A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Wearing a real corset doesn't make you look thin! It just makes you look like you're going to pass out! Also it doesn't actually shape your body in any positive way.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.
I definitely feel moved and affected after interviews, but not in a way that's anything other than positive. There are moments that make me want to cry, but not in any way I can't handle.
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice. The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole. The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it. And if it does not. . . well, a true heroine or hero does not require it.
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.
If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.