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Saying a prayer can be as simple as thinking positive thoughts about someone—it’s not an act that needs to be tied to any particular religion or system of beliefs. I can say a prayer just by saying “I wish you peace” after someone becomes angry with me for something trivial; I can say a prayer for the woman who is always cheerful (or gloomy) at the store where I shop by thinking “I wish you all the best in life—good health, good relationships, and all of your true needs fulfilled.” Of course, if you want to pray to God in the form in which you conceive of God, that’s fine, too—and your prayer will not be wasted. Think about it. Is the world a better place when you walk away from someone either forgetting them immediately or thinking negative thoughts about them? This world of ours can use all the positive thoughts we can contribute to it, and our simple and heartfelt prayers are some of the most positive thoughts we can create and share. And they affect us as much as, if not more than, they affect the objects of our prayers.
— Tom Walsh, Just for Today, The Expanded Edition
Patience is the glue that binds hard work and faith.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can do it", "you can make it" "it's possible" but when you tell yourself always " I can't make it", it's your choice that rules everything!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
...once you have resolved to embrace the ideology of positive thinking, you will find a way to interpret virtually any eventuality as a justification for thinking positively. You need never spend time considering how your actions might go wrong.
— Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.
— Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Our Positivity repels the external negative energy and attract the positive energy.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open The Windows: To the World around You
A sense of accomplishment Ahh yes. There's just (Nothing like it) Today, KNOW You can make it happen like no other. It's the Truth. Lean into the direction of your dreams today. Everything is brewing for you, all that you want is on the brink of complete overflow. Get out of your own way and Allow the overflow to happen.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, How to Write High Quality Articles In Half the Time
If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time,” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.
— Daniel Willey
I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
In fact, if you're wondering if I expect miracles---the answer is yes. Even when they don't seem to happen, I keep believing in them. Even when I stop believing in them, I'll always start again. Because if you don't have hope, what's left? I believe. And maybe they'll happen in a way I never saw coming--they usually do. Or maybe I'll find the way to make them happen myself. But ether way--I expect miracles.
— Jennifer DeLucy
People tell you that you cannot, because they do not.
— Tim Fargo
Like food is to the body, self-talk is to the mind. Don't let any junk thoughts repeat in your head.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgmentand shining in its endless beauty.
— Paul Ferrini
Stop looking for that perfect person, look at the positive sides of who you know and you wil find unexpected perfection.
— João Matos
If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up--no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything.
— Millicent Ashby
If you are positive, you'll see opportunities instead of obstacles.
— Widad Akreyi
Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to “protect” you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.
— Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life.
— Kaiden Blake
Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..
— Sarvesh Jain
Positive thinking,' he would say, 'is also very important.
— Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People
Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
I believe and therefore I am.
— Truth Devour
Never abbreviate your dreams. Only short-hand people always do that. Their punishment is that they can't stretch far, further and forward into the future. Dream only big dreams!
— Israelmore Ayivor
The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!
— Raven Moore
If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.
— Christine Upton
The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.
— Orison Swett Marden, How to Get What You Want
Life is made of peaks & troughs. If you don’t like going up and down then you must live your life standing in one spot.
— Alex Zar
I don't mind being around those who need help and want to be helped, but I don't like to be around those who are unhappy and negative all of time,because they drain you down.
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.
— Red Tash, Troll Or Derby
Go be who you were meant to be, explore your mind, understand you are free.
— Goodmorning Gorgeous
Aspire to be who you most admire
— Deborah A. Carr
Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact.But she loves God and she loves to dance…and she’s her own “Better Half.”The bravest woman I know?She is the reason I do what I do.She is The Single Woman.She’s me…and she’s you.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.
— Israelmore Ayivor
If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!
— Tanya Masse
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life? It might be a good move to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager. And at the workplace, while it's probably advisable to detect and terminate those who show signs of becoming mass killers, there are other annoying people who might actually have something useful to say: the financial officer who keeps worrying about the bank's subprime mortgage exposure or the auto executive who questions the company's overinvestment in SUVs and trucks. Purge everyone who 'brings you down,' and you risk being very lonely, or, what is worse, cut off from reality.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively... well where is the happiness?
— Gloria Tesch
The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.
— Mark W. Boyer
Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or Pain, the Choice is thine.
— R.v.m.
In order for someone to be 100% content, they must first believe it to be so.
