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Quotes About Positivity

All days are happy...if you let them be.
~ Elizabeth Webster
Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you're treading quicksand in the swamp of what-might- have-been, you can be sure that's the message your child gets. You're a rare person if being constantly reminded of your shortcomings spurs you to improve. For the rest of us, it's a self-esteem squasher. Time to grab for that overhead vine and realize that only a pencil dot separates "bitter" and "better.
~ Ellen Notbohm
The difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude." These words, from the book The Power of Unconditional Love by Ken Keys, Jr., form the overarching sentiment for everything I believe about raising a child with autism, and they come from a man who lived that difference every day.
~ Ellen Notbohm
Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.
~ Ellis Peters
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.
~ Alfred Wainwright
Whoever warns you against sins and vices is like the one who gives you good tidings.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
be ready to be above and beyond the foul even when we're up to our eyes in it.
~ Ali Smith
Na, mondja. Figyelj. Nem szabad többé elhinned minden hazugságot arról, hogy a világ meg van mérgezve. És a bombákat. És a vegyszereket. Mert ebbÅ'l semmi nem igaz. Nem?, kérdi Arthur. Nem, mondja Sophia. Mert akik mindenfélét csinálnak a világban, miért ne a legjobbat akarnák a világnak?
~ Ali Smith
In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.
~ Alice B. Emerson
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.
~ Alice Kuipers
Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.
~ Alice Kuipers
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
~ Alice Morse Earle
Everyday may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
~ Alice Morse Earle
May everyday be the best possible day it can be
~ Alice Morse Earle
The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
~ Alice Munro
Some people are so sweet you can't hold the thought of them and trouble in the same mind at the same time.
~ Alice Randall
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.
~ Alice Steinbach