Positive Quotes - Page 5

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.

Anonymous

God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.

Teresa of Avila.

After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Helen Gurley Brown

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Zachary T. Bercovitz

A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.

Margaret Deland

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

Jerry Augustine

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Give me good health and I'll take care of the rest.

You can promote your healing by your thinking.

James E. Sweeney

Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

Shirley Maclaine

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

Thomas A. Buckner

Be careful of your thoughts they may become words at any moment.

The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Honoré de Balzac

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

All happiness is in the mind.

Anonymous

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

Henry B. Wilson

Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think it's going to rain it will.

As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Lane Allen

God will help you if you try and you can if you think you can.

Anna Delaney Peale

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Marion Crawford

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James A. Farley

As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

Henry H. Buckley

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Ayn Rand

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

George Matthew Adams

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen wind and weather permitting.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

If you are going to think black think positive about it. Don't think down on it or think it is something in your way. And this way when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is everybody will hear you.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

Federico Fellini

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Lane Allen

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be you will fall remain or rise with your thoughts your vision your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen

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