Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.
Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.
I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.
Believe that you are what you want to be.
Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way of finding those who put forth their best even when their situation seems bleak.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward.
I think we each have a personal sweet spot as well. It's the state of mind in which we experience the most joy and satisfaction in being ourselves. And from that place of pleasure and joy in being ourselves, energy arises to flow out into our day bringing with it the depth and resonance of our own beingness, bringing with it blessing.
