Quotes about Positivity

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Heavy thoughts don't have to cloud your day. You have good choices for how to lift yourself out of them.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

If we make happiness our primary goal instead of our secondary goal, then we easily accomplish everything else we desire.

You will attract people with all six of these qualities—the extremely positive qualities because you may not feel that you deserve them and the extremely negative ones because you refuse to acknowledge their presence in your life. Once you can see yourself in others, it will become much easier to connect with them, and through that connection to discover unity consciousness. The door to synchrodestiny will open. Such is the power of the mirror of relationship.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

You cannot be happy if your primary identity is that of a victim, even if you really are one.

Yes, there is a "secret to happiness"—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.