Quotes About Positivity

If it makes me happy, it definitely adds to my well-being.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

You can't take it on that you're responsible for somebody else's well-being, but you can be positive and bring them up.

'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better. That doesn't mean just the absence of mental illness. It's the presence of positive emotions that allows us to be resilient in the face of adversity.

I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.

I have stopped thinking too much. It all started against West Indies. I told myself that I want to enjoy my life. I don't want selection issues to rule my happiness.

There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing that everything's negative and everything's shot to bits. It's really important that we know we can change this planet for the better and that every single one of us, no matter how small we may feel, has that power.

That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the outside world. Trying to praise something through comedy or be appreciative and making jokes about it is more challenging than cutting things down.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

It is always positive when you get a lot of praise, but you should handle it the right way.

When you play for India and also start performing, your fan base increases, the media highlights your performances. You feel a sense of positivity with all the praise and adulation that comes your way.

I'm confident that if you do what's right, and you work hard and you pray a lot, no matter what it is, everything will just fall into place.

I was incarcerated for a little while in Baltimore, and my celly was Muslim. I was watching him pray every day, and his outlook on getting out of that situation was a lot more positive than the other dudes that were Muslim in the jail.