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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

“True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.”

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

“To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”