
This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen it before.
- Topic: Affirmation, Attitude, Gratitude, Optimism, Thinking
- Location: Hawaii, Lanai
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
› Maya Angelou
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
› Maya Angelou
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
› Maya Angelou
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
› James Allen
Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value.
› Albert Schweitzer
I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.
› Mohandas Gandhi
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
› Plutarch
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
› William James
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
› Kahlil Gibran
Aloha is free.
› Hawaiin Proverb
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
› James Allen
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
› Maya Angelou
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.
› James Allen
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
› John F. Kennedy
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
› Mark Twain
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
› Eckhart Tolle
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
› Friedrich Nietzsche
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
› Alan Cohen
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
› Irish Proverb
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
› Rumi
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
› G. K Chesterton
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
› Shakti Gawain
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
› Winston Churchill
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
› Kahlil Gibran
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
› William Arthur Ward
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
› Buddha
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
› Mark Twain
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
› Mary Baker Eddy
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
› Walter Bagehot
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
› Dale Carnegie
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
› Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
› George Orwell
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
› Frida Kahlo
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
› Seneca
