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If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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