Quotes About Positivity

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

when you are constantly prevailing upon the kindness of strangers-as a hitchhiker must-it keeps you in a positive frame of mind. Call it Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking. The Way of the Lift. The chrysanthemum and the Thumb. Heady on beer and the sound of my own voice, the aphorisms spilled out unchecked.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.

Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Get all the good laughs you can.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!

The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

I particularly like that last phrase," Mom said. "About protecting your own happiness.

That's the point, Will. You can't control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness.

It's three hours, and I know I probably won't feel up for it, but if I'm going to feel rotten, I'd rather feel rotten watching something wonderful than just sitting in the living room, looking at the wall.

Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous!

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!î

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Indeed, anger can be thought of as anti-joy.

Besides advising us to avoid people with vices, Seneca advises us to avoid people who are simply whiny, "who are melancholy and bewail everything, who find pleasure in every opportunity for complaint.

After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.