Quotes About Positivity

Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?

Everything will turn out all right. You'll see. -I can't imagine how, said Atreyu. -Neither can I, said the luckdragon. But that's the best part of it.

From now on you'll succeed in everything you attempt. Because I'm a luckdragon. Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is a decision.

Optimism is a cure for many things.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Why would I think about missing a shot I haven't taken yet?

Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it and the second time when it happens.

Amos was not merely an optimist; Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Amos willed himself to be optimistic, because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Creators are joyful and positive. Creators look at "what is" and "what can be" instead of "what is not." Instead of excluding possibilities, creators include all possibilities, both real and imagined. They choose to interpret their own world and do not rely upon the interpretations of others. And most importantly, creators are creative because they believe they are creative.

To increase your self-affirmation, get in the habit of remembering your successes, your good qualities and characteristics, and forgetting your failures.

Record all the things you like about yourself—your positive qualities, characteristics, and traits. Include the successes you have had in every area of your life: work, home, school, and so on. Keep adding to this list as you think of more things and as you accomplish more. Acknowledging yourself, your abilities, and your own unique qualities will encourage you to get moving.

that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.

The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

I've believed in myself since day one.

You can be experiencing the worst, most gut-wrenching grief and still laugh or feel something positive or even fall in love, and it doesn't diminish the depth and sincerity of your grief.

Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters.

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.