May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Accept and Love All of Life
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Live and work but do not forget to play,
to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Today's affirmation:
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Radiate Your Happiness to the World
Say NO to Stress
Finding Joy
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Monday, January 8, 2024
We Create Our Own Happiness
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Live and work but do not forget to play,
to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Today's affirmation:
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Radiate Your Happiness to the World
Say NO to Stress
Finding Joy
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Happiness Depends Upon Ourselves
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Live and work but do not forget to play,
to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Today's affirmation:
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Radiate Your Happiness to the World
Say NO to Stress
Finding Joy
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
A Positive Attitude Increases Happiness
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Live and work but do not forget to play,
to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Today's affirmation:
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Secret of Happiness
Radiate Your Happiness to the World
Say NO to Stress
Finding Joy
Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Stay Positive, Count Your Blessings
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
- Helen Keller
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative.
- Johnny Mercer
Further reading: Self Pity
Set Goals - Take Action
Be Positive
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Count Your Blessings
Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization
that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Be Grateful for All of Life:
Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life.
Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day,
our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie - from 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Further reading: Life Really Is Good
A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving
Thank You God
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Sunday, November 2, 2014
A Month of Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization
that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Be Grateful for All of Life:
Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life.
Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day,
our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie - from 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Affirmation:
I commit the whole month of November to expressing gratitude and thanksgiving.
Further reading: A List of Gratitudes - a Thanksgiving
Life Really Is Good
Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude
Thank You God
Celebrating Rainbows and Butterflies - the Small Miracles of Our Life
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Is your glass of life half empty? Or half full?
Keep a grateful journal.
Every night, list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Is your glass of life
half empty?
Or half full?
Seeing my glass of life as mostly full
triggers an amazing cycle of transformation
Appreciation for the abundance of life incites gratitude -
which brings on that warm comfortable
feeling of joy and satisfaction with life.
Gratitude for abundance also creates increasing abundance.
Being truly grateful for the abundance that
is now in my life causes an ever greater abundance
to flow in my direction.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Think Positive
Zero-Based Gratitude
Accentuate the Positive
How to be Positive Around Negative People
The Bright Side
Attitude is Everything
Positivity
Think Positive, Act Positive, Believe Positive
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Accentuate the Positive
Accentuate the positive. Eliminate the negative.
- Johnny Mercer
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To stay positive, think positive, act positive, and believe positive.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: How to Think Positive
The Bright Side
Choose Your Attitude
See the Good in Life
Be the Melody
Positivity
Stay Positive
Positive Attitude
Friday, August 30, 2013
The Bright Side
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Anonymous proverb
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey
Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that
you can stay on the bright side of things until the
bright side actually comes along.
- Allen Klein
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Be Grateful for All of Life:
Each of us has been infinitely blessed - beginning with the gift of life.
Whatever may appear to be missing or broken on any particular day,
our glass is not half full, it is 99.9% full.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie - from 7 Secrets for a Happy Life
Further reading: Anne Frank - Optimism among Suffering
Zero-Based Gratitude
Bad Job, Tough Times
How To Cope When Bad Things Happen
Be Grateful
Be Positive
Optimism
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Be the Melody
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Further reading: How to Build Self Esteem and Self Confidence
How to Feel Good About Yourself
How to Keep a Positive Attitude Around Negative People
Positive Words
Think Positive Quotes
Positive Quotes about Change
Positive Thoughts
Positive Outlook Quotes
Positive Sayings
Monday, March 12, 2012
Positive
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Further reading: Overcome Being Negative
How to Cope With Life
Play to win, but be a good loser
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Positivity
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- jlh
Further reading: How to Stay Positive
How to Find Yourself
How to Get Motivated
Positive Quotes
More Positive Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Courage Quotes
Fear Quotes
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Think Positive, Act Positive, Believe Positive
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford
To stay positive, think positive, act positive, and believe positive.
Read my article How to Stay Positive
www.dreamthisday.com/how-to-stay-positive
Reduce your stress and increase the joy you find in everyday life with my book 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love.
www.dreamthisday.com/secrets-life-love
Further reading: How to Move On and Let Go
How to be Positive Around Negative People
Positive Quotes
Positive Thinking Quotes
Positive Affirmations
Positive Attitude Sayings
Amazing Quotes to Live By
Life Purpose Quotes
Friday, January 16, 2009
Bertha Calloway: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (Founder of the Great Plains Black Museum)