Life is what you make of it...

Today's Positive Thoughts come from a wide range of people, and are on many different subjects. The general theme I'd say is our thoughts make us who we are and determine what we get out of life. Sometimes it's hard to see this when we are in a bad place, but it's important to remember that we can't always control what life gives us, we CAN control how we respond to what we get. From there, we can often turn life around, and find a more positive direction.
I wish you all peace and love and happiness this day and always.
-Diane



The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but seeing with new eyes.

–Marcel Proust


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

-Rose Franken


Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

-Louise L. Hay


The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are.

-Lynn Andrews


We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

–Gandhi


Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.

-Edward Tenner


The habit of happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest for creating things new.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery


You can not be thankful and unhappy at the same time.

-Anonymous


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

-Marcus Aurelius


Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-Woody Allen


Fall seven times, stand up eight.

-Japanese Proverb


Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

-Emile Coue'


Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

-Brian Dyson


Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

-Alice Walker


One forgives to the degree that one loves.

-La Rochefoucald


The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. –Frank Lloyd Wright


Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

-John MacNaughton


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

-Benjamin Disraeli

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

-Dolly Parton


They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

-Tom Bodett


Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

-Albert M. Wells, Jr.

Hope u had a great Holiday! Spring is here! It's time to bloom..."An optimist is the human personification of spring.” S. Bissonette

The Invitation
Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder, May 1994
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure
of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened
by life's betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own without moving to hide it, or fade
it, or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and
let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful,
be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the
accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can
source your life from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the
bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if
you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty
moments...

Humor is positive too.....

Hi!
Today I am going to focus on positive thoughts that are positive because they are funny,
and a chuckle is substantially higher on the positivity scale then a sob or a sniffle.
I think humor is definitely one of the things that has kept me going when the going got toughest.
You may not find all or even any of these particularly amusing, humor is partially a product of experience and outlook, but I hope you read something here that brightens your day...
-Diane


Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
-Elbert Hubbard


My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
-Mitch Hedberg


Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
-Mel Brooks


Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
-E. B. White


A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five.
-Groucho Marx


My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
-Mike Myers


A joke is a very serious thing.
-Winston Churchill



I am not afraid of death, I just don't want
to be there when it happens.
-Woody Allen


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
-Ellen DeGeneres


A word to the wise ain't necessary -
it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-Bill Cosby


As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
-Tracy Ullman


Drawing on my fine command of the English language,
I said nothing.
-Robert Benchley


Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
-P.J. O'Rourke


He would make a lovely corpse.
-Charles Dickens


I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
-Steven Wright


I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize
I should have been more specific.
-Lily Tomlin


I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
-Paula Poundstone


I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
-George Burns


Smoking kills.
If you're killed, you've lost
a very important part of your life.
-Brooke Shields


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
-Ghandi


Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-Mel Brooks


Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
-Irvin S. Cobb


Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
-Tobias Smollet


I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things,
and I have succeeded fairly well.
-Robert Benchley


I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
-Emo Phillips


I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
-Mitch Hedberg


I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
-Carl Sandburg


The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
-Voltaire


We learn from experience
that men never learn anything from experience.
-George Bernard Shaw


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
-Albert Einstein


If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
-C.S. Lewis


Silence is golden but duck tape is silver.
-Anon

Some Inspirational Quotes About Love...

Aside from having to start a new career, I am also trying to heal from an incredibly painful breakup from someone I thought I was going to marry. I am using positive thinking to try and move beyond the trauma, and hopefully get to a point where it doesn't hurt to think of my ex. Here are some more bits of uplifting wisdom, which are love related. I hope you find something here that resonates inside you, or moves you in some way, in a positive direction.
Peace and Love to All,
-Diane

If grass can grow through cement,
Love can find you at every time in your life.
-Cher

Love is composed of a single soul
inhabiting two bodies.
-Aristotle

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-Janos Arnay

The loving are the daring.
-Bayard Taylor

We can only learn to love
by loving.
-Iris Murdoch

It's not love, but lack of love
which is blind.
-Glenway Wescott

The way to love anything, is to realize
that it might be lost.
-G.K. Chesterton

It is in the shelter of each other
that the people live.
-Irish proverb

A man is not where he lives
but where he loves.
-Latin proverb

To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life,
are already three parts dead.
-Bertrand Russell

Love your enemies,
for they tell you your faults.
-Benjamin Franklin

Better to have loved and lost,
then to have never loved at all.
-St Augustine

Love is letting go of fear.
-Gerald Jampolsky

Gravitation cannot be held responsible
for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein

Love doesn't make the world go round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Franklin P. Jones

And think not you can guide the course of love.
For love, if it finds you worthy,
Shall guide your course.
-Kalil Gibran

The only true gift,
is a portion of yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Hope is...an orientation of the heart;
it transcends the world that is
immediately experienced,
and is anchored somewhere
beyond it's horizons.
- Vaclav Havel

A little bit of Jung.....

.My positive thoughts for today are from Carl Jung who was just an amazing human being. There is much wisdom in his words and overall I definitely consider him to be an optimist, despite his knowledge of mankind,lol. As for me, I'm plugging away at my life, got some stuff done, hopefully made some progress, and now.....I'm gonna go to bed and dream sweet dreams.

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves”

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”

All above quotes by:
Carl Gustav Jung

My first post!

As my first post I want to share with you something I recently found that had a profound affect on me. I am no stranger to spirituality, I have studied other cultures and religions since I was a child. Reading this, while the concepts aren't new, reminded me of what I can do to change my life. EVERYTHING. Hope this touches you as well.

All the powers in the universe are already ours.
It is we who have put our hands before our eyes
and cry that it is dark

We are what our thoughts have made us;
so take care what you think.
Words are secondary.
Thoughts live; they travel far.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind;
it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

We reap what we sow.
We are the makers of our own fate.
None else has the blame, none has the praise.
There is no help for you outside of yourself;
you are the creator of the universe.

Like the silkworm,
you have built a cocoon around yourself.
Burst your own cocoon
and come out as the beautiful butterfly,
as the free soul.

Then you will see the truth.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
God sits in the temple of every human body.

-Swami Vivekananda 1863-1902