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Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualization techniques.

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

I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

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

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 matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

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.

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 breeds success.