Quotes about Positivity

The way I see it, there are just two things we need to know: The universe has our back. Everything is going to turn out okay.

Principle 1 - Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

To cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, remember that Rule 2 is: Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks

For life is too short to be little.

encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

but a simple smile takes little effort—and the rewards can be astonishing.

They sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.