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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 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 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 thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe.

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

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Today I will do something just for the fun of it. I will find something to do that's just for me and I won't worry about what I should be doing. I will learn how to make myself feel good and enjoy life to the fullest.

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 are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

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

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine