happiness of enlightenment. – Lama Yeshe

We should never think that our mind has somehow become irreversibly contaminated. This is impossible.

Our problem is that inside us there's a mind going, "Impossible, impossible, impossible. I can't, I can't, I can't." We have to banish that mind from this solar system. Anything is possible; everything is possible. Sometimes you feel that your dreams are impossible, but they're not. Human beings have great potential; they can do anything. The power of the mind is incredible, limitless.

If you neglect to protect your mind, you can neither close the door to suffering nor open the door to happiness.– Lama Zopa Rinpoche

May you be happy . . . May you be free from suffering . . . May you be healthy . . . May you find peace and joy.

the practice of accepting all ill omens as charms."206

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Just be kind to yourself.

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Where there's life, there's hope, right? We're blessed.

Isn't it funny how often good things seem to come out of bad?

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.