Positive Holiday Quotes

Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas. ~ William Spencer

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride. ~ Salman Rushdie

In order to be a successful Investor you have to think positive, believe in yourself, and never give up! ~ Monica Breckenridge

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that. ~ Bryan Shelton

We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map of the extreme wealth of poverty. These speaking maps of a new topography will be in fact the first realization of 'human geography.' On them we will replace oil-deposits with the contours of layers of untapped pedestrian consciousness. ~ Tom McDonough

127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words. ~ Ryan Andrew Kinder

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever. Now creating, actualizing one's possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung to from childhood on, and creating new and original forms and ways of living. If one does not do this, one is refusing to grow, refusing to avail himself of his possibilities; one is shirking his responsibility to himself. Hence refusal to actualize one's possibilities brings guilt toward one's self. But creating also means destroying the status quo of one's environment, breaking the old forms; it means producing something new and original in human relations as well as in cultural forms (e.g., the creativity of the artist). Thus every experience of creativity has its potentiality of aggression or denial toward other persons in one's environment or established patterns within one's self. To put the matter figuratively, in every experience of creativity something in the past is killed that something new in the present may be born. Hence, for Kierkegaard, guilt feeling is always a concomitant of anxiety: both are aspects of experiencing and actualizing possibility. The more creati ~ Rollo May

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. ~ Tim Allen

Believe in yourself. You can make it in life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if it cannot be resolved in a positive way, it will never be resolved in the negative way either – you yourself know this property of your heart, and therein lies the whole of its torment. But thank the Creator that he has given you a lofty heart, capable of being tormented by such a torment. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The circumstance of the mind is equivalent to the circumstance of your reality and a pure sign of the justification of the universe. Positive energy equals a positive well being and the manifestation of positive things thereof.
Do you have the wherewithal to be positive? Do you hold the key to your destiny or the barrier to your dismay? Insightful are those with an open ear and an open heart to these principles. Are you on the right track? Whether you say yes or no to this question, your reality is a direct reflection. ~ Will Barnes

The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy. ~ Dalai Lama

When you stay true to yourself, you will never regret the choices that you make. Just know in your heart that you are moving in the right direction. Choosing to live your life based on others' expectations will only hurt your development. It's all about having confidence in yourself and maintaining a positive environment where you can continually grow. ~ Arik Hoover

You can have meaning, accomplishment, engagement and good relationships, even if you are dull on the positive affect side. ~ Martin Seligman

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive? ~ Andrew Clements

Positive life, positive deed. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to travel on your defined path. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn. ~ Iggy Pop

The terms masculine and feminine are
used symmetrically only as a matter of form, as on legal
papers. In actuality the relation of the two sexes is not quite
like that of two electrical poles, for man represents both the
positive and the neutral, as is indicated by the common use of
man to designate human beings in general ; whereas woman
represents only the negative, defined by limiting criteria, without
reciprocity. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing. ~ Nina Hagen

Life can be difficult if all you see is everything that's wrong. Start focusing on what's right, what's good, what's constructive. No matter what you're facing, if you choose a positive mindset, you'll emerge the winner. So if you want to feel better, you've got to think better! ~ Mufti Menk

Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the palm-tree invites it to pitch the tent. Perpetually passing out of himself and his own positive circumstantial condition of being into other hearts and into other conditions, the poet obtains his knowledge of human life by transporting his own life into the lives of others. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Positive thinking won't allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will. ~ Zig Ziglar

The idleness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and languid sea, the uniform sombreness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of these things, within the toil of a mournful and senseless delusion. The voice of the surf now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother. It was something natural, that had its reason, that had a meaning. ~ Joseph Conrad

There are lots of opportunities in limitations, but it takes a positive mindset to recognize them. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? ~ James Madison

Positive thinking, daring life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

STOP setting your mind to see only the negative things in life. Place your settings on positive, then kick back and enjoy it for a while! ~ Timothy Pina

Week 1:
'One hundred percent of positive-ness, will raise us to the point of successful-ness, in reaching our level of human kindness. ~ Ali Marsman

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker. ~ Scott Berkun

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." ~ Washington Gladden

Positive thoughts are the beginning of positive results. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Whenever human beings consciously change their thought vibrations they can change their life. Mantras are the thought vibrations. ~ Amit Ray

Fear is a subject that I have become increasingly aware of - the result of a period that I call post-divorce. Admittedly aware of the general concerns about "falling" too, I am more concerned about the burdens of a non-custodial - the dilemma of parental alienation with absolute liability for financial support. If any 'positive' aspect could be extracted from the non-custodial lifestyle, it is the accelerated-track toward financial distress and familial disparity. What may have occurred in the 1930s in a mass economic-downward spiral of society has similarity to the consequences of the divorce - as I see it. ~ H. Kirk Rainer