Quotes About Positivity

The pleasant life: a life that successfully pursues the positive emotions about the present, past, and future.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

I nominate this song as the "Song for the group" (from the Benefit CD): Chorus from the song "Inside" by Jethro Tull for it's positive mention of "joe": I'm sittin' in the corner feelin' glad, got no money comin' in but I can't be sad, That was the best cuppa coffee I ever had, And I won't worry about a thing because we got it made, here on the Inside outside's so far away.

We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light.

I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn't exist only in your mind—you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.

Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.

Life's too short to be mad.

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.

Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile.

If some area of your life sucks - do something else. Life is too short - and too long - to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more.

If you are stuck sweating on a sandbar in the river of your life you've got to find a way back into those swift effervescent currents of joy that are your birthright.

All the top sellers I know possess a unique balance of positivity and negativity. They're always optimistic about the ultimate outcomes, but they sometimes seem paranoid about everything that could possibly go wrong. That's why they succeed.

Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.

Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!