When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.
Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.
Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.
If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.