— Mark W. Boyer
The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
— Nino Gruettke, BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
In your life never become an agent of Negativity
—  Unknowingly if you act negative to positive pursuits... you unnecessarily accumulate Karmic bondage... Then why act negative ?
You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
We can let go of the person or love or friendship without letting go of the lesson.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Breakups have a way of shaking us awake and helping us see what we really want vs. what we are willing to settle for.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right for you, no matter how great they might look on paper. When it’s right for you, you will know. And when it’s not – it’s time to go.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Red flags are moments of hesitation that determine our destination.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
That’s the thing about fear. It can only hang around until faith enters the room, then it’s forced to flee.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Not everyone has to ride off into the sunset with a man. Some of us just want a tan.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “single” about a single mom.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Next time you hit a speed bump otherwise known as the age-old question “Why are you still single?” look ’em in the eye and say: “Because I’m too fabulous to settle.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You’ve gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Here’s a little secret that’s going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It’s better to be a “misfit” than a “one-size-fits-all”!
— Mandy Hale
When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You have a destiny and a purpose that no one else on this earth can fulfill…and you have traveled a unique journey that has equipped you along the way with the tools you need to carry it out.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Single is a choice, just like Married is.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Don't be afraid to be who you are, no matter who that person might be.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
A positive attitude turns "I can't & I won't," into "I have & I WILL!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Single ladies, we are not Damsels in Distress…we are Divas that Impress!
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Happily Single is permission to CHOOSE your life rather than having it handed to you, and it’s living life on your own terms instead of those that are expected of you.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Not everything in life has to be about finding “The One.” Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.
— Mandy Hale
Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?
— Mandy Hale, I've Never Been to Vegas, but My Luggage Has: Mishaps and Miracles on the Road to Happily Ever After
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
— Napoleon Hill
Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life.
— Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn’t need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right—and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.
— Gary   Hopkins
Don't let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your health through new found empowerment- mind, body, and spirit.
— SupaNova Slom
Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.
— Erik Tomblin
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.
— Larry Dossey, Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.
— Millicent Ashby
Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thoughts, Cool words and Clear actions are the impressions that appeal to success.
— Israelmore Ayivor
In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.
— Donna Fargo
With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.
— Edward de Bono, Handbook for the Positive Revolution
Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.
— Erik Tomblin
The author, then in the final stage as a candidate for Delta Force, was asked by the unit's foreboding colonel what he thought of the evaluation's Stress Week. He responded that he was waiting for it to begin, reasoning that, used to responsibility for others while leading a platoon, he only had himself to worry about. However hard the trial, he got four meals a day, nobody shot at, him, and the weather was pleasant.
— Eric Haney, Inside Delta Force
Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening, followed with intentional action - will clear the path for your miracles.
— Sumner Davenport
A year from today, it will be Good if your life is positively different, but GREAT if your life has made a positive difference on others
— Fela Durotoye
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
— William Arthur Ward
When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
— Roopleen
Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
— Roopleen
If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of "I think I'm a loser," try "I definitely am a loser." Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don't even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?
— Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...
Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge
—  wisdom is applying that knowledge.
Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.
— Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.
— Roopleen
When you change what you believe, you change what you do... which changes what you get.
— Odille Rault
Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.
— Roopleen
Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.
— Roopleen
To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
— Roopleen
There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.
— Roopleen
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
— Joe  Peterson, Help Me Live... As I Die, Cancer vs. the Power of Love
Positivity is like harmonics and patterns. Create positivity in your life, and allow it to interfere with more positivity. Allow that positivity to vibrate alongside more paths. The end result, is a beautiful day. However, why stop there? There is a reason that positivity parallels harmonics and patterns, so keep it going towards dream's end. If you feel like there isn't enough positivity in your life to get your day started, don't worry, I have plenty, so you can take some of mine. Infinity minus 1 is still infinity, so take some positivity from me, bathe in it, sing with it, and know that today, there is success within your value -- for you were able to wake up and treasure another day.
— Lionel Suggs
Positive thinking is great, if you'll take action.
— Guy Harduf
It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.
— Roopleen
She silently thanked God for creating such a beautiful universe where anything was possible even when it seemed impossible.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, God Loves You. -Chester Blue
Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way
— Carl Henegan
The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.
— Sakshi Chetana, Laughing Buddha
how many people never see how beautiful the sky is at night because they simply don’t take the time to look up?
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, God Loves You. -Chester Blue
When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket!
