“Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.” IfsFeelsHeartFeelingsEmotionImpossibleEventsKeysGratitudeNegativeAbundanceUngratefulThoughts And FeelingsKey To HappinessNegative EmotionsComplete Life Author:Vishen Lakhiani
“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.” ThinkingMeanPersonsImportantEndsLightChristianEvilVirtueClearEventsEgoNegativeIdealsHatredPlantCharitySeedsOpeningChristian LifeGod LoveWeedIntensityHis LoveArrivalsAsceticismPenanceMortificationPull UpsFerocityImportant Events Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.” MenMindDoeCharacterFactsLawGivenResultsPrinciplesSupportDoubtEventsNegativeIntellectAffirmativeInsufficiencyFuture Events Book:Guide for the perplexed Source: Guide for the perplexed
“And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.” FeelsMadeHappensHappenedEventsLike YouDegreesNegativeCoincidence Book:The Evolution of Mara Dyer Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.” ProblemScienceSocialNaturalConditionsEventsLessonsNegativePressesInstancePrimeRelativitySocial ScienceNatural ScienceCorrelation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.” WayChildrenCertainEnergyGrowthChallengesWalksDealsSituationStageEventsAchievementAnxietyAdultsNegativeMirrorsCrisisResponseInstanceMasteryNew LifeFeedbackPredictableCopingSmall ChildNew ChallengesRegressionNew SituationsNew Energy Author:T. Berry Brazelton
“The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure is an event - it is not a person. Another way is to understand that your child might make a mistake, but the child is not a mistake” WayChildrenPersonsMightRememberMistakeEventsSolutionsNegativeOur ChildrenOne WayYour ChildrenAnother Way Author:Zig Ziglar
“Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.” SufferingEventsSelf EsteemNegativeStressEsteemOur ThoughtsNegative Thoughts Author:Martha Beck
“I seem to have made my friends proud of me/proud to know me. I also feel I've learned and grown a lot even in this short time, and this event has given me a lot of opportunity to continue doing so. Obviously there were a lot of negative reactions, but they seem to have overall little relevance to my life.” KnowsFeelsLittlesMadeSeemsOpportunityGivenEventsProudMy FriendsNegativeReactionsI've LearnedKnow MeRelevanceShort TimeProud Of MeNegative Reactions Author:Marie Calloway
“If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite direction. Instead of "welcoming" we have "rejecting," instead of "global" we tend to see events that are "local" and so forth.” IfsBelieveTodaySocialGroupsEventsTomorrowNegativeOppositesMoodLocalsWelcomeBiasRejecting Author:John L. Casti