positive thinking
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An optimist is the human
personification of
spring.
Susan J. Bissonette |
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I
am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from
nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic
is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet
moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith
in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and
could not give myself up to despair.
Nelson
Mandela
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The
essence of optimism is that it takes no account
of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,
of vitality and hope where others have resigned;
it enables a person to hold his or her head high, to claim the
future for him or herself and not to abandon it to the enemy.
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
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I
am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only
the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my
world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
Alice
Potter
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One
of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay
to
get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism
a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille
Ball
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I am an
optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston
Churchill
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In this world, the optimists have it, not
because they are always right,
but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they
are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction,
improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.
David Landes
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People
have been wonderful
to me in the good times
and the
bad,
and I've come to believe
that you do indeed reap
what you sow. For those who
constantly
gripe about life,
I turn
and walk away. For those
who speak
negatively about
people
behind their backs, I move on.
Bob
Losure
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Be
so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk
health,
happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your
friends
feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of
everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only
the best.
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about
your won.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements
of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much
time improving yourself
that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Christian
D. Larsen
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Even
if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A
pessimist is one who makes difficulties of opportunities
and
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of difficulties.
Harry S.
Truman |
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Optimism
is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things
and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou
Retton |
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is
also
the foundation of courage and true progress.
Lloyd Alexander
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Optimism
means expecting
the best, but confidence
means knowing how
to handle the worst.
Never make a move if
you are merely optimistic.
Zurich
Axiom
Flowers
grow out
of darker moments.
Corita
Kent
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The
optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Khalil
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I
have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it
through one door, I'll go through another door--or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come
no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath
Tagore
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Optimism is
the one quality more associated
with success and happiness than any other.
Brian Tracy
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An optimist is a person who believes a housefly
is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean |
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I am an
optimist. . . I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our
world;
there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to
see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world,
you will spend your time better.
Tom Hiddleston |
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Everybody
avoids the company of those who are always grumbling, who are
full of "ifs" and "buts," and "I told you
so's." We like the people who always
look toward the sun, whether it shines or not. It is the
cheerful, hopeful people
we go to for sympathy and assistance; not the carping, gloomy
critics,--who always
think it is going to rain, and that we are going to have a
terribly hot summer,
or a fearful thunder-storm, or who are forever complaining of hard
times and
their hard lot. It is the bright, cheerful, hopeful,
contented people who makes
their ways, who are respected and admired.
Gloom and depression not only take much out of life, but detract
greatly
from the chances of winning success. It is the bright and
cheerful
spirit that wins the final triumph.
Orison Swett Marden |
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There
is an optimism which nobly anticipates the
eventual triumph of great
moral lows, and there is
an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
Agnes
Repplier
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What choices are you making in your perception of
the events around you?
We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of
pessimism in our
culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism.
Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours.
Show some extra grace on the
freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who
is in your way.
Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know.
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces
quality in our culture
and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to
individual acts of
grace. What's your choice?
Jennifer James
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To
the question of whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer
that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are
optimistic.
Albert Schweitzer |
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True
optimism has no connection whatever with overindulgent judgments
of any kind. It consists of conceiving and willing the ideal, as
this is inspired
by profound and self-consistent affirmation of life and of the
world.
Albert
Schweitzer
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Optimism
and humor are the grease and glue of life.
Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Philip Butler
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Those with an optimistic outlook get hit with the same problems
as anyone else, but they see opportunity where others see inconvenience.
Deborah K. Heisz
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Look
for something positive in each day, even if
some days you have to look a little harder.
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Pessimists dismiss optimism as ungrounded and unrealistic.
And while it is true
that optimists, by definition, have high hopes and lofty dreams, these hopes and
dreams can become self-fulfilling prophecies: Over time they can become real.
A pessimistic outlook makes it more likely that the future will turn out gloomy;
a hopeful disposition is likely to bring about success and well-being.
If optimism
and hope are grounded, they can improve the quality of our relationships, bring
about success at work, help us overcome adversity, and provide an important
foundation for making our dreams come true. To a great extent, my expectations
of myself or others, and of situations, determine my reality.
Tal Ben-Shahar
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