Quotes About Positivity

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Y en lo que respecta a las relaciones, solo me rodeo de seres humanos que estimulen mi alegría, que me den paz y me animen a ser un hombre mejor. La vida es demasiado valiosa como para malgastarla con gente que no te entiende.

Your thoughts form your world. What you focus on in your life grows, what you think about expands and what you dwell on determines your destiny. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

no dejéis que el dolor de un pasado imperfecto obstaculice la gloria de un futuro maravilloso.

For your own maximum productivity, top performance, boundless joyfulness and peace of mind, it's really important to avoid 'bad people', those who are filled with wounds from the past that they don't have the self-awareness not to project onto you their own misery.

Los buenos amigos están para ayudarte cuando la vida te lanza uno de sus reveses y las cosas parecen peores de lo que son.

Consiste en resistir a la tiranía de lo ordinario, en impedir que la negatividad se apropie de vuestra capacidad de asombro y en evitar que cualquier forma de esclavitud de la mediocridad infeste vuestras vidas.

The words you use determine the way you perceive reality. If you call a stumbling block a "problem" or "a big mess", you will create a different emotional state within you than if you call the issue "an opportunity" or "a challenge that will only make me better".

No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

That's because people find what they're looking for. If we look for beauty, we'll find beauty. If we look for conspiracies, we'll find conspiracies. It's all a matter of setting our mental channel.

There's only one way to defeat the sorrow and sadness of life - with laughter and rejoicing. Bring out the good dishes, put on your good clothes, no sense hoarding them.

If you view the world as a predominately hostile place, it will be," wrote Ed Buryn.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

That was for damn sure.

I'm always happy," he said. "Always was, always will be.

Technique 52: Carrier pigeon kudos People immediately grow a beak and metamorphosize themselves into carrier pigeons when there's bad news. (It's called gossip.) Instead, become a carrier of good news and kudos. Whenever you hear something complimentary about someone, fly to them with the compliment. Your fans may not posthumously stuff you and put you on display in a museum like Stumpy Joe. But everyone loves the Carrier Pigeon of kind thoughts.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Most of all it has taught me to appreciate the absence of bad luck, the absence of events that might have brought us down, and the absence of the disease, war, famine, and accident that have not—or have not yet—befallen us.

Research suggests that your happiness set point as well as circumstances and recent events accounts for much but not all of your happiness level. What about the rest? That's due to our behavior, and the good news is, in contrast to the others, this factor is very much under our control.

In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.

appreciate the absence of bad luck, the absence of events that might have brought us down, and the absence of the disease, war, famine, and accident that have not—or have not yet—befallen us.

You are never fully dressed until you put on a smile!