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Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Positive thinking breeds success.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

Positive thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe.

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine.

Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

The therapy has been on and off, but I'll always go. I notice when I don't go, I start creating bad habits for myself. It's up to me to put in the effort. And I definitely watch The Secret a lot. That's part of my therapy: positive thinking. Really seeing yourself having everything you want, and feeling the emotion of having that. I did that about a Grammy. When The Secret came out, I was saying, "I'm going to win a Grammy." And I went there with my hypnosis and believing, really feeling what it would be like to have one.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.