Quotes About Positivity

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

Be assured, Torvald, Kruppe's friend, that "bad" is never as bad as bad might be, even when it's very bad indeed.

When you been dead, everything after that's looking up.

Halston listened to her thoughtfully, smoking a cigarette, and when Liza was finished with her lament, he said softly, "Gee, I think about my life, and I've just had a wonderful life. Always. I was always a success. I've always had the best workers. I've always had the nicest friends. I always had everything I wanted.' He smiled his perfect smile at her. 'I've had a great life,' he said.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' And an optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse.

Actually, languages can be very tricky in this respect. The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative—to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, "Yeah, yeah.

Smile, it raises your face value.

there is something really optimistic and inspiring about waking up every day as if it's a new day, and not being defined in terms of who you were yesterday

pipe dream." This term meant the same then as it does today, a way of describing an irrational sense of optimism. Irrational or not, this is opium's greatest gift to the smoker: boundless optimism—the kind that one rarely experiences beyond childhood. All good things seem possible; problems are easily solvable; obstacles are always surmountable.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Every day is a brand new day!

Come now, lad, there's no room for a down look like that on your bonny face.

you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

I decided to practice revenge in a calmer way, by living well.

The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.

A positive. What you've got to believe, Kit, is that there are very few situations in life that are one hundred percent bad. Did you know that two years after becoming paralyzed, most paraplegics say that their life is better off than when they could walk? We are an adaptive species. Try to embrace that.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.