Quotes About Positivity

As Ennius wrote, "The good is mostly in the absence of bad"; Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali.

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little. So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible. Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

There is a Yiddish saying: "If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind." If I am going to be fooled by randomness, it better be of the beautiful (and harmless) kind.

the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

The good is mostly in the absence of bad";

Finally, this explains why people who look too closely at randomness burn out, their emotions drained by the series of pangs they experience. Regardless of what people claim, a negative pang is not offset by a positive one (some psychologists estimate the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

the blindness of hope

good news is good news first; how good matters rather little.

The good is not as good as the absence of bad.

Men feel the good less intensely than the bad

While healthy self-assertiveness requires the ability to say no, it is ultimately tested not by what we are against but by what we are for.

When we eliminate negatives, we clear the way for the emergence of positives, and when we cultivate positives, negatives often weaken or disappear.

It is poor self-esteem that places us in an adversarial relationship to our well-being.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

research discloses that high self-esteem is one of the best predictors of personal happiness

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health.

A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Love must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Despite all her misgivings and regrets, she was "determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

Nothing awful is without its beautiful side.