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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
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 cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.
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.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.
It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.
If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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.
A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive and how you perform NOW. It's not about achieving something in time. It's rather about the quality of choices you are making in this moment - what you choose to perceive, feel, and do. It's about getting the most out of your experience.
I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.
I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
People like to be around those who give off positive energy.
Never mistake motion for action.
The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.
It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
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.
It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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.
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.
When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.
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!
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.
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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.
An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).
When your life is working there will be an absence of drama
If you don't give up, you still have a chance.
I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.
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.
There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds.
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.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.
I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with great people. When I think about all the great things and people I have had in my life, that gives me confidence.
if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
A person hears only what they understand.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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.
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
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.
I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
I cannot be what I am not.
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.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
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.
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
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 never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.
Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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.
By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
Life isn't a dress rehearsal
I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
