Quotes About Positivity

most of us can literally "choose" to be happy, if we understand the mind's thought–emotion mechanism.

How much better life would be if we began the day with a poem rather than the empty prattle of newspapers, with their diet of fear, hate, envy and jealousy.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

anything that says Yes to life is automatically saying No to war.

Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.-

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

you can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Take that, nattering nabobs of negativity!

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

songs of unreasonable joy.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Let your words and actions be seasoned with encouragement so others are stronger after being with you.

We have to have HOPE, which is Confident Expectation!

Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels.

I woke up this morning as I do every morning, with an attitude of gratitude.

Whatever's happened to you during the day, as long as you got a nice pillowcase for your head at night, you'll be all right. You got yourself a place to lay your head, Honor Haymaker. Things are lookin' up.

The beauty of this girl standing behind him was not just physical, though. It seemed to O that she was lit from within by something most kids either did not have or hid deep inside: soul. He thought no one could ever hate her, and that was rare in this world. She was there to make things better.

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

just kept hoping that if I believed something hard enough, it might actually come true.

Promise yourself," she said that last time we met, "promise that you'll have a great life, no matter what happens.

The trouble with the world is that you forget that there are good people in it.