You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.
The absence of disease is not health.
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
Speech is the mirror of action.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
I do not say anything from jealousy.
I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.