Quotes About Positivity

Ask a friend or family member to do the same. I know several people who keep a gratitude stone in their pocket. Every time they put their hand in their pocket and touch the stone or remove it from their pocket, they think about things for which they are grateful.

Apparently we have such an automatically positive reaction to compliments that we can fall victim to someone who uses them in an obvious attempt to win our favor.

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

Too much positive is either scared or stupid or both. Reality is uncertain.

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days — you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

To accept reality is only to encourage it.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requirement.

All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist.

Look not thou down but up!

It's hardly in a body's pow'r, To keep, at times, frae being sour.