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It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.

Positive thinking breeds success.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

Positive thoughts keep you in harmony with the universe.

Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.

The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine.

Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

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

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.