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Reflecting on Current Events
Sometimes, our life equation is not so simple, especially when current world events weigh on our consciousness and our reality. Here at PositLive, we focus on the things that supersede politics and partisanship. Our focus is instead on common-sense principles. To name a few, we’re all created equal, we must…
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“So far, you’ve survived 100% of your bad days.”
Sometimes it’s hard to simply get through a bad day. But you’ve done it before. You’ve probably done it more times than you can count or remember. This quote (author unclear) serves as a reminder that you’ve made it through 100% of your bad days. Based on that track record,…
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“Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
“Anything that makes you weak–physically, intellectually and spiritually–reject it as poison.”
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
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“The Sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
This quote is from the novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens (1841). It appears as three characters in the story are having a conversation. At first, the attitudes of everyone present are focused on the negatives. Therefore, their conversation is a bit sad and depressing. But in the end, their…
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’.”
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Most of what we do has an impact. In fact, it’s hard to imagine any action that doesn’t make a difference in some way in the long or short term. Maybe, you’re not entirely convinced by this statement. So, let’s consider the act of “doing nothing”. The idea of doing…
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”
“Failure, it appears, is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all.”
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“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
This quote comes from Carter Crocker. He wrote the script for various animated films. This quote is uttered by the character, Christopher Robin, in the film, Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. While it’s from a children’s story, this moment in the film touches on the difficult subject…
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“Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.”
What has to be broken before you can use it? This riddle has a logical and indisputable answer, which is: an egg. An egg must be broken before you can possibly eat it. The same logic is true for an orange, a coconut, etc. The quote, “Sometimes, when things are…
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“Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. And if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
A lot of people have lofty goals but miss a key ingredient in accomplishing them, which is the belief that they actually can and will. If there’s anything that sets us back before we even begin something, it’s not truly believing the goal we’re working toward is possible. This quote,…
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“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’.”
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
This quote, by John Powell, reminds us to see mistakes as learning opportunities. In fact, the biggest mistake is not learning from a mistake. Imagine the person you would be today if none of your past mistakes had taught you a single thing. You most likely wouldn’t have experienced as…
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“A night can never defeat the sunrise.”
Even after the longest night of the year, the sun rises. And even on a dark and cloudy morning when its light can hardly be seen, it still rises. This quote, by Sumit Sharma, serves as a reminder that your darkest and longest days should not stop you from rising…
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
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“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”
You have to live life to become wise. Yes, you can gain wisdom from other people’s lived experiences. But your own lived experiences are where most wisdom comes from. This quote, by Anthony Douglas Williams, helps us consider the fact that living life is a progressive journey in wisdom. This…
