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...