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“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
- Helen Keller
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"Positivity is the world’s most underutilized, naturally occurring resource available to fuel success and forward progress."
— Michelle Gielan, Broadcasting Happiness
"I keep my mind so busy thinking about what I wish to accomplish that there is no room in it for thinking about things I don’t want."
— Henry Ford
"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
"Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions."
- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
"Essentially, all optimism strategies involve the exercise of construing the world with a more positive and charitable perspective, and many entail considering the silver lining in the cloud, identifying the door that opens as a result of one that has closed."
- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."
- Corrie ten Boom
“Trust that whatever is happening to you is actually happening for you. Trust that every single obstacle you face is providing you with a greater opportunity you would not have otherwise had.”
- Darrin Donnelly
“Positivity is like a radar in search of solutions to problems. Thus, positive thinkers can see solutions, where negative people see only problems.”
- Tom Corley, Rich Habits: The Daily Habits of Successful Individuals
"It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive."
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage
"Just because the sky is cloudy doesn’t mean there’s no sun. Trust that things turn out."
- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits
“Expecting positive outcomes actually makes them more likely to arise.”
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage
"Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it."
- Marcia Wieder
“Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual. Be brave, set no limits on the workings of your imagination. Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. You will never be the same.”
- Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."
- Seth Godin
“More than any other change, ending your habit of worrying will create the single biggest positive impact in your life.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
“It is a truism that how you think - about yourself, your world, and other people - is more important to your happiness than the objective circumstances of your life.”
- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
“If you don’t believe it will happen, it is almost guaranteed that it won’t. You simply cannot achieve a goal that you do not believe you can achieve.”
- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith
“Being optimistic involves a choice about how you see the world.”
- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky