Quotes on Positive Thinking

The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

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.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

People only see what they are prepared to see.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.