Positive Conatations

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I created this topic to highllight the positive side of things......We have such negative things around us and sometimes, it's ourselves that can be our worst enemy. The power of the mind is a wonderful thing.... that's why it's a good thing to have a topic that reminds us each day..... what people can bring....by a simple words that can bring a smile to a rainy day.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Good Positive Thoughts !

In order to create good relationships -

* With your mind, THINK ABOUT what you have to learn from others.

* With your eyes, LOOK INTO the good qualities of others.

* With your words, RECOGNIZE, value and APPRECIATE their accomplishments,

* With your actions, COOPERATE and do something for others.

~ Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too - Herbert Samuels

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause - Phillip Gribble

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light - Albert Schweitzer

Be concerned more with HOW YOU LIVE, than with how long.

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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it - Hans Selye

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best - Hakeem Olajuwon

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip - Daniel L. Reardon

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere - Steve Goodier

* You are what you are today, because of the decisions and the choices YOU made yesterday - Revt. Wayne Goonie

* They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel - Carl W. Buechner

* The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships - Anthony Robbins

* The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us - Marianne Williamson

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Happy

People are as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think - Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it - Bernard Meltzer

No man is a failure who is enjoying life - William Feather

* You can't control the contour of your face, but you can control its expression.

* Control Your Thoughts and Be Happy

* As soon as you accept the idea that you are in control of your thoughts you will be able to create your own happiness. - Lucy MacDonald

* Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible - Norman Vincent Peale

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* "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

* “She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions”

* "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength - Sigmund Freud"

* "The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment"

* There is no accomplishment in life better than a peace of mind and a happy home - Blessing Onuoha

* Why worry about tomorrow and spoil today, when joy today will bring forth a better memory for tomorrow - Ethan Daniel

* Quite often we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves - Akbarali H. Jetha

* Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read - Mark Twain

* When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself - Earl Nightingal

* You can measure a man how long, it takes to discourage him.

* The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike.
It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it - Helen Keller

* Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life - Michael Leboeuf

* The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in - Morrie Schwartz

* To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see - Helen Keller

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"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.”

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours”

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

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“It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.”

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

“Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”

“That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”

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"There would be nothing to frighten you, if you refused to be afraid" - Gandhi

"Love What You Do. Do What You Love" -Wayne Dyer

"It's not what happens to you. It's what you do about it" - W. Mitchell

"The brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy" - Carl Sagan.

"Better to do something imperfectly, than to do nothing flawlessly" -Robert H. Schuller

"At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want"- Lao-tzu.

"When you get to the place where you would worry. Stop and pray." - Edgar Cayce.

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill.

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” - Ralph Marston

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else” - Winston Churchill

“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” - William James

"Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults”

“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong...Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.”

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs

"Our lives teach us who we are. " - Salman Rushdie.

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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"- Franklin D. Roosevelt.

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him" - Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi.

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks" - Phillips Brooks

"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation" - Mike Todd

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. " - Charles Swindoll.

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James.

"It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook." - James Keller

"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated." - Leland Bartlett.

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Adams Keller

"We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water." - Sister Busche.

"The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company . . . a church . . . a home. " - Charles Swindoll.

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude. "- Scott Hamilton.

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein.

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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on"- Franklin D. Roosevelt.

"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him" - Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi.

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks" - Phillips Brooks.

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." - Helen Keller.

"Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger." - Herbert Hoover

"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas A. Edison.

"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." - Josh Billings

"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. "

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap." - William Bennett.