— Jennifer O'Neill, Soul DNA: Your Spiritual Genetic Code Defines Your Purpose
Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they’d been disappointed too many times in life and just didn’t have the courage to keep hoping things would change
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, God Loves You. -Chester Blue
I know that when things are at their worst, something better is just around the corner if we just put one foot in front of the other and keep moving forward.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, God Loves You. -Chester Blue
And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on.
— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, God Loves You. -Chester Blue
Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses.
— Jamie Anne Richardson
If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.
— Orrin Woodward
Hope abides; therefore I abide.Countless frustrations have not cowed me.I am still alive, vibrant with life.The black cloud will disappear,The morning sun will appear once againIn all its supernal glory.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.
— Harry Papas
I began to realize how important it is to be able to know your gifts and dreams, to live in the moment, to work less hard and to let things flow. I embraced the fact that worry never is a good thing. I learned that I could control my thoughts, which then affects my feelings and the quality of my life.
— Sheri Kaye Hoff
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.
— Britt Skrabanek
Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City
— Jemima Pett
Ponder the affirmative.
— Loretta Boyer McClellan
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
— Woody Allen
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
— George Carlin
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves. No matter what corruption they're taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which they cannot perform for any motive but their own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! - an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exultation, only on the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces them to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and accept their real ego as their standard of value. They will always be attracted to the person who reflects their deepest vision of themselves, the person whose surrender permits them to experience - or to fake - a sense of self-esteem .. Love is our response to our highest values - and can be nothing else.
— Ayn Rand
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
— Charles Bukowski
Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.
— Woody Allen
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Sex is an emotion in motion.
— Mae West
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
— Woody Allen
Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
— Woody Allen
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
— George Bernard Shaw
Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
— Barbara Bush
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
— Russell Brand
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
— Joan Rivers
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
— Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Sick and perverted always appeals to me.
— Madonna
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
— Dorothy Parker
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
— Dorothy Parker
I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong.
— Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
— Woody Allen
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys
—  it's more sanitary.
If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!
— Craig Ferguson
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin  Henry Miller, 1932-1953
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
— Lily Tomlin
I want you to spend the night,” you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, “Let’s have sex,” or “Let’s go to my place,” or even “I really want you,” I’m not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time.""I'll make sure you're having a good time, and that you're okay with everything. I just won't be well mannered about it.
— Samantha Young, On Dublin Street
No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to
— Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
— Woody Allen
Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions
—  bad sex is about blocked emotions.
You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.
— Richard Pryor
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
— Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
You're just jealous.""Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.
— Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite
jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. “We are no longer even, Elena. You’re now in debt.”“You can deduct it from my slow and painful death.
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is why we must journey on, despite all trials and tribulations! Not for me and least of all for the poor cheerleader in question, but for my parents and indeed for all immigrants who came to his great nation in what they themselves could never have: CHEERLEADER SEX.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
— Marquis de Sade, Aline et Valcour
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
— Henry Miller
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
— George Burns
Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.
— Mary B. Morrison
A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise
— Jeaniene Frost, First Drop of Crimson
If a man is highly sexed he's virile. If a woman is, she's a nymphomaniac. With them it's power but with us it's a disease! Even the act of sex is called penetration! Why don't they call it enclosure?
— Gemma Hatchback
The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dang
— Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape
Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.
— Woody Allen
I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A.
— Kresley Cole, Dreams of a Dark Warrior
What kind of motel sells condoms?" "My favorite kind of motel?
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin
I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard.""You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner
— Lisa Kleypas, Smooth Talking Stranger
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
— Woody Allen
So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?
— Sylvia Day, Reflected in You
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
— John Barrymore
That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything?
— Emily Maguire, Taming the Beast
There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she’d be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now.See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.
— Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else
—  they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
Sex pretty much cures everything.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about.
— Garrison Keillor
Men who refuse to use condoms do not deserve to be fucked by anyone but other men who refuse to use condoms.
— Inga Muscio
Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.
— Clark Zlotchew
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
— G.K. Chesterton
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
— George Burns
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
— Alejandra Pizarnik
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
— Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game -it was corpse fucking corpse. Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience down through the centuries. Some morals tended to keep people slaves in factories, in churches and true to the State. Other morals simply made good sense. It was like a garden filled with poisoned fruit and good fruit. You had to know which to pick and eat, which to leave alone.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.
— Allan Sherman
And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.
— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
You know how it is - some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all.
— Sylvia Day, Bared to You
The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.
— Mel Brooks