You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.
Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
[I'm] almost positive there is no God.
When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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.
Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.
You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.