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.

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