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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Journey into the beautiful dream that is life...the end is only the beginning.
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
Make me immortal with a kiss.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
Earth angels help others remember who they are.
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.
You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!
There is no such thing as no chance.
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
"When we contemplate the duration of the universe, we see it limited to the present moment, which is nothing more but the point which separates two infinities of time. The past and the future are as meaningless as if they did not exist. Is anyone more misguided than the man who barters an eternal future for a moment which passes quicker than the blink of an eye?."
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
If you're lucky enough to get old, I think you should celebrate it.
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.
if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.
It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
I see the world at peace. If we can hold that thought, that thought has a power. The thought is witnessing a reality of peace in the world. By witnessing the possibility that it can take place and holding it in my consciousness, then that becomes something that is transmitting into the world. It's like a seed of peace that I'm planting from my consciousness into the world.
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.
There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
My hope is that God will have changed people's lives through me for the better.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.
To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.