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“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”

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Book:Power Through Constructive Thinking

Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.”

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Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!”

Inspirational Mind Looks Heart Eye Impossible Optimism Encouragement Shoulders Look Up Flash Nothing Is Impossible

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.”

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Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.”

Mind States Effort Optimism Enthusiasm State Of Mind

Author:Bill Vaughan

“And uh, so, I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative. And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by saying, "A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse." I'm an optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person.”

“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”

“There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.”

Ifs Want Mind Humans May Light Taken Optimism Busy Human Mind Pessimism Woe Consolation Disagreeable

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

“Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!”

Mind Can Do Optimism Placebo Lollipop

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.”

Mind Important Self Optimism Medical Self Confidence Peace Of Mind Good Health Medical Science

Author:Dalai Lama

“The Control movie is not about suicide, it's not about epilepsy, it's not about everything else, but it's about an individual who was thinking out of the box and took his own passion and created music. His negativity and whatever else, he bottled them up and spilled them out onto his world of music. I think a sense of hope comes from the end of the movie, in my mind. Some people come out of the movie and think, 'That's the saddest thing I've ever seen,' and others come out and think, 'God, there's optimism.'”

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Author:Orian Williams

“Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”

“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”

Mind Believe Belief Easier Optimism Deny Affirmative Overcoming Doubt

Book:Writings: The light of day

Source: Writings: The light of day

“People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.”

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Book:THE MAGIC

Source: THE MAGIC

“I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.”

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Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

Mind Moments Optimism Pessimism Anticipation Employed Recollection

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.”

“The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

“Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.”

“If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.”

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“Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.”

Mind Behavior Optimism Mind Set Optimism In Life

Book:The Ten Things You Can't Say In America

Source: The Ten Things You Can't Say In America

“You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.”

Needs Mind Spirit Creative Possibility Optimism Creative Spirit

Book:Yanni in Words

Source: Yanni in Words

“It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of poverty, that your wealth is a gift. It is because the world is so unfriendly, that your smile is a gift. It is because the world is so full of war, that your peace of mind is a gift. It is because the world is in such despair, that your hope and optimism is a gift. It is because the world is so afraid, that your love is a gift.”

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Book:Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

“Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.”

Thinking Mind Helping Problem Past Possibility Inspire Optimism

Author:Price Pritchett

“We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.”

Source: A Personal Record

“The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.”

Mind Healthy Optimism Healthy Mind

Book:Crime and Mr. Campion

Source: Crime and Mr. Campion

“Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.”

Mind Water Optimism Hot Noses Cheerful Frame Of Mind Hot Water

Author:Earl Weaver

“Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.”

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Book:Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Source: Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is some thing in them.”

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Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.”

Source: The Light in the Heart

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”

“Because our minds are problem-solving machines, we are inclined to focus on the undesirable, usually at the expense of the desirable.”

Mind Problem Gratitude Depression Optimism Misery Unhappiness Pessimism Problems Count Your Blessings

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An untrained mind is way less inclined to count your blessings than it is inclined to count your curses.”

Mind Blessing Optimism Curse Pessimism Blessings Count Your Blessings Curses Trained Untrained

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life presents innumerable possibilities for love, friendship, compassion, and self-fulfillment, but we must be willing to give in order to receive. Persistence, sacrifice, a quest for knowledge, along with acquaintance with our true self is essential in order to achieve our dreams. Panic, fear, worry, doubt, anger, and a negative attitude are the biggest impediments to self-realization. The most important battle we undertake in life is not with other people; rather it takes place in the human mind.”

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls